NWU Open Access Week 2017 – North-West University Library News

"The NWU Library & Information Service and LIASA North-West celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Open Access Week.  In line with this year’s theme:  “Open in order to…”, the Libraries aimed to raise awareness and promote Open Access to the academic and research community. The launch of Open Access Week was on Monday 23 October at Mahikeng Library with Dr Reggie Raju from UCT Libraries and Ms Denise Nicholson from WITS Library attending as guest speakers.  Dr Raju presented on the topic “Open in order to promote social justice”.  His presentation focused on how open access can be used to promote social justice in the African context.  His emphasis was on ensuring that research output from African public universities reach as many people as possible with no access or fee restrictions as part of these universities’ contribution to social justice."