EIFL-OA training

EIFL-OA organises awareness raising, advocacy and capacity building events and workshops. Below are links to the recorded sessions and the presentations.

Online/webinar sessions:

Towards repository interoperability – COAR webinar, December 4, 2012

Islandora webinar: Building digital repository ecosystems – EIFL-FOSS webinar, November 22, 2012

Open Monograph Press webinar – book publishing and creating a press website – EIFL-OA and EIFL-FOSS webinar, October 23, 2012

Open Harvester Systems webinar – providing cross-repository and journal access – EIFL-OA and EIFL-FOSS webinar, October 19, 2012

How to make your journal OpenAIRE compliant, May 7 and 8, 2012

Open Access Advocacy: How students can get involved, January 31, 2012

How to make your repository OpenAIRE compliant, January 23 and 24, 2012

Open Access at the University of Glasgow: Sharing experiences; online event on October 28, 2011

Open Journal System (OJS): EIFL-OA and EIFL-FOSS Themed Week October, 24 - 28, 2011

Open Access Publishing in Africa: EIFL-OA – BioMed Central online workshop, October 21, 2011

Open Access Repositories with DSpace and Fedora: EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA Themed Week 2011

Capacity building for OA repository administrators and managers: EIFL-OA – KIT – COAR online workshop, 27 July 2011

Open access advocacy: EIFL-OA online workshop, May 30, 2011

Open Access Repositories with EPrints: EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA Themed Week for 2011

Onsite/in-country:

Open access policy development and advocacy pre-conference workshop at Berlin 10, November 6, 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Organized by EIFL in partnership with INASP, SPARC, SPARC Europe, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS), COAR and UNESCO.

Open access (OA) and OA institutional repositories workshop for the University of Nairobi Management Board, August 30, 2012, at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

OA and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment, July 9 - 11, 2012, at Makerere University, Uganda. Organised by the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) and EIFL.

OpenAIREplus workshop:  “Linking open access publications to data – policy development and implementation”, a pre-Nordbib meeting on June 11, 2012, at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark.

L'atelier sur les archives ouvertes (Open Access Repositories workshop) on May 14-15, 2012 in Monastir, Tunisia, as part of a three-year TEMPUS funded project “Optimizing access to scientific and technical information at Maghreb universities” (ISTeMag); a regional workshop for the project partners from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia hosted by Université de Monastir.

Open Access and Digital Libraries Workshop using DSpace Software, March 21 - 25, 2011, at the Central Library, National University of Laos. Organised by Laos Library and Information Consortium (LALIC), National University of Laos and EIFL and funded by UNESCO and EIFL

Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment workshop, September 1 - 2, 2010, University of Botswana Organised by EIFL, the University of Botswana, Botswana Libraries Consortium and Public Knowledge Project and funded by Carnegie Foundation and EIFL

Benefits of Open Access for Research Dissemination, Usage, Visibility and Impact workshop, August 30, 2010, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya.

Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment, February 17 – 19, 2010, University of Nairobi. A workshop organised by Bioline International, EIFL and Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium.

Atelier national sur l’Accès Ouvert aux publications scientifiques et techniques au Sénégal (Open Access). Le Consortium des Bibliothèques de l’enseignement supérieur du Sénégal (COBESS), organise en collaboration avec EIFL dans le cadre de son programme «Open Access », un atelier national sur les archives ouvertes (OA) au Sénégal, les 9 et 10 février 2010 à la sale multimédia de l’UCADII de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.

2nd Open Access Initiative Workshop 2009: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, organised by Department of Library and Information Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, in collaboration with eIFL.net and Nigerian Universities Library Consortium on November 2-4, 2009.

Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi, 29-30 October 2009 organised by Malawi Library and Information Consortium (MALICO), Malawi Research and Education Network (MAREN), Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) and EIFL.

Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact workshop in Nepal, July 22-23, 2009, Kathmandu. Organised by Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NELIC) and EIFL.

Open access repositories seminar at Crimea 2009, organised on June 11, 2009, by EIFL and GPNTB at the Sixteenth International Conference Crimea 2009: Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education, and Business, Sudak, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine.

Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop in Palestine, May 25-26, 2009, Birzeit University Library, Palestine. Organisers: Palestinian Library and Information Consortium, Birzeit University Library, Telemark University College Library, Norway, and EIFL.

Gaining the momentum: Open Access and advancement of science and research, 14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. Workshop in the frames of African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009.

Open Access: Maximising Research Impact workshop, April 23-24, 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia, Bulgaria. Organisers: Bulgarian Information Consortium, New Bulgarian University Library and EIFL. 

Using Open Access Models for Science Dissemination: A set of talks by eIFL-OA July 7-16, 2008, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

Open Access: Exploring Scholarly Communication June 23-24, 2008, Chisinau, Moldova

Open Repositories: New Models for Scholarly Communication June 19, 2008, Kyiv, Ukraine

Open Access: New Models for Scholarly Communication May 14-15, 2008, Tbilisi, Georgia