The new Institutional Repository, UJDigispace, of the University of Johannesburg was successfully launched on the 24th of March 2009. The Library under the initiative of Mr. Barrie Swanepoel, was responsible for the implementation of the University’s open access electronic archive. The Repository was unveiled by Prof. Derek van der Merwe, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University. The IR’s first ...

Following the training on Institutional repository in South Africa in October 2008, INASP gave a grant to Kondwani Wella, eIFL-OA country coordinator, University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing to organise Institutional repository training in Malawi on March 18-20, 2009. University of Malawi open access institutional repository will be launched soon as well as the repository of the Ministry ...

The Workshop is meant to be informative and practical with hands-on sessions and demonstration on the technical setup, organization and maintenance of the newest web applications and services to access, carry out and disseminate science. Participants will be exposed to the tremendous resources and possibilities available to the scientific community including open access for science dissemination, ...

52 research managers, researchers and librarians from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia participated in the Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop in the New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia, organised by the Bulgarian Information Consortium, New Bulgarian University Library and eIFL.net, and supported by the Higher Education Support Program (HESP) of the Open Society ...

This study is part of a cooperative program between eIFL.net, the University of Kansas Libraries, the DRIVER project and Key Perspectives Ltd., and aims at creating an inventory of current digital repository activities in developing and transition countries, at both the infrastructure and services level. This survey has been adapted from the DRIVER Inventory study into the present type and ...

Donetsk National Technical University hosted a workshop Open Access to research information – creating Open Access journals and open repositories for the heads of research departments, researchers and librarians from Eastern Ukraine. Presentations from the workshop (in Ukrainian) by Tetiana Yaroshenko, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy: ...

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 ...