FW: [eifloa] REPORT BACK: OA ACTIVITIES
Susan Veldsman
susan.veldsman at eifl.net
Mon May 28 18:51:11 EEST 2007
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
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-----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
>
>
>
>
>
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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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