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CPUT LIBRARIES Teaching, Learning& Research Support Platforms

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Good things

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At the heart of technology education in Africa

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ContentsDK: Collection, preservation, and dissemination of CPUT research output 2DMP: Structured online research data management planning 3ETD: Preservation & Dissemination of CPUT Theses and Dissertations 4Figshare/MediaTum: Research Data Management 5OER/OA: Open teaching & learning resources 6OJS: Open journal publishing platform 7ORCID: Make your research discoverable, recognised and visible 8PRIMO: Fast and efficient discovery of Library resources 9To access these platforms just click on the name of the platform

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DMP Tool helps researchers compile a data management plan from the beginning to the end of the project, including:

Data collection; metadata; ethics; legal; storage/backup; collaboration; preservation and more

Data Management Plan

DMP

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With DK content on Scopus, researchers can generate bibliometric reports at the author, journal, article and institutional level. Increases research outputs visibility and academic prestige of the author and the institution.

Digital Knowledge DK

InSTITuTIonaL ReSeaRch RePoSIToRy

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eTD platforms hold full-text Theses and Dissertations submitted at cPuT. enhances the university’s visibility.

Electronic Thesis and Dissertations

eTD’s

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enable academic researchers to store, share, discover research and manage all of their research data output.

offers a platform for storing, accessing and sharing of research data during the active phase of research and ensures the long term preservation of data.

Figshare

MediaTUM

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oeRs are online educational materials that students and lecturers can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and share via a creative commons or open licence.

open access refers to peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature available online at no cost, with stated rights to use them for academic purposes.

Open Educational Resources

Open Access

oeRs

oa

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oJS is a highly flexible editor-operated journal management and publishing system.

oJS covers all aspects of online journal publishing, from establishing a journal website to operational tasks such as the author’s submission process, peer review, editing, publication, archiving, and indexing of the journal.

OpenJournal Systems

oJS

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Provides a persistent researcher’s digital identifier that• Avoidsmisidentification• iDislinkedtoallresearchactivities• Researchersmanagetheirpublicationoutput• Scholarlyworkcaneasilybediscovered• Researchersidentifypotentialcollaborators

ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor iD

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allows users to retrieve information from a variety of different types of resources provided by the library using a single search.

users sign-on to PRIMo Ve using their cPuT login details and can access any of the resources on or off campus.

PRIMO

LIBRARy RESEARCh SUPPORT

Janine Lockhart Senior Librarian: Research Support

lockhartj@cput.ac.za

Veliswa Tshetsha Librarian: Research

tshetshav@cput.ac.za

http://www.cput.ac.za/lib

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