On March 16 – 18, 2009, the Database of African Theses and Dissertations Programme of the Association of African Universities organized an International Institutional Repository Advocacy Seminar in collaboration with the Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) and Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands. 80 participants from Africa and Europe – heads of tertiary institutions and libraries – attended the seminar. The seminar participants worked on the policy guidelines for the operations of institutional repositories in Africa. Netsanet Animut from Addis Ababa University Libraries presented Open ETD repository (http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace) and National Repository Centre, Ethiopia. Other case studies: Zimbabwe and CAMES (Francophone universities network), MALICO's National Repository Centre of Malawi.

Programme and presentations. http://www.aau.org/datad/ws/iras09/prog.htm

Open access institutional repository of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology: http://dspace.knust.edu.gh