Current Awareness Archive: Aug14

Current awareness is the term used to describe staying informed by keeping up to date with the latest publications, research and news in your field.

The perspective of current awareness is the present and the forthcoming, as opposed to the retrospective. 

Current awareness ranges from looking for information on specific topics on a regular basis (and this usually involves the assistance of your Personal Librarian to help you set up your search profile) to embracing a wider, more general, and cross-disciplinary view that brings an element of serendipity into your search for the latest information.

Informally, researchers remain alert in all contexts for useful information and insights that will inform their daily practice, their research and spark off innovative and creative ideas for new avenues of research.

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Websites of the Month

August 2014's websites of the month are :

• The 8 dimensions explained
• International Youth Day 2014

The year is marked with many special days, weeks, and months dedicated and devoted to raising awareness about important issues.

This monthly post will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.

August is Women's Month  in South Africa

Selected Noteworthy Days in August 2014

• August: Organ Donor Month
• 1 Aug: Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane delivers a paper on SA’s tenure as Chair of BRICS, Pretoria, South Africa
• 1 Aug: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa travels to Nouakchott, Islamic Republic of Mauritania
• 9 Aug: National Women's Day (South Africa)
• 9 Aug: International Day of the World's Indigenous People
• 12 Aug: International Youth Day
• 15 Aug-15 Oct: Bone Marrow Donation and Leukaemia Awareness Month
• 31 Aug: African Traditional Medicine Day

• What is the risk of catching Ebola on a plane?
• 15,000 flee after Boko Haram overtakes Nigerian
• U.S., EU coordinate on Russia sanctions, but will they work?
• Swimmers do South Africa proud
• Clean audits for just 9% of SA's municipalities
• Electricity in South Africa - research report

• Quake shakes South Africa

The Current Awareness Archive is arranged first by month, in descending chronological order.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.

If you are looking for 2014's forthcoming conferences, the following websites are helpful:

• National Research Foundation's Forthcoming Conferences page

• AllConferences

• Conference Alerts

This month's Golden Oldie publication is the following article :

Bitso, Constance. Internet censorship in South Africa: a brief exposé of negative and positive trends. South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol 80, No 1 (2014)