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Introduction

• This wiki page has links and information of academic interest.
• Also check the open education help page.

Campus Financial System

• Tera Term Setup

Library Help

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenCampus
• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/LIS/Student_Help/Library

Thesis Catalogs

• http://scholar.sun.ac.za
• http://ar1.sun.ac.za
• http://www.netd.ac.za
• http://www.phddata.org

Thesis References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
• http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information
• http://www.fauskes.net/nb/bibtools
• http://mahbub.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/comparison-of-free-bibliographic-managers
• http://www.zotero.org
• http://jabref.sourceforge.net
• http://refbase.sourceforge.net
• http://www.docear.org

Citations

• http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/
• http://www.citeulike.org
• http://www.pybliographer.org
• https://launchpad.net/referencer
• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Research_Article_Metrics

Research Funding

• http://nexus.nrf.ac.za

Conferences

• http://conferences.sun.ac.za
• http://www.berlin10.org

Online Open Access South African Journals

• http://www.journals.ac.za
• http://aj1.sun.ac.za
• http://www.aosis.co.za
• http://www.scielo.org.za
• http://www.ajol.info

Open Access

• http://oa.sun.ac.za

Journal Articles

• http://www.iloveubuntu.net/access-pubmed-google-scholar-and-jstor-unity-academic-lens

Local Offices

• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Stellenbosch_University/Research_Office
• http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/Stellenbosch_University/Postgraduate_and_International_Office

LibreOffice

• LibreOffice in Academia

LaTeX

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

• The program kile can be used to edit LaTeX files.
• Some templates for thesis's are here: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/LaTeX

Mathematics

• Sagemath

Computing Clusters

For info about possible computing clusters send an email to Christiaan Brand or ask around the ESL laboratory in the E&E building.

• http://www.chpc.ac.za
• http://www.sanren.ac.za
• http://www.eduroam.org
• http://www.eu-emi.eu

Links

• http://www.scientificlinux.org
• http://www.duraspace.org
• http://www.dspace.org
• http://www.bibapp.org
• http://www.openscience.org/links
• http://code.google.com/p/ardesia