No. 47 - September-October 2010
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
The September-October issue of the eIFL Newsletter is now online. See Section 5 on OA, with these stories: "Open access policy and institutional repository released at workshop in Kenya. OpenAIRE releases Guidelines 1.0 of OpenAIRE. Open access mandate adopted by V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. A call to the African Union to consider Open Access policies, publishing, and repositories." Excerpts: "On August 30, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and EIFL organised a workshop, “Benefits of Open Access for Research Dissemination, Usage, Visibility and Impact.” At the workshop, JKUAT faculty members and administration introduced an open access policy and an open access institutional repository was launched....The open access policy adopted by V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University mandates that all published journal articles and conference papers be deposited in the open access institutional repository eKhNUIR if there are no legal objections by publishers...."