On 20-21 October, 2008 two-day workshop on Open Access and Copyright Issues in using electronic resources for the librarians of Osh Regional Library, academic libraries of Osh State University and Kyrgyz-Uzbek University was held.

The main instructor of the workshop was Safia Rafikova, Director of the library of American Universiry in Central Asia and eIFL IP and eIFL OA country coordinator in Kyrgyzstan.

Total number of participants was 19, including the library directors, their deputies, heads of the departments, programmers and administrators.

During the workshop S.K. Rafikova presented short review of International Initiatives on Open Access (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, Budapest Open Access Initiative), told about eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) program activity in Kyrgyzstan and dwelt on a question concerning creation of full-text electronic resources in libraries by the example of The AUCA Electronic Library and Corporate repository of abstracts of dissertations of Kyrgyzstan's scientists.

The second day was devoted to discussion of copyright issues in using electronic resources and providing open access to them. Participants learned how to use electronic databases of scientific publications (EBSCO, Cambridge Journals, AGORA etc.) available thanks to participation of Kyrgyz libraries in eIFL project.

Workshop agenda, TV clip about the workshop and Workshop materials (in Russian) are here: http://www.bik.org.kg/en/news/69/