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The history, deployment, and future of institutional repositories in public universities in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)
This paper investigates the history, deployment, and content of institutional repositories (IRs) in public universities in South Africa. Some of the local, national and international drivers and enablers that ensure the ...
The linguistic-cultural impact of the institutional repository of North-West University, South Africa
(Archlib & Information Services, 2018)
This paper analyses the content of the North West University Institutional Repository (NWU-IR), also known as Boloka - a term that means “to save” in the Setswana language. The paper uses the documents hosted by Boloka to ...
A university library’s use of social media during a time of crisis
(Emerald Insight, 2017)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight how North Western University (NWU) Library used Facebook and Twitter to inform, educate and communicate with library users during the students’ protests #FeesMustFall ...
Open for 24 hours”: lessons learnt from the North-West University library services
(Unisa Press, 2017)
This article reports on the lessons learnt by the Library Services of the North-West University
(NWU), Mafikeng Campus in North-west province, South Africa, with regard to extending
library opening hours for 24 hours ...
Interlending Services : trends, languages, and use for collection development at North-West University
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis group), 2017)
This paper uses the bibliometrics methods to analyse the interlending service trends, language and collection development at the North-West University. The results show that despite some challenges, ILS services at the NWU ...
In/gratitude? Library acknowledgement in theses and dissertations at a distinguished African university
(Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal), 2020)
Giving credit to where it is due is common across cultures. In research, researchers widely express their gratitude to those who would have contributed to their studies in one way or the other under the acknowledgements ...
An analysis of interlibrary loan services : a case study of a university in South Africa
(Emerald Insight, 2018-11)
Purpose – The landscape of teaching, learning and research has changed requiring the need for diverse information resources. Given the current
budgetary constraints and financial conditions prevailing in many universities, ...
Data sharing practices among researchers at South African Universities
(Data Science Journal, 2019)
Research data management practices have gained momentum the world over. This is due to increased demands by governments and other funding agencies to have research data archived and shared as widely as possible. This paper ...
Students’ perceptions of librarians as teachers of information literacy at a large African university
(Emerald insight, 2020)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine the students’ perceptions of librarians as teachers of
information literacy at the North-West University in South Africa.
Design/methodology/approach – The study used ...
Media as a scholarly source of information : citations for legal theses and dissertations
(Sajlis, 2022)
This study sought to determine the citation of media sources by law students in South Africa. Data were gathered from theses and dissertations of selected law schools in the country using specifically designed excel ...