FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES

Mon Jun 4 13:59:38 EEST 2007

Dear Florence,

Thanks to hear your voice too! Setting up the repository is one thing, maybe
the easiest thing, but to populate your repository and to do the advocacy
bit, that is the most challenging!

Thanks for sharing!

REGARDS

SUSAN

+++++++++++++++++++++

Susan Veldsman

eIFL content Manager

30 O'Reill Merry Street

Northmead

1510

South Africa

Tel: +27 11 425 4736

Fax: +27 11 425 4737

+++++++++++++++++++++

   _____  

From: Susan Veldsman [mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net] 
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:48 PM
To: eifloa at eifl.net
Subject: FW: FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES

Dear friends, 

In Uganda, institutional repositories are coming up with Makerere University
leading in this. My university is also following but it still needs support
because the collection online is still small.  May be  countries where this
is just coming up, sensitising academics would be good as some academics are
not willing to have their works within the institutional repository or may
be just do not understand why. 

This is still our work as librarians to sensitize them. 

Kind regards, 

Florence 

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:03:35 +0200, Susan Veldsman wrote 
> Dear all, 
>   
> Does somebody else have something to share with us? 
>   
> KIND REGARDS 
> SUSAN 
>   
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> Susan Veldsman 
> eIFL content Manager 
>   
> 30 O'Reill Merry Street 
> Northmead 
> 1510 
> South Africa 
>   
> Tel: +27 11 425 4736 
> Fax: +27 11 425 4737 
>   
> +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> 
> 

   _____  

> From: Ezra Shiloba Gbaje [mailto:shiloba at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:08 PM 
> To: Susan Veldsman 
> Subject: Re: FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES 
>   
> Hi everybody, 
> 
> Susan, I want to thanks for drawing our attention to some of the
activities of eIFL on OA and IR particularly for some of that have just been
added to the mailing list. Below is my observation and view concerning OAI
in Nigeria: 
> Open Access Initiative is a completely new concept within the Nigeria
academic community and other stakeholders in research and development. There
is very little or no knowledge of the immense potentials of OA journals and
Institutional Repository (IR) among the stakeholders in Nigeria. For this
reason, there is yet to be any IR in Nigeria. Very few journals particularly
from the field of Medicine have their presence on the web providing free
access to their research findings. 
>   
> At the last Nigeria Library Association (NLA) Kaduna State Chapter, Annual
General Meeting in March we had a one day workshop on OA, and we are pushing
for same workshop at the NLA National Annual Conference  
> 
> 
>   
> 
> Thanks 
> 
>   
> 
> Ezra Shiloba Gbaje 
> 
> 
> Susan Veldsman <susan.veldsman at eifl.net> wrote: 

> DEAR COLLEAGUES, 
> 
> Teresa also pointed out this very useful chapter in the Copyright Handbook

> of eIFL, please have a look at it. 
> 
> THANKS 
> 
> SUSAN 
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> Susan Veldsman 
> eIFL content Manager 
> 
> 30 O'Reill Merry Street 
> Northmead 
> 1510 
> South Africa 
> 
> Tel: +27 11 425 4736 
> Fax: +27 11 425 4737 
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Teresa Hackett (eIFL) [mailto:teresa.hackett at eifl.net] 
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 4:52 PM 
> To: Susan Veldsman 
> Cc: Melissa Hagemann; Rima Kupryte 
> Subject: Re: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES 
> 
> Dear Susan, 
> 
> Thank you for the useful overview. The topic "Open Access to Scholarly 
> Communications" in the eIFL-IP Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues 
> might also be a useful resource in your travels, as a potted 
> introduction to OA and libraries. It's available in html and pdf in 
> English and Polish. 
>
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/handbook/eifl-handb

> ook-on 
> 
> "Open Access to Scholarly Communications" 
> What is open access to scholarly communications? 
> What is the driving force behind open access? 
> Policy Statements and initiatives 
> Open access and developing and transition countries 
> Libraries and open access 
> References - Statements and declarations - Reports - Resources 
> 
> Best wishes 
> Teresa 
> 
> Susan Veldsman wrote: 
> > DEAR COLLEAGUES, 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This might be “old” news to you, but I am repeating the headlines of our

> > activities within eIFL, as we have added a lot of people on the OA-list 
> and 
> > I thought it might be of interest to them? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What are the main issues for eIFL thus far? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 1. eIFL Institutional Repository Survey 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > During January 2007 eIFL conducted an Institutional Repository survey 
> > amongst its 50 members. The purpose of the survey was to: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > + establish which member countries have institutional repositories, and
at 
> > which institutions 
> > 
> > + which countries has no institutional repositories and 
> > 
> > + if they don’t have one do they intend to set up repositories and when 
> > 
> > + establish IR training needs among member countries 
> > 
> > + establish if there are any government initiatives to mandate OA
policies 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > There were 34 respondents to this survey. There were 15 countries with 
> IR’s 
> > currently available in their countries with a total of 50 individual
IR’s. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2. This survey assisted eIFL to formulate a few strategies to take the 
> whole 
> > OA initiative forward: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > + A possible co-operation is being considered with SURF, to assist with 
> the 
> > harvesting of metadata of these repositories, hereby creating an eIFL 
> > repository of developing countries. We are currently busy negotiating
with 
> > SURF and we are well on track to set up a pilot project. This pilot 
> project 
> > will help us to determine how harvestable our data are, and show us
which 
> > other standards we should consider. 
> > 
> > +setting up repositories in those countries that are ready for it 
> > 
> > + record and create a pool of expertise within eIFL 
> > 
> > +record the details of IR’s within eIFL 
> > 
> > +register all eIFL repositories via OpenDoar 
> > 
> > +advocacy workshops 
> > 
> > +additional training 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 3. Assisting with creating awareness to set up IR’s 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > National Institutional repositories and Open Access for scholarly 
> > communication: a sensitization workshop took place at the State Library,

> > Maseru, Lesotho on April 24-26. Susan Veldsman attended this important 
> > event for the library community in Lesotho and for Swaziland. Hussein 
> > Suleman, Eve Gray and Monica Hammes were the resource people who joined 
> her. 
> > The two eIFL country coordinators involved in Lesotho and Swaziland, Drs

> > Matseliso Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa and Zipho Ngcobo gave the participants a

> > very interesting and insightful overview of their specific countries 
> > challenges and research status. This meeting was well attended by 40 
> > librarians (systems, acquisitions and information), researchers,
lectors, 
> > registrars and PVC’s of institution. The presentations were well
received 
> > and attendees were left inspired and motivated. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The action points that were identified at the end of the workshop by
ways 
> of 
> > discussion groups were: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > How to convince researchers and management 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > - Do more research on IR/OA to be better informed, look up other 
> > archives that are Open Access 
> > 
> > - Spread the message by word-of-mouth 
> > 
> > - Set up steering committees 
> > 
> > - Look into cost implications to convince management 
> > 
> > - Approach IT people for more support, then approach 
> > management/researchers 
> > 
> > - Install and experiment with open software for IR’s 
> > 
> > - Find active researchers who publish and mentor, find management 
> > champions 
> > 
> > - Try to determine how they will resist and deal with this by 
> > formulating active policies 
> > 
> > - Educate researchers and management 
> > 
> > - Argue for immediate recognition of research 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > An Open Access and Institutional repository sensitization workshop will
be 
> > held by Susan Veldsman and her team in Ghana on 12-13 June 2007. Helena 
> > Asamoah Hassan , eIFL country coordinator, will be facilitating this 
> > workshop in Ghana. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Melissa Hagemann and Prof. Xiaolin Zhang of the Library of the Chinese 
> > Academy of Sciences have participated in the eIFL sponsored Conference 
> > "Promoting 21st Century Scholarly Communication: The Open Access and 
> > Institutional Repository Movements” in Hong Kong on 17-18 May.
Additional 
> > information is available at HYPERLINK 
> > "http://lib.hku.hk/scholarly_communication/conf/index.html" \nlib.hku.hk

> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hope this has proved to be of interest? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > BUT……what is going on your country in terms of OA and setting up IR’s . 
> > Would you like to share with us? Please reply to this e-mail….and we can

> > all “see” what you are doing? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hope to hear from you soon. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > KIND REGARDS 
> > 
> > SUSAN 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> > 
> > Susan Veldsman 
> > 
> > eIFL content Manager 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 30 O'Reill Merry Street 
> > 
> > Northmead 
> > 
> > 1510 
> > 
> > South Africa 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tel: +27 11 425 4736 
> > 
> > Fax: +27 11 425 4737 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > +++++++++++++++++++++ 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Uganda Martyrs University 
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Kampala, Uganda 
Tel: +256-(0)38-410630 
Fax: +256-(0)38-410100 
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