[Irtalk] FW: [Dspace-general] Open Access Week: DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture

[Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>]

From: Carol Minton Morris [mailto:cmmorris at fedora-commons.org]
Sent: 25 October 2011 17:47
To: SPARC-IR at arl.org; SPARC-OAForum at arl.org; dspace-general at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Dspace-general] Open Access Week: DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

In celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011, DuraSpace takes a look at DSpace Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in a five-part series co-authored by Open Access advocates, librarians and repository managers:

* Monday, Oct. 24 "DSpace in Africa: Growing Open Access to Knowledge and Culture (Botwana, Ethiopia, Ghana)"
read post<http://duraspace.org/dspace-africa-growing-open-access-knowledge-and-culture>

* Tuesday, Oct. 25 "DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Kenya, Malawi"
read post<http://duraspace.org/dspace-open-access-repository-development-africa-mozambique-senegal>

* Wednesday, Oct. 26 "DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Mozambique, Senegal"
To come

* Thursday, Oct. 27 "DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Sudan, South Africa"
To come

* Friday, Oct 28 "DSpace Open Access repository development in Africa: Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe"
To come

All five articles released throughout Open Access Week may be accessed at DuraSpace.org (http://duraspace.org) or the Open Access Week blog (http://www.openaccessweek.org/).

"... Learning and inquiry are impeded when scholars lack access to fellow researchers' work, and when students lack access to the work of scholars before them." -Student Statement on The Right to Research<http://righttoresearch.org/>

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Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org<mailto:cmmorris at DuraSpace.org>
Skype: carolmintonmorris
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