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Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Emergency measures for copyright clearance during COVID-19

During the COVID-19 emergency, academic departments are having to adapt their teaching plans, some using work-arounds such as loading a limited number of scanned PDFs, of only key chapters of books, on Vula, as needed. Copyright fees are arranged through the Publishers Liaison Office at UCT.

To aid in this, the Publishers Liaison Office has been able to adopt some very helpful emergency measures to help with the lockdown.

Emergency guidelines for academics

 

Wednesday, 22 April 2020
Free access to UCT Libraries website, Open Journals & OpenUCT on certain mobile networks

Cell C, Telkom, MTN and Vodacom have agreed to zero-rate access to certain UCT websites. This will enable online learning at no cost to students. In addition to the zero rating agreements,UCT has purchased pre-paid data for students.

The following Libraries websites have been zero-rated on certain mobile networks:

  1. The Library website (http://www.lib.uct.ac.za) on Cell C, Telkom, MTN and Vodacom
  2. OpenUCT website (http://open.uct.ac.za) on Telkom and Cell C
  3. UCT open access journals (https://journals.uct.ac.za ) on Vodacom and MTN

A dedicated webpage has been created on the ICTS website that will be updated regularly when and if additional sites are zero-rated.

Please note
Third party links are not zero-rate. If the zero-rated site has a link to another website unfortunately it won’t be zero-rated.
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Free access to resources in response to COVID-19

In response to the disruption caused by COVID-19, many publishers have given us temporary access to their resources. Learn more

Monday, 30 March 2020
Appeal for print newspapers for Special Collections

We need your Help!

UCT Libraries Special Collections want to keep their collections of print newspapers (local, national and community) as complete as possible during the COVID-19 lockdown. Our normal routes of acquisition are closed and uncertain whether publishers will be able to supply back copies.

Our appeal to the University community

Keep any print newspapers that have been delivered/purchased and donate them to Special Collections upon your return to campus.

Newspaper list

The Cape Times, The Argus, The Weekend Argus, Mail & Guardian, The Voice, The Sun, Business Day, all the weekend papers and community newspapers.

Thanking you in advance

Mandy Noble
Principal Librarian: Published Collections
UCT Libraries: Special Collections
mandy.noble@uct.ac.za

Thursday, 30 April 2020
Due date of library material renewed until further notice

In light of the library closure due to COVID-19 and to help you manage your library loans, all library material currently on loan will be renewed until further notice. All fines on overdue materials will be waived.

Please keep the material with you and return it to the library when we are open for business again.

Friday, 28 February 2020
Where is the off-campus login button?

Did you know? You no longer need to use off-campus login to access Libraries resources off-campus.

The off-campus login link has been removed from the UCT Libraries website.

EZProxy has been integrated into links from the following library resources for a seamless library experience.

 You will be prompted to login via UCT's Single Sign-On service when needed.

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