Denise Rosemary Nicholson, Copyright Services Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and a member of the Wits Plagiarism Committee and Policy and Dissemination Advisor to ACA2K Project, published an article Addressing Access To Knowledge Issues In Africa in the Bibliotheca Alexandria Access to Knowledge Toolkit II: The Access to knowledge movement: Opportunities, Challenges and ...

At the DRIVER Confederation Summit, October 20, 2009, Ghent University Library, eIFL.net and DRIVER – Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research – announced a partnership to register repositories from eIFL.net network in the DRIVER Research Infrastructure so that their contents are harvested periodically, indexed into the DRIVER platform and presented in the DRIVER ...

Account by Aissa Issak On November, 4, 2009, SABER – The Mozambican Repository [http://www.saber.ac.mz] was launched in a ceremony that took place at Biblioteca Brazão Mazula/Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, the biggest university library in the country.The idea of having an information repository in Mozambique came to the agenda after a short training course in Open Access and ...

Oleksandra Yaroshenko, student of the Master’s Program in Journalism, the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), released a video NaUKMA supports Open Access to Knowledge.

Presentatons and photos from the Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop organised by the University of Latvia, State agency "Culture information systems" and eIFL.net.

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Library in Kumasi-Ghana celebrated the first ever Open Access week (October 19-23, 2009) to raise awareness on open access and the usefulness of an institutional repository. The week was an opportunity for the library to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access of research works and to showcase the newly created institutional ...