OA-week-2011

Call for Proposals: copyright law reform advocacy campaigns 3 Apr 2012
Opportunity for EIFL partner countries to reach out to policy-makers
Restrictive copyright laws create legal barriers to accessing resources for education, research and personal development. At EIFL, we advocate for fair and balanced copyright laws that support libraries in providing access to knowledge. The EIFL-IP...
EIFL OA Week 2011 photo contest winner! 21 Dec 2011
Congratulations to Mandy Taha, Senior Librarian, Bibliotheca Alexandrina! Thank you to all those who participated in the first EIFL Open Access week photo contest.  Learn more about other Open Access Week activities in EIFL partner...
DSpace in Africa: Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe 28 Oct 2011
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe - Duraspace releases the fifth of a five-part series, DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture, that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in...
DSpace in Africa: Sudan, South Africa 27 Oct 2011
Sudan, South Africa - Duraspace releases the fourth of a five-part series, DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture, that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in...
Open Access in Serbia: doiSerbia 27 Oct 2011
The National Library of Serbia launched doiSerbia in 2005 in order to make Serbian research visible to the international community. It has been a huge success ever since - evidenced by the number of journals now indexed in Web of Science and...
DSpace in Africa: Mozambique, Senegal 27 Oct 2011
Mozambique, Senegal - Duraspace releases the third of a five-part series, DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture, that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration...
DSpace in Africa: Kenya and Malawi 25 Oct 2011
Kenya, Malawi - Duraspace releases the second of a five-part series, DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture, that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of...
DSpace in Africa: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana 24 Oct 2011
Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana - Duraspace releases the first of a five-part series, DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture, that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in...
EIFL partner institutions sign the Berlin Declaration 24 Oct 2011
EIFL partner institutions – Khazar University (Xəzər Universitəsi, Azerbaijan), Lithuanian Research Library Consortium, National University of Lesotho and Universidade Pedagógica Moçambique –  joined over 320 leading international research,...
OA e-learning course for Polish scholarly community 24 Oct 2011
Today Nicolaus Copernicus University Library and Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza – University of Science and Technology – have launched an
Open Access Publishing in Africa 21 Oct 2011
Today we hosted EIFL-OA – BioMed Central online workshop Open Access Publishing in Africa. Calum Land, BioMed Central, reviewed the state of open access in Africa, talked on how open access can benefit Africa and presented open access journals...
Slovenia launches a national Open Access website 21 Oct 2011
OPENACCESS.SI  - Today, Jozef Stefan Institute launched the Slovenian national Open Access website, making it the first Slovenian web site exclusively dealing with different aspects of open access, tailored to the needs of...
Open Access Week in Russia launches with webinar 20 Oct 2011
To celebrate the launch of International Open Access Week in Russia, International Academy of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl, hosted a webinar "Knowledge Management: Open Digital Educational Resources and Archives" on October 14....
Themed week: Open Journal System (OJS) 11 Oct 2011
Are you interested in open access journal publishing? Would you like to know more about how libraries can help open access journal publishers? Open Journal System is a FOSS tool that allows you to do just that! There are over 10,000 OJS (...
EIFL 2011 Open Access Week photo contest 4 Oct 2011
Take out your cameras and document your activities!
EIFL is looking for interesting and inspiring photographs to help promote awareness of and share ideas for Open Access Week. Please send us photographs of activities that took place at your library during OA week 2011, October 24 – 30, 2011....