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Title Alternative metrics in Africa: An Interview with Cameron Neylon
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2289
Date 2011
Author(s) Willmers, Michelle
Abstract The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) recently hosted Cameron Neylon on his first visit to South Africa for a week of activity and discussion around alternative metrics and research evaluation. Based at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, Neylon is a leading thinker in open science, open access and open data. He is one of the original authors of the Altmetrics manifesto, co-author of the Panton Principles for open data in science, and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Open Research Computation. He visited UCT in his capacity as a member of the SCAP Advisory Panel and to participate in discussions around defining and measuring the impact of academic research ' a core strand central to all SCAP activity. SCAP Research Lead Catherine Kell interviewed him briefly.
Language eng
Publisher University of Cape Town. OpenUCT; University of Cape Town
Type of publication text
Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/; © The author, 2011.; Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa
Repository Cape Town - OpenUCT, University of Cape Town
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