UoN Systems Librarian receives EPT Open Access Award | UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI LIBRARY

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-22

Summary:

"In recognition of the effort made by individuals working in the developing and emerging countries in the furtherance of Open Access (OA) to scholarly publications, Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) has awarded  Rosemary Otando The EPT Open Access Award 2013. Rosemary led OA activities in Kenya, raising awareness among different academic groups, and been instrumental in establishing the University of Nairobi OA Policy and OA repository. In addition, she has been active in training, and in facilitating the establishment of 20 institutional OA repositories in the country. Prof. Leslie Chan who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough handed the certificate to Rosemary in a colourful event held at International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Nairobi ..."

Link:

http://uonlibrary.uonbi.ac.ke/node/1054

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.awards oa.kenya oa.africa oa.south oa.announcements

Date tagged:

05/22/2014, 14:25

Date published:

05/22/2014, 10:25