Addis Ababa University (AAU) Libraries, the Vice President Office for Research and Technology Transfer of AAU, Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) and EIFL will host an Open access policy workshop on November 27, 2014.

The workshop will advocate the need for institutional open access policy and encourage University officials to articulate one for Addis Ababa University. A draft workshop agenda is available here [PDF].

EIFL Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma will attend and speak at the workshop. Among other speakers - Eloy Rodrigues, Director – University of Minho Documentation Services; Dr. George Gitau Njoroge, Chief University Librarian, Kenyatta University; Abenet Yabowork, Knowledge Curation Manager, International Livestock Research Institute, and Solomon Mekonnen, Assistant University Librarian for Technical Processing at Addis Ababa University, and EIFL-OA country coordinator.