Educational Technology & Mobile Learning

A list of 16 Websites every teacher should know about!

Research Week @ Rhodes University Library, 8-12th May, 2017

Scholarly communication & researcher profiles

Please find the link below for scholarly communication and researcher profiles:

http://www.slideshare.net/mufs/using-social-media-to-support-develop-and-enhance-your-research?qid=4e95eb49-93e6-4c6e-b8c3-634791c9413d&v=&b=&from_search=2

Step-By-Step Guide for Setting Up "My Library Account"

CHERTL Arts Archive

CHERTL Arts Archive
This Archive provides an alternative space to explore the complexities of lived experience(s) in higher education, and extend the imaginative, expressive, empathetic and projective possibilities of such engagement. Thus the ‘texts’ here include literature (popular fiction, non-fiction, novels and short stories etc), film, TV series, music, plays and visual art. You may contribute to and/or borrow from this archive. Operating much like a book club, a growing selection of these can be borrowed for a period of time and then returned, or simply information accessed from this site.

Models of the PhD

A Literature Review on Models of the PhD by Johann Louw & Johan Muller:

http://tinyurl.com/zftuunz

International Open Access Week

Getting published: What distinguishes a good manuscript from a bad one?

Getting published: What distinguishes a good manuscript from a bad one?

This is one of various "Quick Guides" in the Elsevier Publishing Campus resources section. They are free to download and are also available in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.

About Elsevier Publishing Campus
The Elsevier Publishing Campus is an online platform offering free lectures, interactive training and professional advice. Perhaps you are interested in writing a journal article or submitting a book proposal; learning how to conduct peer review for a high impact journal; understanding research and publishing ethics or writing a successful grant application, whatever it may be we have the resources to help you achieve your goals.

Improving publishing skills of young academics

 

Author Seminar

11^th of August 2015

13:00 – 16:00

Rhodes University, Rhodes Library,

Xstrata Training Room, Level 2

Presented by: Dr. Luaine Bandounas

Elsevier, in collaboration with the Rhodes University, are pleased to invite you to attend an Rhodes Elsevier Seminar "Strategies to increase the quality and the impact of scientific publications".

The objective of this Seminar is to introduce young researchers to a series of guidelines which will allow them to direct their academic works, obtain a basic methodology and learn some stylistic resources which are necessary to develop a good research article, according to the criteria required by the majority of national and international academic journals. The speaker will share her experiences and proposals about the processes of editing and publishing articles, which will hopefully contribute to improve the quality and visibility of the scientific production. For a complete bio about the speaker please visit her page on LinkedIn

Come and learn about:

•  How to get published in a scholarly journal.
•  How to be a great reviewer.
•  Journal metrics and all there is to know.
•  Research and publish your findings ethically.

Please logon to our registration link and register yourself to ensure receiving your certificate of attendance 

Survey link will be sent to the registered participants after the workshop 

More free online resources available for early career researchers:

www.elsevier.com/earlycareer

Searching Databases by subject or the A-Z Databases via the library homepage?

Wanting to search using specific electronic databases?

Please note that the Databases by Subject and Databases A-Z links have been moved from Quick Links (on the left hand side of the library home page) to the Search and Find tab in the tool bar at the top of this page.

Oxford Scholarship Online

 













Oxford Scholarship Online provides access to the full-text of over 10,000 academic works in 20 subject areas, covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine and law. With its inclusion in the wider University Press Scholarship Online platform, users are opened up to additional subject areas, including Archaeology, Anthropology, Film, Television, and Radio, and Society and Culture, helping to broaden users' research horizons.

11,312 books... 20 subject modules... over 400 subdisciplines... over 170,000 illustrations... over 300,000 equations... over 95, 000 chapters... over 8,900 authors... over 2,000,000 pages

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly-expanding research library,  and has grown to be one of the leading academic research resources in the world. Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law, providing quick and easy access to award-winning Oxford University Press scholarship. Launched in 2003 with four subject modules, Oxford Scholarship Online is now available in 20 subject areas. Rhodes University subscribes to the following subject areas:

Free Access to All Palgrave Macmillan Journals in March!

Palgrave Macmillan Journals 

Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher for scholarship, research and professional learning. Palgrave Macmillan publishes monographs, journals, reference works and professional titles, online and in print. With a focus on humanities and social sciences, Palgrave Macmillan offers authors and readers the very best in academic content whilst also supporting the community with innovative new formats and tools.

Free Trial Access to Rhodes Users from 02 March to 31^st March 2015

RefWorks Workshops in the 4th Term

RefWorks workshops are offered in the Library Xstrata Training Room (Level 2) from 11 September to 30 October, see the remaining dates & times below. The workshops are open to all registered staff and students, but limited to 26 participants per session. 
Reserve your place online by selecting the relevant date on the online calendar.
RefWorks is a web-based research management service, similar in function to products such as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.
With RefWorks, you can:
•    Access research information online, from any browser
•    Organize your information in one convenient place
•    Generate correctly formatted bibliographies in virtually any style, in seconds
•    Import references from diverse information sources
•    Manage all types of source content—not just bibliographic data

Wed 9 Oct, 13h00 – 14h00
Wed 23 Oct, 13h00 – 14h00
Wed 30 Oct, 13h00 – 14h00

South Africa & African research at your fingertips!

Need to find African research and information?
Sabinet’s SAePublications database and African Journal Archive provides access to the full-text of several hundred publications.

RefWorks Workshops 2014

RefWorks workshops will be offered in the Library Xstrata Training Room (Level 2) once a month from 28 May to 15 October, see dates & times below. The workshops are open to all registered staff and students, but limited to 26 participants per session.

Reserve your place online by selecting the relevant date on the online calendar.

RefWorks is a web-based research management service, similar in function to products such as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.
With RefWorks, you can:
•    Access research information online, from any browser
•    Organize your information in one convenient place
•    Generate correctly formatted bibliographies in virtually any style, in seconds
•    Import references from diverse information sources
•    Manage all types of source content—not just bibliographic data.

Ask Us!

If you have questions, we've got answers!

 

Ask Us, available via the Library Webpage or Education/Higher Education LibGuide, allows you to search for answers to previous questions, or ask a new question! There are also options to view featured answers, most popular answers and most recent answers.

LibAnswers combines real-time chat service with email reference, and an ever-growing knowledge base to ensure patrons get answers they need - wherever, whenever! Questions and answers include general information about the library, technical questions and research type questions.

Take a look at the suggestions as you type in the Ask Us box to see if there is a match to your question or browse by popular topics. We will respond to your question within 1 working day (Monday - Friday).

Please note that your questions and our answers may be made public to assist other users of the Library's services.  All personal information will be removed from questions to retain privacy.

Open Access week, 21-27 October 2013

Rhodes University Open Access event: 24 October 2013 (see invitation below)

What is Open Access?         
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.
OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers.
There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories.

Facilities for postgraduate students at Rhodes Library

Postgraduate Commons - Library level  

The Postgraduate Commons is designed to be a scholarly workplace for Honours, Masters and PhD students at Rhodes University. This library facility accommodates 80 students at high-end computer workstations, in worktables, study booths and group study rooms on comfortable seating. The facility caters for all postgraduate students in a colourful and spacious environment.

Research Commons - Library level 2

The Research Commons has been designed as a scholarly common room for senior postgraduate students and academics. It is located on level 2 of the Rhodes University Library, beyond the Science and Pharmacy Faculty hub, and is open, via access control, to academic and research staff, postdocs and postgraduate students at masters and doctoral level. Experienced library staff members assist users’ information needs and arrange consultations with subject specialists if needed. The facility overseen by a post-graduate student assistants after office hours.

Inter-Library Loan services at RUL

The Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of South Africa recognizes that individual academic libraries in South Africa cannot afford to hold all the resources that will be needed by their institution’s researchers.  At the same time, it is the vision of all academic libraries to provide ready access to information resources for their users.  Therefore it becomes the mission of the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to provide ready access to the materials that the Rhodes Library does not hold for its researchers, academic staff and postgraduate students by co-operating to share library resources efficiently and effectively with other libraries.





RHODES UNIVERSITY LIBRARY






As the Library has made an enormous financial investment in both its print resources and the access that it provides to online scholarly journals and e-books, it is important that these items are not requested on ILL.  Therefore, before submitting an ILL request, users should first check

1)       the Rhodes University catalogue (OPAC)    

2)      the Cory Library

3)       A-Z e-titles via SFX (a listing of full text electronic journals available to Rhodes users) to ensure that the item is not held locally. 

Once it has been established that the item is not available at Rhodes, it can be requested on ILL by filling in the appropriate form

1)      electronically (via the ILL link on the OPAC web page)

OR

2)       manually by using the forms available at the Loans desk on Level 1.

Points to Note:

i)                    Before users can request ILL material electronically, they must first register with the library on OPAC and create a log-in pin.

ii)                   The ILL process is governed by the CHELSA (Committee for Higher Education Libraries in South Africa) agreement, an agreed set of criteria and standards to regulate inter-lending between institutions.  This being said, the lending conditions are determined by the lending library.  In the case of books, the return date of the item must be adhered to as the system depends entirely on the co-operation of others.  Renewal is possible in some cases and this should be discussed with the ILL staff member. 

iii)                 At Rhodes University Library the postage costs of ILL material are charged to the requester.  At present the cost is R 20.00 per item for loaned items (books, theses etc.) and 50c per page (with R1.00 service charge) for items that need to be printed.  PDFs of items are forwarded to the requester free of charge.

iv)                  Original periodicals are almost never available for loan.  Instead a photocopy of the article is supplied.  As mentioned earlier, with regard to locally obtained articles, requesters are expected to pay for the photocopy of the article supplied with the addition of a small service charge.  Articles which are not available in South Africa can be requested from overseas, although this is an expensive option.   Overseas requests should be discussed with the ILL staff member.

v)                  Non-South African theses which are not held in South Africa may be purchased by the requester.  The ILL staff member should be contacted for more information about how these theses may be obtained.

vi)                 It should be noted that some books are not available for loan such as reference materials or rare items. 

vii)               Provided that the requested item is on the shelf at the holding library, the average turnaround time for books and articles sent by mail is 10 – 14 days.  Articles sent by Ariel or PDF should arrive within 3 to 5 days.  The average turnaround time for overseas requests is 14 – 30 days. 

Whenever you are unable to locate an article or book at Rhodes University

– remember to try Inter-Library Loans!!

Subject Guide for Education Department

A Subject or LibGuide is a customized electronic guide that Rhodes University Library created to support students with their research. LibGuide is accessible from anywhere and at anytime. The link to LibGuide is available via RU Library webpage under Resources or via OPAC.

Please find below the link to Education Subject Guide:

http://ru.za.libguides.com/content.php?pid=299046 (for Higher Education)

http://ru.za.libguides.com/content.php?pid=299085 (for Education)