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Who's Using DSpace registry
25 Jun 2010
The DSpace Global Outreach Committee is updating the "Who's Using DSpace" registry, the most popular page on the DSpace website. Our goal is to keep everyone's repository information updated to help facilitate connections between users and...
Factors influencing the adoption of open access scholarly communication in Tanzanian public universities
18 Jun 2010
F.W. Dulle, Sokoine National Agricultural Library, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, M.K. Minish-Majanja and L.M. Cloete, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, will present a paper Factors influencing...
SABER case study: multi-university open access repository in Mozambique
18 Jun 2010
Aissa Mitha Issak, Librarian, Universidade Pedagógica, and EIFL Open Access and country coordinator in Mozambique in her paper The creation of an information repository: a perspective from Mozambican higher education sectorto be presented at ...
BioMed Central named Chinese Academy of Sciences Open Access Institute of the Year
15 Jun 2010
This award recognizes institutions, which have done most to show leadership in taking steps to expand access to the published results of scholarly research. This year, to reflect the global spread of open access initiatives, it has been...
News from the partners: SciELO SA is growing!
10 Jun 2010
The Scholarly Publishing Unit of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in today’s blog post reported that four more journal titles are in the process of being added to the SciELO SA Open Access platform:
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Q&A with Eve Gray on the future of publishing
10 Jun 2010
Andrew Rens interviewed Eve Gray, South African communications and open access expert for Memeburn: Q&A with Eve Gray: The Kindle, iPad, WWII and the future of publishing.
Overview of digital libraries in Senegal
9 Jun 2010
Antonin Benoît DIOUF, Bibliothèque centrale de l'Université Gaston Berger and EIFL-FOSS country coordinator, provides an overview of digital libraries and institutional repositories contributing to increased visibility of research from Senegal: N°...
National program Springer Open Choice/Open Access in Poland
25 May 2010
ICM, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, launched a new program financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher education in Poland – Springer Open Choice/Open Access in Poland. Starting from...
Open access options on 7 more Nature Publishing Group journals
25 May 2010
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announced open access options for seven further journals. Twenty-five journals published by NPG now offer authors an open access option, including all 15 academic journals owned by NPG.
American Journal of...
Open Access Week 2010 declared for October 18 to 24
29 Apr 2010
Open Access Week, the global event to promote free, immediate, online access to research now entering its fourth year, has been declared for October 18 to 24, 2010. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the worldwide academic and research community...
Launch of AMUR and open access PhD theses mandate in Poland
26 Mar 2010
Today, on March 26, Adam Mickiewicz University library in Poznan launched AMUR – Adam Mickiewicz University Repository. Among the repository collections – journals published at the University, PhD theses, research papers, conference presentations...
Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango discusses the importance of Open Access
24 Mar 2010
In an interview conducted by Leslie Chan of Bioline International, Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology discussed the challenges she faced when trying to publish her original research on African...
Presentations from the workshop Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment, February 17 – 19, 2010, University of Nairobi
23 Mar 2010
Presentations from the workshop Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment are now online. The workshop took place on February 17 – 19, 2010, in the University of Nairobi, organised by Bioline International, eIFL.net and Kenya...
Setting up open institutional repositories, Kharkiv, Ukraine presentations
22 Mar 2010
Presentations from the seminar Open Access to Research Information: Setting up Institutional Repositories and Using the Content organised by the coordination council of the borderline Belarus-Russia-Ukraine university consortium and hosted by the...
National Science Library: early adopter of open access in China
1 Mar 2010
The National Science Library at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has been leading the way in the development of open access in China. Open access means the free (gratis) availability of peer-reviewed literature to the public on the internet,...
Open Access advocacy workshop in Malawi: Maximising research quality and impact
27 Feb 2010
Iryna Kuchma & Kondwani Wella report on the Open Access Advocacy Workshop: Maximising Research Quality and Impact which took place at Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Malawi in Lilongwe, on 29 and 30 October 2009, organised by the Malawi...
European countries join forces to realize the EC Open Access pilot: OpenAIRE
25 Feb 2010
OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), a three-years project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission, has now taken up its work to implement Open Access on a pan-European scale. This ambitious...
Video and audio recording of all the presentations from the II International Conference Open Access in Poland
5 Feb 2010
Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now available at the the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) Internet Television: http://tv.umk.pl/?id=539
News from the partners: Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing
5 Feb 2010
Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Main Office are pleased to announce the launch of the Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing.
The online guide is directed to small independent teams and provides...
News from the partners: Guide to open science is published in Poland
5 Feb 2010
The ICM – Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling - of the University of Warsaw (UW) published a Guide to open science - “Przewodnik po otwartej nauce”. The Guide covers Open Access, Open Science and Open Educational...
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19 Jun 2013
Open Access Week 2013
21 Oct 2013
