eIFL.net has become a founding member of the international Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) which was launched in Ghent on 21 October, during Open Access Week 2009. Coinciding with the sixth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration to provide "free and unrestricted access to sciences and human knowledge representation worldwide", COAR takes responsibility for the execution of this ...

During the Open Access Week the University of Pretoria Library Services released a document on the history of its Open Access mandate and a scorecard on the progress of open access at the university. “We Build the Road By Walking It” was the slogan for a very tentative beginning to bring awareness about Open Access on campus which quickly gained momentum as the campus ...

As part of its OA Day celebrations the University of Pretoria Library Services launched its list of Accredited Open Access Journals – South Africa (AOAJSA). AOAJSA is a list of open access journals (600 titles) accredited by the South African Department of Education and which qualify for funding. These journals appear in one or more of the following: Web of Science: Science Citation ...

To coincide with the Open Access week, EDINA (a JISC UK-national academic data centre based at the University of Edinburgh) is pleased to announce that the Depot has been opened up internationally. Building upon its initial role given to it by JISC, the Depot is now being opening up into a facility to support the Open Access agenda internationally.The Depot ( www.depot.edina.ac.uk) is an assured ...

Congratulations to the colleagues from the University of Zimbabwe Libraries with a beautiful Open Access Week web-page and wide range of activites! (Highlights of the Open Access Week)

The first international Open Access Week for Open Access to research, October 19 – 23, 2009, has arrived! Hundreds of leading academic and research sites in over 30 countries will mark the week in unique ways, and express their support for the advancement of knowledge through free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research. Open Access Week is designed to help raise ...

Video recordings of the presentations from Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access and Dissemination, ICTP Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 12-16 October 2009, are online (automatic video recording of the activities with synchronized audio and video slides using the ICTP EyA System): Introduction to Open Access - Iryna Kuchma, eIFL.net Open Repositories - Iryna Kuchma, ...

Presentations from the Open Access session at Informatio 2009, October 9, Lviv, Ukraine, are online (in Ukrainian language). The presentations cover open access news, overview of open access projects in Ukraine, case studies of the open access repositories from Kharkiv National University, Ternopil Technical University, Chernivtsi National University, National University Lviv Polytechnics, Lviv ...