The European Commission received 30 responses to the questionnaire on scientific information in the digital age, 25 from CREST members (EU Member States) and 5 from CREST observers as a follow-up to the Council Conclusions on Scientific information in the digital age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation. From the results of the questionnaire: In Lithuania, the most active players ...

Davy Simumba, Principal Agricultural Research Officer, Zambia Agricultural Research Institute, Chilanga, Zambia & Justin Chisenga, Information Management Specialist, FAO Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana, presented a paper Open Access Publishing: Views of Researchers in Public Agricultural Research Institutions in Zambia at the plenary session on Open Access to Publicly Funded Research ...

The Oxford Open initiative expands Oxford Journal's experiments with Open Access publishing models. It includes full and optional open access across over 70 journals in every subject area. For each of the Oxford Journals that offers an open access model listed here authors in the developing countries listed below can publish for free and readers can have free access to these articles. Information ...

Leslie Chan, Subbiah Arunachalam and Barbara Kirsop published a paper The chain of communication in health science: from researcher to health worker through open access in Open Medicine, Vol 3, No 2 (2009) – a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal. The article addresses the public health benefits of open access, points to strategies for making publications accessible and ...

2 presentations and papers from the INFORUM 2009: 15th Conference on Professional Information Resources, Prague, May 27-29, 2009: Open Access Journals Quality – How to Measure It? Aneta OSTROWSKA, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Open Access: how to benefit from it reasonably and how to make the own contribution in its development? Zuzanna Wiorogórska, University of Warsaw ...

On May 22, 2009 Monica Hammes registered the open access mandate of the University of Pretoria, South Africa: To assist the University of Pretoria in providing open access to scholarly articles resulting from research done at the University, supported by public funding, staff and students are required to: - submit peer-reviewed postprints + the metadata of their articles to UPSpace, ...

On May 28, 2009 Belgorod State University presented its digital repository, http://dspace.bsu.edu.ru/ followed by the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University launching its digital repository eKhNUIR http://dspace.univer.kharkov.ua/ to implement the action plan of the Belgorod declaration on open access to scientific knowledge and cultural heritage at the university area of border regions of ...

Krzysztof Gulda, Director of the Department of Strategy and Development of Science at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, speaking at the conference Open Educational Resources in Poland on April 23, 2009, declared the interest of the Ministry in introducing open science models in Poland, as part of the current reform of the scientific system. In particular, he declared that the Ministry ...

Article 45 of the new Law on Science and Studies of the Republic of Lithuania (adopted on April 30, 2009 and took effect on May 12, 2009) requires publicity of the results of scientific activity: 1. In order to guarantee the quality, transparency of the scientific research and to stimulate scientific advancement carried out utilising state budget funds, all the results of the scientific ...