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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>December 2013 theses/dissertations now available through SUNScholar</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to congratulate all students (and their supervisors) who graduated during December 2013! We wish you all the best with your future research and careers.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The full text theses/dissertations (excl. restricted/embargoed theses/dissertations) for Masters and Doctoral students are now available via SUNScholar (<a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">http://scholar.sun.ac.za</a>). To
access, conduct an <a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za/browse?type=author" target="_blank">
author</a> or <a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za/browse?type=title" target="_blank">
title</a> search. Remember that you can also view usage statistics for your thesis/dissertation – number of views, downloads, and countries it was accessed from.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Important:</i> Please <b><span style="color:#C00000">share</span></b> your research with your network through adding links to the items on
<a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za">SUNScholar</a> to your <span style="color:#C00000">
CV’s</span>, <span style="color:#C00000">web profiles </span>(e.g. LinkedIn, Google profiles),
<span style="color:#C00000">blog, tweet </span>about it, and announce it via <span style="color:#C00000">
facebook/GooglePlus</span>. For inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at
<a href="mailto:scholar@sun.ac.za" target="_blank">scholar@sun.ac.za</a> tel.: 021 808 9046/9139.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Your research will soon be indexed via Google/Google Scholar, and linked from your
<a href="https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations&ei=0EerUsW5OPKd7gbi34Fg&usg=AFQjCNHcgPzRTiqrb437wg_xNvoPCev4YQ&sig2=KNhTCt86xh3yt6hUPqXivw">
Google Scholar Citations</a> profile should you have a Google Scholar profile, e.g.
<a href="http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=wp1rIegAAAAJ&hl=sv">André Young</a>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Speeding up the availability/publishing of research</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One advantage within the open access environment and self-publishing/managing SU research output, is that the publication of research can be accelerated. Two examples, with usage statistics generated:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85551" target="_blank">Promoting social change amongst students in higher education : an evaluation of the listening, living and learning senior student housing programme at Stellenbosch University</a>/
Munita Dunn (December 2013 Graduation, Dept. of Curriculum Studies)<br>
Number of views: 110<br>
Number of full text downloads: 58</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80915" target="_blank">Improving the direction-dependent gain calibration of reflector antenna radio telescopes</a>/ André Young (December 2013 Graduation, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)<br>
Number of views: 414<br>
Number of full text downloads: 169</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thesis & dissertation numbers during the past few years</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below a table with the number of submissions during the past few years (a slight decline in December 2013 compared to December 2012):</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="color:#1F497D">384</span></p>
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602</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Guidelines for submitting your thesis/dissertation to SUNScholar for April 2014</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">According to Stellenbosch University policy, it is mandatory for Masters/Doctoral students completing a thesis/dissertation for graduation purposes, to submit the final copy (i.e. following ethical clearance, reviewing, examination, corrections,
language editing, plagiarism detection etc.) of the thesis/dissertation in electronic format to SUNScholar (<a href="http://scholar.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">http://scholar.sun.ac.za</a>). For guidelines on the nomination process in order to submit, and the
submission process itself, please visit: <b>Library Web</b> (<a href="http://library.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank">http://library.sun.ac.za/</a>) >>
<b>How do I?</b> >> <b>Submit my thesis online. </b>Inquiries can be directed to e-mail
<a href="mailto:scholar@sun.ac.za" target="_blank">scholar@sun.ac.za</a> or tel.: 021 808 9046/9139. Final dates for submission for students graduating during April 2014 and December 2014:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">26 Feb. 2014 for the April graduation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">27 Nov. 2014 for the December graduation</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Applications to have an embargo applied (sensitive theses/dissertations) should be submitted via the Faculty Secretary, to Senate.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With kind regards </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ina (on behalf of the SUNScholar Team)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:black">Ina Smith</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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