DRIVER and eIFL.net - Electronic Information for Libraries - have identified demand for cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories. DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the European Commission, to establish a

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Moldova: Consortium eIFL Direct Moldova - Natalia Cheradi, the Open Access Coordinator for Moldova: - A blog about Open Access in Romanian language and a directory of Open Access Moldovian resources will be launched on the Open Access Day - Natalia Cheradi, the Open Access Coordinator for Moldova, will speak about Open Access on the National

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KUIR is the fist institutional repository in Azerbaijan. Administrated by Khazar University Library Information Center, the KUIR showcases the research outputs of Khazar University staff, http://dspace.khazar.org. Materials in the repository are selected by the university’s research faculty. Pre- and post prints of scholarly articles from the

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A Workshop on Institutional Repositories and Open Access was held in Maputo, Mozambique, in July from 28 to 30, 2008. 30 participants from higher education and research institutions from Maputo, the capital city and also from Beira and Nampula attended the workshop. On the July 30th an open session was organized about Open Access and a broader audi

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Birzeit university library in Palestine, Tromsø university library and Telemark university college library in Norway have decided to work together in order to promote the development and establishment of an Open research archive for scientific publications and master and PhD theses from Birzeit university. An open access research archive will give

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We are going to facilitate information and knowledge exchange about Open Access in different languages. As to the tools - as the first step we have just transformed eiflrussian - Russian speaking eIFL community mailing list - into Open Access discussion forum in Russian language and if you want to be part of it please subscribe here: http://www.eif

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Elena Okhezina, Ural State University Library and eIFL Open Access country coordinator in Russia, and Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager were invited to join DSpace Global Outreach Committee. The primary goal of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is to help facilitate more regional support, trainings, user group meetings, resou

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http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area (in English) Gray Area: Opening up scholarly publishing by Eve Gray, publishing consultant and Open Access advocate in South Africa http://boa.icm.edu.pl/ (in Polish) BOA: Blog o Open Access pisze Justyna Hofmokl, socjolog, koordynator Creative Commons Polska http://cybermongol.blogspot.com (in Mongolia

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Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are co-producing a set of videos celebrating the benefits of open access to scientific and medical research. Principal production has begun in London, New York, and at CERN in Geneva, featuring video interviews with activists, publishers, and consumers of scientific and medical information in the devel

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On August 2-3, 2008 Kyrgyzstan Library Information Consortium in collaboration with eIFL.net and American University of Central Asia organized the workshop "Open Access and Web 2.0: Improving the scientific communications " for Kyrgyz librarians. Seminar presentations (all in Russian) are here: http://www.bik.org.kg/ru/news/64/. The Kyrgyzstan

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Civil society organizations participating in the OECD 2008 Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy (Seoul, June 17-18, 2008) have issued the Seoul Declaration (June 16, 2008): http://thepublicvoice.org/events/seoul08/seoul-declaration.pdf

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Nauka Publishers based in Kyiv, Ukraine, specialised in educational and scientific literature, and the Center for American Literary Studies in Ukraine at the Institute of literature after Taras Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine started cooperation with Connexions – an environment for collaboratively developing, freely shar

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Jasper Lee Maenzanise, Zimbabwe Open University and eIFL Open Access country coordinator, gave another presentation about open access movement at Zimbabwe Book Fair Writers Workshop on 29th of July 2008. While tertiary institutions are well informed about open access, there is still a dearth of knowledge among most people regarding this new paradig

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Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia launched two Open Access journals: Armenian Journal of Mathematics (http://www.flib.sci.am/eng/journal/Math/index.html) and Armenian Journal of Physics (http://www.flib.sci.am/eng/journal/Phys/index.html). Armenian Scientific Journals - Open Ac

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Consortium eIFL Direct Moldova and eIFL.net organised a workshop Open Access: Exploring Scholarly Communication on June 23-24 in Moldova Economics Academy, Chisinau. Open Access is gaining the momentum in Moldova. National Council for Accreditation and Attestation maintains an Open Access ETDs collection with 855 current theses, including 94 th

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On June 18-21 Informatio Consortium, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and eIFL.net organised a study visit of repository managers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine. Together with their Ukrainian colleagues they discussed strategies for securing faculty and administration support, management, copyright and inte

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On June 13 2007 Kathy Matsika, Chief librarian, National University of Science and Technology, and head of Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium presented Open Access: advantages and disadvantages for users, librarians and rightsholders at the Writers, Librarians and Copyright Workshop during Zimbabwe International Bookfair in Bulawayo. She focu

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Under the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science, with the help of the Lithuanian Research Libraries Consortium a meeting on Open Access in European Union and Lithuania was held at the office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on May 7, 2008. Agenda of the meeting: http://www.lmba.lt/doc/agenda.doc Power point presen

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On May 14-15, 2008, Georgian Integrated Library & Information System Consortium (GILISC) and eIFL.net organised a workshop Open Access: New Models for Scholarly Communication. Hosted by Ilia Chavchavadze State University the workshop addressed Open Access policies and recommendations and highlighted the benefits of Open Access journals and Open rep

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The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to 30 June 2008. The theme of the ZULC International Conference on Open Access and Quality Assurance in Higher Education libraries will include the following sub-themes for discussion: 1. Quality Assurance (QA) in higher education libraries in Africa 2. Open Access in higher educatio

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