EIFL and partners announce new open access project in Zimbabwe | EIFL

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-07

Summary:

"EIFL is delighted to announce a new project, ‘Advocacy for national open access mandate and management of open research data in Zimbabwe’, with the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium (ZULC), which is an EIFL partner consortium. Fourteen universities, all ZULC members, and the Research Council of Zimbabwe have set up open access (OA) repositories, but just three of them - Bindura University of Science Education, Lupane State University and Midlands State University - have OA mandates. Elsewhere, in government ministries and departments and in private sector organisations, there is very little appreciation or understanding of OA as a viable model of scholarly communication that is transforming generation and sharing of knowledge globally ..."

Link:

http://eifl.net/news/eifl-and-partners-announce-new-open-access-project-zimbabwe

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.eifl oa.zimbabwe oa.advocacy oa.africa oa.data oa.mandates oa.ir oa.green oa.repositories oa.policies oa.south

Date tagged:

11/07/2015, 07:19

Date published:

11/07/2015, 02:19