Jolanta Przyłuska from Scientific Library of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland, in her paper and presentation Can a bibliographical database be replaced by a repository? (in Polish language, deposited in E-LIS) suggests using a repository of digital documents and describes the experience from administrating open access subject repository of ECNIS research – ...

Ten thousands scientific articles from a range of top scientific and professional journals are now online at the Digital Library of Slovenia portal (dLib.si, full text availability depends on the publishers’ decision). dLib.si provides quick, easy and wide access to academic achievements and contributes to the promotion and dissemination of Slovenian knowledge. Other scholarly ...

Thank you to the repository managers who have already filled in the survey, and congratulations to the three eIFL T-shirt winners: African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO), University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Orion@ISI, Indian Statistical Institute; and UNAMSpace, University of Namibia Library! We welcome more input from repository managers in developing and transition ...

If you are not familiar with AgEcon Search it is a free-to-user Web resource with full-text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in agricultural, consumer, development, energy, environmental, resource and other areas of applied economics. Open access repository AgEcon Search is housed at the University of Minnesota, and co-sponsored by the Agricultural and Applied Economics ...

In February 2009 NSL, CAS, launched a Knowledge repository and mandated the NSL members to deposit all their articles 1 month after the publication. The articles submitted by the NSL members will be the indicators of research performance during the annual performance evaluation, which impacts the faculties’ and staffs’ salaries, tenure and promotion. To support the project NSL drafted ...

The purpose of the DRIVER Wiki is to provide a home for community contributions and to create a dynamic and updatable picture of open access activity. You can read about Open Access in Bulgaria (contributor: Georgi Simeonov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Open Access in Egypt (contributor: Mandy Taha, Library of Alexandria), Open Access in ...

Boloka, the Research Repository of the North-West University in South Africa was exposed to the global research community today in the DRIVER Research Infrastructure. Congratulations to the repository team at NWU! As the first African repository to go global, the contents of Boloka, which means to store, to keep safe, or to preserve, can now be searched in conjunction with over 1 million ...

Digital repository of Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi national university, Ukraine, is now live. The repository was launched in the frames of ELibUkr project initiated byKyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America along with three Ukrainian universities: National university of «Kyiv-Mohyla academy», V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi national university supported ...

The South African Journal of Science (SAJS) is one of the first South African journals to be hosted on the fully Open Access platform, SciELO South Africa. This represents a major achievement in South Africa that will benefit researchers and scholars in providing a free-to-publish, free-to-access platform for the best scientific thinking the country has to offer. SciELO focuses on developing ...

Presentations from the workshop Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, organised by Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NELIC) and eIFL.net, supported by the Foundation Open Society Institute, Zug, Switzerland, July 22-23, 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal, are now online. Researchers, research managers and policy-makers, librarians and ICT specialists discussed how to maximise the ...