Nigeria

Building digital libraries in Africa: Local content, regional support, global visibility 15 Nov 2010
Amos Kujenga, Regional coordinator, Southern African Greenstone Support Network   “As hubs for Greenstone activities, the National Centres are doing a great job raising awareness of the role of digital libraries both locally and across...
Open Access Repositories: New Models for Scholarly Communication, April 28-29, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria 26 Oct 2010
Nigerian University Libraries Consortium, Department of Library and Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University and eIFL.net organise a workshop Open Access Repositories: New Models for Scholarly Communication, April 28-29, Ahmadu Bello University...
2nd Open Access Initiative Workshop 2009: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, Nigeria 25 Oct 2010
Welcome to 2nd Open Access Workshop organized by Department of Library and Information Science, A.B.U Zaria, Nigeria in collaboration with eIFL.net and Nigerian Universities Library Consortium. More information here.
Presenting institutional repositories in Nigeria at the Association of African University Conference at Abuja, Nigeria 25 Oct 2010
Ezra S. Gbaje, Department of Library and Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University and eIFL-OA country coordinator in Nigeria will present the status of institutional repositories in Nigeria at the Database of African Theses and Dissertations(...
Copyright in the Digital Environment: Nigerian Library Association annual conference 25 Oct 2010
Laurence Bebbington from the University of Nottingham and Ayo Kusamotu, Project Lead for Creative Commons Nigeria and advisor to One Laptop per Child, will give presentations on digital copyright at the National Conference and Annual General Meeting...
EIFL-FOSS announces Call For Participation 21 Oct 2010
The EIFL-FOSS Programme is delighted to announce a Call for Pilots and Case Studies. Deadline: 12 November 2010 The Call is designed to enable FOSS member libraries to implement FOSS pilots in any area of library operation, or to report Case...
African Greenstone Support Network (SAGSN): launch of Nigerian National Centre & first workshop 20 Sep 2010
See July eIFL FOSS News Blog for further information as well as eIFL FOSS SA Greenstone "Planned Training Events" web page
Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries - an updated version after comments 9 Jul 2010
The first version of the report was released on July 7, 2010 with request for comments and more case studies on using open content licenses by open access journals and open access repositories in developing and transition countries. This is a second...
Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries is released 5 Jul 2010
  The survey attempted to gather information from a broad spectrum of research institutions in developing and transition countries in order to get a better understanding of the current state of the implementation of open content licenses. Open...
First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in Nigeria 5 Jul 2010
  On Monday July 19th the first Southern African Greenstone Support Network Greenstone training workshop for Nigeria will start in Zaria and will be held at the "Sir Kashim Ibrahim Library", Ahmadu Bello University. The workshop marks the...
EIFL-OA country coordinators’ publications about open access 6 Jan 2010
Ezra Shiloba Gbaje, Department of Library and Information Science, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and EIFL-OA country coordinator in Nigeria, in his study Open access journal publishing in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria to be presented at...
Free publishing and access opportunities with the Oxford Journals 14 Jul 2009
The Oxford Open initiative expands Oxford Journal's experiments with Open Access publishing models. It includes full and optional open access across over 70 journals in every subject area. For each of the Oxford Journals that offers an open access...
IFLA article on current digitization projects and other ICT services in university libraries in Nigeria 10 Dec 2008
On the December 2008 issue of the IFLA Information Technology Newsletter Rose Okiy, librarian of the Delta State University, gives at "Digitizing and archiving information resources in libraries: reactionsto global initiatives from Nigeria" an...
Road-testing ahead: new copyright course scrutinised by librarians from eleven countries 7 Oct 2008
Associates at the Mortensen Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are road-testing the first modules of a new copyright course for librarians during September and October 2008. The course is...
Article about EIFL-OA Workshop in Nigeria in Nigerian Library Association Journal 1 Aug 2008
Ezra Shiloba Gbaje, librarian of the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, and eIFL OA country coordinator, gives a detailed account of the first national OA/IR workshop that was held on April 28-29 thanks to an eIFL.net grant. Through the...
Nigerian eIFL-OA coordinator recognized for his work on DSpace 27 Sep 2007
  Ezra Shiloba Gbaje has been awarded the Dr. James O. Daniel prize for the Most Innovative Library-based ICT project by the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) for his Open Access work. Ezra installed and configured Dspace for his university...
Nigeria
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