On October 21-25, 2008 The "Central Asia - 2008: Internet and Library and Information Resources in Science, Education, Culture and Business" 5th Anniversary International Conference took place in Fergana city (Uzbekistan). 170 persons, including representatives of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, USA and Uzbekistan, participated in the Central Asia 2008 Conference. Director of ...

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 ...

On October 20-21, 2008, eIFL.net, Fundamental Library of Belarus State University and BelLibNet organised Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Minsk, Belarus. As a result a national project modeling the Netherlands Cream of Science is being planned by Universities and the National library. Presentations (in English and Russian) will appear soon here: ...

The stable version of SCIndeks: the Serbian Citation Index, internally signed as 1.6., was published at the new permanent address http://scindeks.nb.rs/. This extended version contains all papers published from 2002 onwards in more than 350 indexed national professional journals. Articles from more than 130 journals are available in Open Access. SCIndeks is a service of the Centre for ...

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA offers a forum for bringing together the entire community of Open Access journal publishers. OASPA mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines. This mission will be carried out through exchanging information, setting standards, advancing ...

On October 15-16, 2008, eIFL.net, Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and Electronic Library Consortium of Armenia (ELCA) organised Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Yerevan. Fundamental Library of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia supported by the Open Society Assistance Foundation created a platform for high quality ...

October 14, 2008 was the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners were SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science. Open Access Day helped to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the ...