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 flexible, robust, and scalable infrastructure ...

Azerbaijan: Tatyana Zayseva, Library Information Center Director, Khazar University tzayseva[@]gmail.com: Khazar University library translated "A very brief introduction to Open Access" by Peter Suber into Azeri language: http://www.khazar.org/library/news.shtm#news1 Lithuania: Dr. Gintare Tautkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, gintare.tautkeviciene[@]ktu.lt Lithuanian ...

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 Azerbaijan Archeology, Journal of Azerbaijani ...

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 audience attended this event. The workshop was ...

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 global access to doctoral and master thesis and ...

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.eifl.net:8080/mailman/listinfo/eiflrussian or send a ...

The primary goal of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is to help facilitate more regional support, trainings, user group meetings and resources for the DSpace user community world-wide. Among Committee Members there are Ezra S. Gbaje - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and eIFL-OA country coordinator in Nigeria, Yohannes Mulugeta - Addis Ababa University Libraries, Elena Okhezina - Ural ...

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 Mongolian) Cybermon's blog for your access to knowledge ...

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 developed and developing world. The fist video clips ...