Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella report on the Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact which took place at Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi in Lilongwe, on 29 and 30 October 2009, organised by the Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO), the Malawi Research andEducation Network (MAREN), the Southern African Regional Universities Association ...

OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious effort unites 38 partners from 27 European countries. The main goal of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Access pilot, launched by the European Commission ...

The ICM – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling - of the University of Warsaw (UW) published a Guide to open science - “Przewodnik po otwartej nauce”. The Guide covers Open Access, Open Science and Open Educational Resources. Authors of the Guide are Justyna Hofmokl, Krzysztof Siewicz and Alek Tarkowski, Creative Commons Polska coordinators, ...

Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Main Office are pleased to announce the launch of the Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing. The online guide is directed to small independent teams and provides practical information on planning, setting up, launching, publishing and managing an open access scholarly journal. Users can take advantage of additional resources in ...

Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now available at the the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) Internet Television: http://tv.umk.pl/?id=539

Presentations from the IInd International conference Open Access in Poland are online. Among the speakers - Alma Swan and Bernard Rentier from EOS, Claire Bundy from Open Repository and Maria Romano from BioMed Central, Jan Andrzej Nikisch and Iryna Kuchma from eIFL.net, Marcin Werla from Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Alek Tarkowski from the ...

October 18 to 24 has been selected for International Open Access Week 2010. Please stay tuned to this site for updates on the program and registration when it opens.

eIFL.net and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD: http://www.ndltd.org/) decided to work together to promote the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations and to make intellectual outputs from developing and transition countries more visible and more easily accessible locally ...

Some context The Web has already changed, and will change much more, the way research is both conducted and communicated: e-research, collaborative research, interdisciplinary research call for barrier-free communication channels. These things simply cannot be carried out efficiently in a world where researchers cannot lay their hands on information they want at the time they want it, and for no ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by researchers at its institutions. CAS has long been a supporter of open access, having signed the Berlin Declaration in 2004. Under the terms of the arrangement, CAS, through its library, will centrally cover half of the article processing ...

Irtalk – a discussion list to discuss, communicate, share information on all open access and institutional repositories related issues in Africa and South Africa. DuraSpace – discussion list for the South Africa DSpace/ DuraSpace workgroup - mostly technical issues (maintained and managed by Hilton Gibson, Linux/ Ubuntu expert and Systems Administrator at the Stellenbosch ...

In autumn 2009 the Hong Kong Open Access Committee (HKOAC) launched a website Open Access for Hong Kong to promote the concept, the reasons for, and the practice of open access in all Hong Kong academic, governmental and philanthropic institutions and to call to freely share research and intellectual output funded by the Hong Kong people. "Open Access of our research outcomes is a must as a ...

Denise Rosemary Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a member of the Wits Plagiarism Committee and Policy and Dissemination Advisor to ACA2K Project, published an article Addressing Access To Knowledge Issues In Africa in the Bibliotheca Alexandria Access to Knowledge Toolkit II: The Access to knowledge movement: Opportunities, Challenges and ...

At the DRIVER Confederation Summit, October 20, 2009, Ghent University Library, eIFL.net and DRIVER – Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research – announced a partnership to register repositories from eIFL.net network in the DRIVER Research Infrastructure so that their contents are harvested periodically, indexed into the DRIVER platform and presented in the DRIVER ...

Account by Aissa Issak On November, 4, 2009, SABER – The Mozambican Repository [http://www.saber.ac.mz] was launched in a ceremony that took place at Biblioteca Brazão Mazula/Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, the biggest university library in the country.The idea of having an information repository in Mozambique came to the agenda after a short training course in Open Access and ...

Oleksandra Yaroshenko, student of the Master’s Program in Journalism, the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), released a video NaUKMA supports Open Access to Knowledge.

Presentatons and photos from the Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop organised by the University of Latvia, State agency "Culture information systems" and eIFL.net.

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Library in Kumasi-Ghana celebrated the first ever Open Access week (October 19-23, 2009) to raise awareness on open access and the usefulness of an institutional repository. The week was an opportunity for the library to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access of research works and to showcase the newly created institutional ...

eIFL.net has become a founding member of the international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) which was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009. Coinciding with the sixth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration to provide "free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide", COAR takes responsibility for the execution of this ...

During the Open Access Week the University of Pretoria Library Services released a document on the history of its Open Access mandate and a scorecard on the progress of open access at the university. “We Build the Road By Walking It” was the slogan for a very tentative beginning to bring awareness about Open Access on campus which quickly gained momentum as the campus ...