
SANLiC 2017 Conference
Disruption in the Library, the Laboratory, the Classroom …
Venue: Coastlands Hotel; Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa
The global struggle for access to material and intellectual resources for the production of knowledge is intensifying. Consequently, the open access movement, embodied in initiatives like Open Access 2020 and SPARC, is gaining momentum over the subscription model as the benefits to society of opening access to research outputs and educational materials become increasingly self-evident. Increasingly, research and academic institutions, whether by choice or force of circumstance, are walking away from publisher deals based on the subscription model.
Against this backdrop, the South African Higher Education sector is in crisis and disruption. The South African bill of rights in the South African Constitution (1996) states that everyone has the right to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible. Instead, the opposite is happening due to progressive under-funding by the state and global forces including increased inflation. The reality is that higher education and the production of knowledge is becoming progressively unavailable and inaccessible.
While the sector strives to get back on track, this conference will assist library and information practitioners to make sense of developments, hone skills and develop strategies to deal with the disruption.
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Conference Presentations

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Ralf is past chair of the SCOAP3 governing council and is currently the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in particle physics and project manager for ‘Open Access 2020’, the Max Planck-initiated Open Access transformation initiative. He also serves on a variety of national and international committees and is a frequent member of the library advisory boards of publishers.
Open Access 2020: a global initiative to drive large-scale transformation of the subscription system
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The power of community: SCOAP3 and its success in flipping journals in high-energy physics
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Shifting from mandates for our researchers to a mandate for our money: a practical approach of OA2020
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The Liège model of Green Open Access mandate: a success story, and then what?
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Open Access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovation
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Open Access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovation
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Decolonizing the University in South Africa: the role of research publication
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Africa embracing Open Science and Open Data
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Open publishing: a social justice imperative for Africa
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NMMU Library and Information Services support for Open Access
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Open Access and SPARC Africa
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Adriana will share insights as a researcher, inspire delegates and remind the conference why, despite the disruption, it is an exciting time in the four billion year history of life on Earth to be alive! Adriana will speak at the gala dinner via a live feed from New York.
Watch this Space
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South African Law perspective on Electronic Resource Licenses
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He has been in the library profession for 16 years with some years spent at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg. April is a visionary leader, action oriented and a change agent. Strategic management, quality, project management and customer experience in academic libraries are his areas of specialty. He has done research on customer needs, market research and library impact or value in higher education institutions. He believes that any organisation exists to add value and without “value add”; the organisation naturally ceases to exist.
Information Resource Strategy During the Dry Seasons
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He is an Accredited Labour Mediator, a part-time Senior Commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Practitioner with a number of Public and Private Sector Bargaining Councils and Dispute Resolution Agencies. William conducts training and other processes for the CCMA, Bargaining Councils and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the SADC Region and he is also attached to a number of South African Universities where he lectures and presents courses on Conflict Management, Labour Dispute Resolution and Negotiation and Mediation Skills.
Negotiation Skills
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She obtained a BA Library Science degree at UOFS in 1974 and an Information Science honours degree at the University of Stellenbosch in 2001. Her career started in 1975 at the Bloemfontein Public Library. She switched to academic libraries in 1989 and moved to the UK in 2003 where she worked in academic libraries and the Natural History Museum in London.
What do we need to build a successful knowledge base?
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With the recent implementation of the Library’s Encore Duet Discovery Service this also includes the implementation and accessibility of the library’s e-resources knowledgebase within the EBSCO EDS. Dorette holds a B.Bibl (Hons) from the University of Pretoria and is a long-standing member of LIASA.
What do we need to build a successful knowledge base?
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Whilst primarily focused on identity federation, his role at TENET has expanded to include a number of trust and identity services. Prior to joining TENET he was Rhodes University’s IT Operations Manager, and was also involved in the technical operations of the SEALS library consortium.
Identity federation: A new way to manage access to resources
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The Future of Information
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Visibility through Google Scholar
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As one of the first participants of the Carnegie Research Library Consortium in 2007 she visited the United States in 2008. This was followed by the creation of a new post in the library and her appointment as Manager: Research Support services. She is currently overseeing the management of the two libraries in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, the two libraries in the Faculty of Science, the Research Commons and Data Management Services. She maintains close collaboration with the Research Office in the field of research performance evaluation and bibliometrics. Her main interest lies within the many opportunities and challenges of research support in libraries and has presented at local and international conferences.
Usage Statistics: Reading between the Lines
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Caroline Dean is currently Acting Deputy Director: Technical Services at UCT Libraries. She moved to this temporary role in March 2017 from her post as Acquisitions Manager, a position she has held since July 2013.
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Prior roles include Electronic Resources Librarian (June 2000 to September 2013) and manager of the Commerce Information Services Section (August 2007 to July 2011). Her library career started out in the UCT Health Sciences Library where she occupied various roles between December 1991 and mid-2000. She is a member of the Sabinet Library Products Advisory Committee: Reference and Collection Development and EBSCO’s Asia, Africa and Oceania Academic Advisory Board.
Unbundling the “Big Deal”
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Joyce Myeza is the Library Director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She holds a Master of Science degree in LIS from Simmons College, Boston MA, and is currently registered for a Doctorate in Business Administration at Bath University, United Kingdom.
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During her more than 20 years working in libraries Joyce has worked as a cataloguer, subject librarian and in library management. She is passionate about libraries and has served on a number of committees in LIS associations both in South Africa and in the United States. The recipient of several awards, Joyce is also a published author and recently collaborated with Professor Franco Frescura to compile the Illustrated Glossary of Southern African Architectural Terms: English – IsiZulu, published by UKZN Press.
Unbundling the “Big Deal”
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Currently he is occupied with tying acquisitions to research output, to provide for better insights into content value. With almost 20 years of international experience in the information industry, Nels has held positions with Munksgaard Intl. Publishers, Blackwell Publishing, Swets and most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for LM Information delivery, before starting his own company.
ConsortiaManager and Workflows
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Vendor Presentations
Here are the YouTube links to the vendor presentations:
- Scopus: Safeguarding against predators
Lucia Schoombee, Elsevier - ACS Publications overview 2017 – update, and OA initiatives
Alastair Cook, ACS publications - ScienceDirect Topic Pages – solutions to face an age of information overload
Joe Hayton, Elsevier - A world of company information!
Anton Luckhoff, Bureau van Dijk - Emerald, the first 50 years (1967-2017): our future, our passion: bringing research to life
Sibu Zondi, Emerald - A ProQuest combination presentation:
1) The Best of Alexander Street Video and Historical Collections from ProQuest in 10 Minutes!
Greg Judelson, ProQuest
2) Strategic e-book acquisition in partnership with ProQuest
Jessica Porter, ProQuest - E-resources @ World Scientific Publishing
Nthako Zondi, RegExpress - “Publish or Perish” still holds true: Access Nobel Prize winning e-books on Oxford Scholarship Online through EBA
Ahmad Inchassi, Oxford University Press
USAf and SANLiC Pre-Conference Workshop
Monday 22 May 2017 (12:00 – 17:00)
Venue: Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel
Title: OA2020 – initiative for the large-scale transformation of the subscription system
(Leveraging the power of institutional budgets and research outputs to secure the economic benefits of Open Access)
Exhibitors
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Registered exhibitors in stand number order:
- WorldWide Information Services
- ProQuest
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library
- EBSCO Information Services
- Wiley
- De Gruyter
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- CABI
- Gale, A Cengage Company
- Burgundy Information Services
- Elsevier
- Brill
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Springer Nature
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- IOP Publishing
- OverDrive
- The Royal Society, London
- SAGE Publishing
- Erasmus Boekhandel
- Thieme Publishing Group
- Dawson Books
- LM Information Delivery SA
- Emerald Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Bureau van Dijk, Africa
- American Chemical Society
- Universal Knowledge Software
- Oxford University Press
- RegExpress/ World Scientific Publishing
- Van Schaik Bookstore
Sponsors
Sponsor |
Sponsorship |
American Chemical Society |
Gala Dinner Guest Speaker |
Clarivate Analytics |
Lanyards and Nametags |
Dorrington Jessop Inc |
National Speaker |
Max Plank Society Digital Library |
Keynote Speaker |
Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology |
Gala Dinner Beverages |
TENET |
National Speaker |
Wolters Kluwer |
Delegate Sponsorships |