Open access policies in Kenya and Moldova | EIFL

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-19

Summary:

"... Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Open Access Institutional Repository, Kenya ... Open access (OA) was first introduced to Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Library  through a workshop entitled, “The Benefits of OA for Research Dissemination, Usage, Visibility and Impact” funded by EIFL in August 2010. One of the outcomes of the workshop was the creation of an all inclusive committee with a mandate to write an OA institutional policy. The committee was chaired by Professor Kamau Ngamau, the Dean of Faculty of Agriculture. The JKUAT OA policy was adopted on the 22nd of June 2012 and the OA Institutional Repository (IR) was set up. With this policy in place, the library decided that the next step should be to raise awareness of both the OA policy and the OA IR ... Open Access – Optimizing Scholarly Communication in Moldova ... There are four OA journals published in Moldova by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Presa Universitara Balteana and Alecu Russo State University of Bălţi. The Library community has been active in the OA movement, but there were no OA IR and no OA policies in the country. The project objectives were to: develop and approve an OA policy at the Academy of Economic Studies (AESM); launch an OA IR; share information about OA in the national language; increase awareness of OA among faculty and students; identify OA advocates to continue promoting OA on campus and in the country; train and encourage other universities and research organizations in the country to follow AESM's approach..."

Link:

http://www.eifl.net/news/open-access-policies-kenya-and-moldova

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

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oa.new oa.gold oa.mandates oa.green oa.advocacy oa.libraries oa.ir oa.librarians oa.case oa.reports oa.africa oa.kenya oa.jkuat oa.moldova oa.eifl oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals oa.south

Date tagged:

02/19/2013, 15:40

Date published:

02/19/2013, 10:40