Open access advocacy in Zambia | EIFL

"Zambia Library Consortium (ZALICO) has launched a national open access (OA) advocacy project that aims to transform Zambia’s research landscape. The project is supported by EIFL, and aims to encourage OA uptake through advocacy, OA policy formulation, and to increase OA publishing in order to improve accessibility and visibility of research. During events to launch the advocacy project (a series of three-day workshops held on 10-12 June), it became clear that there has been great progress with respect to OA in Zambia, but there is still work to be done to embed OA in research processes. I was happy to take part in the workshops, and to share ideas with over 50 research managers, researchers and lecturers from six ZALICO member institutions ..."