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Education: Humanities Education: Publishing Support

Introduction

The Open Scholarship Programme provides services that support the research-intensive needs of the research, teaching and learning communities at the University of Pretoria.

What is ‘Open Scholarship’? The term embraces open access and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment.

The following services are provided:

Making your thesis into a book

Researchers are often approached to consider publishing a thesis as a book.

If you intend to publish your thesis in this way, permission must be requested from the registrar with the consent of the supervisor, the head of department and the dean of the faculty, for the copyright to be ceded to the student in order to publish the thesis as a book.

PLEASE NOTE! The copyright to theses and dissertations done at UP belongs to the University (see section 4.6 in the Policy on Electronic Theses and Dissertations):

4.6. The University of Pretoria is the copyright holder of all its theses and dissertations. A request for copyright to be ceded to the student can be made after graduation. A recommendation to this effect should be made to the Intellectual Property Legal Advisor in the Department of Research and Innovation and should be with the consent of the supervisor, the head of the department and the dean of the faculty. The University retains the right to archive the electronic version of such a thesis or dissertation on UPSpace (Institutional Repository).

According to this policy, the University reserves the right to archive an electronic copy of the thesis/dissertation in the University's repository system (UPSpace). The Library keeps an electronic copy of each thesis/dissertation done at UP and it cannot be removed from the system. Authors who wish to embargo the full text must submit to the library a written instruction from the head of department and the dean of the faculty stipulating the reason to do so.

Postgraduate Students, be aware of the predatory publishers who send complimentary emails inviting and offering authors of new theses and dissertations to publish their theses into a book. Avoid these predatory publishers and always check if they are listed in the accredited lists. 

Research Visibility

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Ways to increase visibility, impact, and citations of your published research 

New ways of communicating scientific discoveries through open science platforms also known as academic profile platforms have emerged for storing, publishing, and disseminating research findings.  Researchers as well as research institutions embrace open access and make research as accessible and as open as possible to increase visibility and impact. 

What do these research(er) profiling tools do?

In the submission of annual progress reports, data on journal impact factors, citation scores, accumulative citations, article-level metrics, author-level metrics including altmetrics that quantify social media attention received by scientific work is extracted from Scopus, Web of Science,Dimensions, and other profiling tools (Baheti & Bhargava, 2017). 

Visibility of who?

  • Researcher
  • Research
  • Supervised work
    • Masters (thesis/dissertations, datasets, articles…)
    • Doctoral (thesis/dissertations, datasets, articles...)
    • Step 4 in the Thesis / Dissertation guidelines provide steps on how to improve thesis/dissertation visibility and impact  
  • Co-authors and their co-authors…
  • See how other researchers have profiled their scholarly work
  • Go through the Research(er) Visibility Check and spend some time updating your profile

 

Transformative agreements

Transformative / Read & Publish (R&P) Agreements

Publish articles open access for free!

This guide provides an overview of the Read and Publish Agreement Negotiated by the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC). SANLiC has signed a number of agreements for South African Higher Education Institutions. The list of current negotiated agreements is now available allowing South Africans to publish in Gold Open Access journals. 

The Department of Library Services (DLS) is also part of the SANLiC agreements and has recently signed the Transformative Agreements (TAs) also known as Read and Publish (R&P) agreement with Wiley, Emerald, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publishers. Journals in the R&P agreement are listed in the alphabetical title list.

The DLS currently supports researchers with Article Processing Charges (APCs) also known as publication fees. These APCs and R&P agreements are efforts to advance open science practices and to increase Gold Open Access Publishing at the University of Pretoria.

Eligibility:

Authors from participating institutions are eligible for Open Access publishing in the alphabetical list from the R&P agreements. Authors at the University of Pretoria can publish for free in these journals. Non-accredited journals will not be supported through the R&P agreement. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Where to start?

Proceed to Wiley's, Emerald, and ACM author resources below