Open access advocacy in Uganda and Zimbabwe | EIFL

Promoting the adoption of campus-based, faculty-driven open access (OA) policies in Uganda ...  The main goals of the project, implemented by the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) - which includes 24 public and private universities and research organizations - were to encourage member institutions to promote the adoption of campus-based, faculty-driven OA policies and to encourage the creation of OA institutional repositories (IRs) ...  Capacity building for the adoption and implementation of open access (OA) policies and OA repositories in Zimbabwe  ... Most of the universities and research institutions in Zimbabwe have embraced OA initiatives and have created OA Institutional Repositories (IR), however most have not formally implemented OA policies. Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC), a consortium of 12 University libraries, took the initiative to start discussions at the national level about OA policies by organizing a workshop for key stakeholders at universities, the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education and at research organizations.   This project builds on the success of the EIFL-funded University of Zimbabwe 2011 OA Advocacy Campaign 'Say No! To Secret Knowledge: Support OA' (see the case study PDF) which resulted in drafting an OA institutional mandate. The draft has been submitted to the Vice Chancellor’s Office for his comments. The next steps are that it will be presented to the Academic Committee and then to the Senate for approval..."