[IRTalk] FW: Open Access Symposium 2016

[Ina Smith]

From: heligliasa at googlegroups.com [mailto:heligliasa at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ingrid Thomson
Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 12:04 PM
To: heligliasa at googlegroups.com; liasaonline at googlegroups.com; africa-l at infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [heligliasa] Open Access Symposium 2016

Dear Colleagues

The University of Cape Town Libraries, in collaboration with SPARC Africa, SPARC US and LIASA, is pleased to announce an Open Access Symposium in Cape Town, 3-9 December 2016.

The theme for the meeting is Empowerment through open scholarship: transcending boundaries. The theme exploits ‘openness’ to foster collaborative research activities and sharing that transcend the boundaries of resources and capacity, and brings researchers and readers into one global community. The openness discourse will centre around: open source; open access to scholarship; open data; open education resources; and open publishing. The most significant ‘take-away’ from the symposium is strategies for empowerment and strategies for innovation for the betterment of society.

The symposium will play host to a range of national and international experts on ‘open’.

The target audience for this meeting is librarians and information workers, researchers, funding agencies, LIS associations, university executives, LIS students and government officials.

The broad programme is as follows:
Date

Event

3-4 December 2016

Workshop on OA tools – repository tools (e.g. DSpace) and publishing tools (e.g. OJS, OMP)

5 December 2016

‘Africa connect’ – pre-symposium meeting

6 December 2016

SPARC Africa strategic planning

7-9 December 2016

Symposium


Venue: Cape Town, South Africa (more details to follow)

As more details become available, it will be added to the symposium website: http://www.openaccess.lib.uct.ac.za/open-access-symposium-2016

Enquiries can be directed to:

Jill Claassen
Email: openuct at uct.ac.za<mailto:openuct at uct.ac.za>
Tel: +27 21 650 1263
or
Jeremiah Pietersen
Email: Jeremiah.Pietersen at uct.ac.za<mailto:Jeremiah.Pietersen at uct.ac.za>
Tel: +27 21 650 3728

Kind regards
Jeremiah (on behalf of the organizing committee)

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