2ND INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS CONFERENCE LAUNCHED IN KNUST

"BioMed Central in partnership with Computer Aid Foundation have organised a two- day Open Access Africa Conference at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Currently, Sub- Saharan Africa remains the least developed region of the world in the area of research. This is partly attributed to inability of research centres in developing countries to pay for the high cost of online journal access as well as subscriptions to print versions. It is in this regard that BioMed Central, a UK based open access publisher has launched a campaign to address this problem in ensuring the widespread dissemination of scientific research with a set of initiatives designed to encourage African researchers to publish their work in open access journals. Through Open Access, users will have no subscription barriers to journals and full advantage of the internet can be utilised to allow universal access to these journals...."