FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES[Scanned]
Susan Veldsman
susan.veldsman at eifl.net
Mon Jun 4 19:57:16 EEST 2007
Dear Charles,
This is a great beginning! It will definitely help you to advocate, market
and implement an IR in the end! Congratulations and hope to hear some
progress soon.
KIND REGARDS
SUSAN
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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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From: Charles B. M. Lungu [mailto:cbmlungu at cbu.ac.zm]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 4:37 PM
To: Susan Veldsman
Subject: RE: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES[Scanned]
Dear Susan
At the Copperbelt University we have just had the policy paper on IR
approved by the Senate Library Committee. Once full Senate approves then we
will go into implementation stage. We thought it was important that the
academic community should understand and accept the concept in form of a
policy. It will be easier to appeal to academic staff to deposit their
publications and research results, as well as getting the necessary funding
and IT support, if there is an institutional policy in place.
We hope to learn from the experiences of our colleagues in the eifl family.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Veldsman [mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net]
Sent: 04 June 2007 12:47
To: eifloa at eifl.net
Subject: FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES[Scanned]
Dear Rostyslav,
Thank you so much with sharing this with us, this is very interesting and
very proactive! Well done!
I also checked your websites, and yes it has the potential to grow into a
great value adding service for your institution and your country!
I will certainly update my records with the info you have given me.
THANKS!
BEST 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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From: Rostyslav Khomyk [mailto:rostik at ucu.edu.ua]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:15 AM
To: Susan Veldsman
Cc: Jeffrey Wills
Subject: Re: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES
Dear Susan,
Last week in Kiev was seminar about Instittutional repositories.
There were people from different universities, libraries and other
organizations who involved in Digital Archives.
I had a presentation of our Dspace instatllation, Databases with OAI
interface and our Harvester.
HYPERLINK "http://repository.ucu.edu.ua"http://repository.ucu.edu.ua
HYPERLINK "http://dspace.ucu.edu.ua"http://dspace.ucu.edu.ua
also we are collocate installation for other partners like "Centre for
Humanities"
HYPERLINK "http://www.humanities.org.ua"http://www.humanities.org.ua
HYPERLINK "http://dspace.humanities.org.ua"http://dspace.humanities.org.ua
These resources are still on enhencement, and number of documents (db
records ) putted in open access may grow.
The goal of this seminar was to excange experience do updates about our work
with IR and OAI and think about the ways how to create the OAI community in
Ukraine like SHERPA.
Our university took the job to create Wiki-based resource for documentation
and experience exchange for OAI based archives and Dspace installation.
It will be available on HYPERLINK
"http://www.repository.org.ua"http://www.repository.org.ua/ - domain is
already registered and configured.
This means that our University does real steps for OAI implementations,
using experience gained on Berlin and Glasgow conferences with eIFL support.
Please contact me if you have any additional questions.
______________________________________________________
Khomyk Rostyslav
Director of the IT Department
Ukrainian Catholic University
ICQ#: 78098856
Work Tel#: 240-94-90, 240-99-40
Fax#: 240-99-50
HYPERLINK "http://it.ucu.edu.ua/"http://it.ucu.edu.ua
______________________________________________________
On 1 Чер 2007, at 13:03, Susan Veldsman wrote:
Dear all,
Does somebody else have something to share with us?
KIND REGARDS
SUSAN
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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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From: Ezra Shiloba Gbaje [HYPERLINK
"mailto:shiloba at yahoo.com"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 <HYPERLINK
"mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net"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
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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) [HYPERLINK
"mailto:teresa.hackett at eifl.net"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.
HYPERLINK
"http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/handbook/eifl-hand
b"http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/handbook/eifl-han
db
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
> "HYPERLINK
"http://lib.hku.hk/scholarly_communication/conf/index.html"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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