Laura Czerniewicz & Eve Gray's presentation from 27 Oct, OA week at UCT.

Lovely poster:)

Shihaam Donnelly's presentation from 25 October, Open Access Week event

Write a novel in a month using NaNoWriMo for November National Novel Writing Month

"As hyperbolic as it may sound, academic publishing is the curator and guardian of the accumulated scientific knowledge of the human race, 1600 to present. It is also a cornerstone of modern science, preferentially selecting well-executed research through the peer review process. However, academic libraries are facing decreasing budgets, and even highly ranked universities are having to cut back on journal subscriptions. Since these subscriptions account for up to 75 percent of publishers' revenues, the entire system is feeling the pressure of the economic crisis..."

 OER@UCT blog serves as a reflection and collaboration point for staff involved with Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town.

The Virtual Museum (VM) provides the platform for citizen scientists to contribute to biodiversity projects.  This innovative concept was developed by the Animal Demography Unit. For many people, a "museum" is a place to see stuffed animals on display. But the ADU's Virtual Museum is not like this. The scientific part of a museum contains collections of specimens, frequently large numbers of specimens of the same species from different parts of the range, all carefully preserved and labelled with the date and place where they were collected. The ADU's Virtual Museum is like this, except that instead of specimens in draws or bottles, we have digital photographs arranged in a database.

example of a Citizen Science blog, Cornell Lab or Ornithology