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Ansie van der Westhuizen

Unisa Institutional Repository:

Sharing knowledge to advance research

http://uir.unisa.ac.za

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Benefits for research and tuition

Visibility of Unisa scholars worldwide

Open Access to research information globally

More readers and more citations

Long term digital preservation

Self archiving of research outputs

Sharing of learning resources across institutions

Tool for peer reviewing

Agreements with publishers

Visibility of Unisa scholars worldwide

Open Access to research information globally

More readers and more citations

Long term digital preservation

Self archiving of research outputs

Sharing of learning resources across institutions

Tool for peer reviewing

Agreements with publishers

Examples of items in UnisaIR

Who may submit materialWho may submit material??

UNISA employees and postgraduate students on M/PhD-level may submit items to the repository.

 

Unisa IR workflow

SubmitSubmit

ReviewReview

Edit metadataEdit metadataAvailable on Unisa

IRAvailable on Unisa

IR

PreparePrepare

Research materialsResearch materials

General statistical overview

Views per college

Impact on online visibility

Unisa IR

Groenewald, Thomas A phenomenological research design illustrated. (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(1), pp1-25

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A phenomenological research design illustratedT Groenewald - 2004 - uir.unisa.ac.zaThis article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief

overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of the specific ...Cited by 524 Related articles All 11 versions

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Dealing with copyright

• All items protected by copyright• Various types /levels apply• Not allowed to submit versions of articles

downloaded from subscription based databases to UnisaIR unless open access

• Permission should be requested • Sherpa ROMEO website for copyright

regulations and self archiving policies

Pre-print, post-print, and published version of an article

Published version Published version

The pre-print

is the version

of an article

before peer

reviewing

The pre-print

is the version

of an article

before peer

reviewing

The post-print is the peer-reviewed version that has been approved for publication in a journal

The post-print is the peer-reviewed version that has been approved for publication in a journal

Examples of incorrect submissions

What you should do …

Submit a PDF version of peer-reviewed, post-print versions of your articles

and published conference papers to the UnisaIR

Give Unisa permission to make your articles freely

available

Give Unisa permission to make your articles freely

available

Retain your copyright

What the library will do …

Assess the submissionAdhere to the

publishers regulations

Manage embargoes

Manage and preserve

Provide online access

Support and guidance

Open Access

• Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal

articles.

• Gold Open Access – publish in OA journals• Green Open Access – OA repository e.g.

UnisaIR

Open Access Publishers and other resources

http://uir.unisa.ac.zaAnsie van der Westhuizenwatkiapj@unisa.ac.za