The first results of OA advocacy campaigns in EIFL partner countries | EIFL

"Ghana’s Open Access Institutional Repositories Advocacy Campaign is proving to be very successful. It is implemented by Ghana’s consortia,CARLIGH, c/o Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partnership with AAU and with financial support from EIFL. Their advocacy campaign is designed to raise awareness of open access with government officials and the research community. Among their activities was a two-day workshop on Open Access Institutional Repository Advocacy,18-19 July 2011, that they organised in collaboration with AAU (Association of African Universities), Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH), and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT, the Netherlands)...."