Open Access News

Open access institutional mandates in the eIFL countries 1 Apr 2009
A great news about open access institutional mandate from Ternopil State Ivan Pul'uj Technical University, Ukraine, encouraged us to count open access institutional mandates in eIFL countries. And there are three mandates in Russia (thanks to Sergey...
Russia, Ukraine, EIFL-OA
Open Access Week declared for 2009 6 Mar 2009
Popular global event extended over one week, October 19 – 23 Washington, DC – March 5, 2009 – To accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward Open Access to scholarly research results, October 19 – 23, 2009 will mark the first...
SURF: 2009 is Open Access year 26 Feb 2009
The Dutch higher education sector has declared 2009 to be ‘Open Access Year’. The aim is to boost Open Access to the results of scientific/scholarly and practice-based research. Efforts will be made throughout the year to formulate and implement an...
EIFL-OA
Knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories in Russia 11 Jan 2009
On December 2-3, Scientific Library of Ural State University after M.Gorky and eIFL.net organized a workshop “Knowledge in the digital age: Open Access and Open repositories” at the Ural State University, Russia, sponsored by Xerox (CIS) and "Fort...
Russia, EIFL-OA
Open Access workshop in Ethiopia: How to improve accessibility, visibility and impact of your research outputs 11 Jan 2009
On December 22, 2008, Addis Ababa University Libraries and eIFL.net organised a workshop Open Access: How to improve accessibility, visibility and impact of your research outputs for librarians and researchers from Addis Ababa and neighbouring towns...
Ethiopia, EIFL-OA
Events celebrating Open Access Day in EIFL countries 17 Nov 2008
October 14, 2008 was the world’s first Open Access Day. The founding partners were SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), Students for FreeCulture, and the Public Library of Science. Open Access Day helped to broaden...
EIFL-OA
Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Yerevan, Armenia 17 Nov 2008
On October 15-16, 2008, eIFL.net, Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and Electronic Library Consortium of Armenia (ELCA) organised Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Yerevan....
Armenia, EIFL-OA
eIFL.net is joining the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association 17 Nov 2008
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA offers a forum for bringing together the entire community of Open Access journal publishers. OASPA mission is to represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all...
EIFL-OA
The Serbian Citation Index – SCIndeks 1.6. published 17 Nov 2008
The stable version of SCIndeks: the Serbian Citation Index, internally signed as 1.6., was published at the new permanent address http://scindeks.nb.rs/. This extended version contains all papers published from 2002 onwards in more than 350 indexed...
Serbia, EIFL-OA
Open Access workshop in Minsk, Belarus 17 Nov 2008
On October 20-21, 2008, eIFL.net, Fundamental Library of Belarus State University and BelLibNet organised Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Minsk, Belarus. As a result a national project modeling the Netherlands Cream of Science is being...
Belarus, EIFL-OA
DRIVER and EIFL sign Memorandum of Understanding 29 Sep 2008
DRIVER and eIFL.net - Electronic Information for Libraries - have identified demand for cooperation in order to progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research outputs through digital repositories. DRIVER is a...
Sharing plans for the Open Access day - October 14 19 Sep 2008
Azerbaijan: Tatyana Zayseva, Library Information Center Director, Khazar University tzayseva[@]gmail.com: Khazar University library translated "A very brief introduction to Open Access" by Peter Suber into Azeri language: http://www.khazar.org/...
EIFL-OA
Khazar University Institutional Repository (KUIR), Azerbaijan 18 Sep 2008
KUIR is the fist institutional repository in Azerbaijan. Administrated by Khazar University Library Information Center, the KUIR showcases the research outputs of Khazar University staff, http://dspace.khazar.org. Materials in the repository are...
Azerbaijan, EIFL-OA
Two new Open Access Journals from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia 17 Sep 2008
Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia launched two Open Access journals: Armenian Journal of Mathematics  and Armenian Journal of Physics. Armenian Scientific Journals - Open Access. More...
Armenia, EIFL-OA
Workshop on Institutional Repositories and Open Access in Mozambique 17 Sep 2008
A Workshop on Institutional Repositories and Open Access was held in Maputo, Mozambique, in July from 28 to 30, 2008. 30 participants from higher education and research institutions from Maputo, the capital city and also from Beira and Nampula...
Mozambique, EIFL-OA
Open repository in Birzeit university: Palestine-Norway Partnership 11 Sep 2008
Birzeit university library in Palestine, Tromsø university library and Telemark university college library in Norway have decided to work together in order to promote the development and establishment of an Open research archive for scientific...
Palestine, EIFL-OA
Approaching eIFL Open Access from different languages perspective 10 Sep 2008
We are going to facilitate information and knowledge exchange about Open Access in different languages. As to the tools - as the first step we have just transformed eiflrussian - Russian speaking EIFL community mailing list - into Open Access...
EIFL-OA
Blogs about Open Access from eIFL countries 8 Sep 2008
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area (in English) Gray Area: Opening up scholarly publishing by Eve Gray, publishing consultant and Open Access advocate in South Africa http://boa.icm.edu.pl/ (in Polish) BOA: Blog o Open Access pisze Justyna...
EIFL-OA
DSpace Global Outreach Committee 8 Sep 2008
The primary goal of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is to help facilitate more regional support, trainings, user group meetings and resources for the DSpace user community world-wide. Among Committee Members there are Ezra S. Gbaje -...
EIFL-OA
The Open Access Documentary Project 3 Sep 2008
Intelligent Television and BioMed Central are co-producing a set of videos celebrating the benefits of open access to scientific and medical research. Principal production has begun in London, New York, and at CERN in Geneva, featuring video...
EIFL-OA