Description

Workshop organised by Susan Veldsman, Director: Scholarly Publishing Unit, ASSAf, & Iryna Kuchma, Open Access program manager, eIFL.net. This workshop will be held on Thursday 14 May 2009 (here) and form part of the African Digital Scholarship 2009 Conference (here). You set up your institutional repository and want to populate it with as many as possible research papers from your institution. Or you plan the repository, you know how to start but what are the best ways to develop it? How should you licence open access content to avoid confusion around its use and reuse? The one-day workshop will help to answer your questions. The benefits of open access and strategies to advocate for it in research institutions will be discussed, as well as the best approaches to collaborative promotion of research output (value-added services on top of the open access institutional repositories, cooperative electronic publishing projects), using repositories in the research assessment exercises and case studies on successful management of institutional repositories. The cost of attending only this workshop is R400. Please register here for Workshop 5.

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