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Ansie van der Westhuizen
Unisa Institutional Repository:
Sharing knowledge to advance research
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Visibility of Unisa scholars worldwide
Open Access to research information globally
More readers and more citations
Long term digital preservation
Self archiving of research outputs
Sharing of learning resources across institutions
Tool for peer reviewing
Agreements with publishers
Visibility of Unisa scholars worldwide
Open Access to research information globally
More readers and more citations
Long term digital preservation
Self archiving of research outputs
Sharing of learning resources across institutions
Tool for peer reviewing
Agreements with publishers
Examples of items in UnisaIR
Who may submit materialWho may submit material??
UNISA employees and postgraduate students on M/PhD-level may submit items to the repository.
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Unisa IR
Groenewald, Thomas A phenomenological research design illustrated. (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(1), pp1-25
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A phenomenological research design illustratedT Groenewald - 2004 - uir.unisa.ac.zaThis article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief
overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of the specific ...Cited by 524 Related articles All 11 versions
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is the version
of an article
before peer
reviewing
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of an article
before peer
reviewing
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The post-print is the peer-reviewed version that has been approved for publication in a journal
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What you should do …
Submit a PDF version of peer-reviewed, post-print versions of your articles
and published conference papers to the UnisaIR
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available
Give Unisa permission to make your articles freely
available
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publishers regulations
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Open Access
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articles.
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http://uir.unisa.ac.zaAnsie van der [email protected]