Fine-tuning your research
25 - 29 July 2016
The Library
and Information Service will be presenting its fourth Library Research Week this
year from 25 - 29 July 2016. The aim of the event is to develop the skills and
knowledge of emerging Stellenbosch University researchers and postgraduate students
and to equip them with practical
knowledge of the systematic literature review and copyright issues and
to make them aware of the importance of their research foortprint and of
engaging the public in their research. They will also be introduced to
unique research collections.
PROGRAMME
UNIQUE EXHIBITS
Date:
Monday 25 July until Friday 29 July
Time:
12:15-12:45
Venue:
Special Collections, JS Gericke Library
Description:
These
exhibitions include expeditions and explorations in Antarctica as well
as original diaries, documents and manuscripts of well-known authors.
Come and discover unique maps of the 1600s, a 246-year-old handmade
grandfather clock, Pierneef painting, exceptional books about Southern
Africa and more.
DOMUS,
Music Library, will exhibit on 29 July a unique exhibition on the
Arnold van Wyk collection, to accompany the book talk that will be
presented by Prof Stephanus Muller, author of Nagmusiek.
GUIDED TOURS
Through
the course of the week Special Collections will give guided tours and
exhibit unique collections that are otherwise unavailable to the
public. These unique collections will be on display from Monday until Friday.
OPENING FUNCTION
Date:
Monday 25 July
Time:
16:00-17:00
Venue:
Special Collections, JS Gericke
Library
Guest Speaker:
Prof Brian Huntley
By invitation only
Recording is now available here
Tuesday 26 July: Back to Basics
THE SEMANTICS AND INTRICACIES OF THE SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Date:
Tuesday 26 July
Time:
09:30-10:30
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke
Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1137091
Guest speaker:
Rachel Janse van Rensburg, Acting Research Manager at Stellenbosch University Business School.
Description:
A
systematic literature review is a research design in its own right and
aims to address problems by identifying, critically evaluating and
integrating findings of all relevant, high-quality individual studies
addressing one or more research question.
Recording is now available here
COPYRIGHT CRITERIA TO CONSIDER WHEN WRITING YOUR THESIS
Date:
Tuesday 26 July
Time:
11:00-12:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke
Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1070061
Guest speaker:
Carol Kat, Head: Copyright and Short Courses, Innovus And Commersialisation
Description:
This
presentation provides an overview of the copyright issues which students
typically encounter while working on their theses or dissertations.
Recording is now available here
MENDELEY FOR REFERENCE MANAGEMENT AND ACADEMIC NETWORKING
Date:
Tuesday 26 July
Time:
13:00-14:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke
Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1126484
Presenter:
Yusuf Ras, Faculty Librarian for AgriSciences, Library and Information Service
Description:
This
workshop will introduce you to Mendeley with which references can be
managed. Mendeley offers various services, including reference
management, organising and annotation of PDF documents, collaboration
and academic networking. A quick comparison with other reference managers will also be included.
Wednesday 27 July: Maximising your Research Footprint
THE BENEFITS OF USING ORCID AS YOUR UNIQUE AUTHOR IDENTIFIER
Date:
Wednesday 27 July
Time:
09:30-10:30
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1135632
Guest speaker:
Matthew Buys, ORCID Regional Director, Africa and the Middle East
Description:
Researchers face the ongoing challenge of distinguishing their
research activities from those of others with similar names. They need
to be able to easily and uniquely attach their identity to research
objects such as datasets, equipment, articles, media stories, citations,
experiments, patents, and notebooks. They have to interact with an
increasing number and diversity of research information systems. ORCiD
is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a
registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of
linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.
Recording is now available here
THE PROS AND CONS OF BIBLIOMETRICS IN ACADEMIA
Date:
Wednesday 27 July
Time:
11:00-12:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1135633
Guest speaker:
Prof Conrad Matthee, Department of Botany and Zoology
Description:
Bibliometrics provides information about the size, composition,
diversity and other essential features of an existing research
portfolio. Prof Matthee, Executive Head of the Department of Botany and
Zoology, will introduce us to how bibliometrics is utilised within the
academic context.
Recording now available here
MENDELEY AND MENDELEY DATA
Date:
Wednesday 27 July
Time:
13:00-14:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library (Virtual presentation)
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1135634
Guest speakers:
Dileep
Sharma (Mendeley Marketing Development Director) / Giovanna Bartens
(Marketing Development Manager) / Joe Schell (Mendeley Data Manager)
Description:
An
overview of the whole Mendeley suite will be presented virtually by
different Elsevier and Mendeley staff members. Joe Schell will introduce
Mendeley Data which will include a demonstration and explanation on how
it can impact the research community.
Recording is now available here
Thursday 28 July: Research Communication
ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN YOUR RESEARCH: HAVE YOU GOT THE EDGE?
Date:
Thursday 28 July
Time:
11:00-12:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1126489
Guest speaker:
Marina Joubert, Researcher: Science Communication, CREST
Description:
Engaging public with science
has become more and more important and scientists within academia are
challenged to find ways to engage the public. There are some common
examples of science communication but what does the general public truly
want from academic science communication? How can scientists reach
them? Find out why researchers are getting involved and what benefits
they get from public engagement.
Recording is now available here
THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN MEDICINAL PLANT RESEARCH
Date:
Thursday 28 July
Time:
13:00-14:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1126490
Guest speaker:
Prof Nox Makunga, Botany And Zoology
Description:
Prof Makunga will be sharing
her experiences on how to involve the public in your research and how
this interaction changed her to become a better scientist. “By
communicating my work I hope to inspire other people, grow science in
South Africa and reinforce the message that Africa has a role to play in
the global science space".
Recording is now available here
Friday 29 July: Unique Research Collections Unlocked
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, A SINGLE CONNECTION TO RESEARCH
Date:
Friday 29 July
Time:
11:00-12:00
Venue:
E-classroom, Learning Commons, JS Gericke Library
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1126491
Presenter:
Mimi Seyffert, Manager: Digital Scholarship, Library and Information Service
Description:
Digital collections showcase
digital content from the Library and Information Service’s unique
digital collections and repositories. It offers a single connection
point to various collections of primary resources as well as digital
research output. This initiative forms part of the Library’s commitment
to enriching its digital resources and supporting, developing and
contributing to high-level scholarly publication output.
Recording is now available here
RESEARCH WEEK SOCIAL HOUR: THE UNKNOWN VAN GOGH
Date:
Friday 29 July
Time:
13:00-14:00
Venue:
Staff room, JS Gericke Library, (Brown bag lunch will be served)
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1137092
Guest speaker:
Chris Schoeman, Historian and Author
Description:
This lunch hour talk will be presented by Chris Schoeman, author of the book The unknown Van Gogh.
Much has been written about Vincent van Gogh and his tempestuous
relationship with his brother Theo. But few people know that there was a
third Van Gogh brother, Cornelis, who was raised in the Netherlands,
but worked, married and died in South Africa. He sided with the Boers in
the Anglo-Boer War, first as a railway engineer and later as a commando
in the Free State. Suffering from fever, he ended up in a hospital in
Brandfort in 1900, where he committed suicide by shooting himself, as
had his brother Vincent ten years before. Chris Schoeman’s biography of
Cor van Gogh recreates South Africa in the last decade of the nineteenth
century, tells the personal story of this young uitlander, as revealed
in his letters, and describes his relationship with his famous brother
Vincent.
Recording is now available here
MUSIC LIBRARY SOCIAL HOUR: NAGMUSIEK
Date:
Friday 29 July
Time:
16:00 – 17:00
Venue:
Music Library, Konservatorium (Cheese and wine will be served)
Booking link:
http://sun.ac.za.libcal.com/event.php?id=1137094
Guest speaker:
Prof Stephanus Muller, Music Department
Description:
Prof Stephanus Muller, guest speaker for this event, will present his book Nagmusiek. Nagmusiek
is a startling addition to contemporary South African fiction and
biography. The book is both a scholarly study of the Afrikaans composer
Arnold van Wyk and a work of fiction in which the author/biographer—who
is and is not Stephanus Muller—highjacks his own literary undertaking.
It is an extraordinary meditation on the art of biography, on South
African classical music under the apartheid regime, and on the
complicated relationship between life and fiction. Van Wyk’s musical
composition, for which this book is named, is a ‘modernist poem of loss,
of pain, of flickering memory, of dignified death’. Muller sets out to
explore Van Wyk’s work and in the process creates an epic and
genre-defying work of his own.
Recording is now availalablbe here
For any further enquiries, please
contact the coordinator, Paulette Talliardat plt@sun.ac.za or (021) 808 9046.