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Unisa LIS digital collection (items)
10 297
Unisa LIS digital collection (access)
40 164
Personal librarians
16
Through the Unisa LIS’s partnership with the Committee of Higher Education Libraries of South Africa (CHELSA), postgraduate master’s and doctoral students are able to access libraries of participating institutions of higher learning. When a Unisa student wishes to use the library and information services of another university library, it is necessary for the student to obtain a signed standard letter of introduction from the Executive Director: Library and Information Services, and to present this letter to the head of the hosting university library for approval.
Improving collaborations with public and private enterprises
Public library partnerships
30
Department of Correctional Services
1
Collaborative library (Unisa, Walter Sisulu and Fort Hare)
1
CHELSA agreement – interlibrary loans supplied to other institutions
757
Unisa LIS is a signatory of the Berlin Open Access Declaration and seeks to make information resources available without barriers to access. We provide the following open access digital collections, increase visibility of Unisa research output, and provide access to unique digitised archival and heritage collections.
IMPROVING UNISA’S GLOBAL IMPACT THROUGH OPEN ACCESS
Transformative agreements
Number of agreements: 11
Provides access to over 10 000 journals
226 research articles published through transform- ative agreements
Institutional Repository (UnisaIR)
26 540 items
5 290 articles
12 019 ETDs
Gold open access e-books
292 069
Gold open access e-journals
44 887
Unisa digital collections (items)
10 297
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