...Susan Veldsman attended this important event for the library community in Lesotho and for Swaziland. Hussein Suleman, Eve Gray and Monica Hammes were the resource people who joined her. This meeting was well attended by 40 librarians (systems, acquisitions and information), researchers, lectors, registrars and PVC’s of institution. The presentations were well received and attendees were left inspired and motivated.
The action points that were identified at the end of the workshop by ways of discussion groups were:
How to convince researchers and management
Do more research on IR/OA to be better informed, look up other archives that are Open Access;
Spread the message by word-of-mouth;
Set up steering committees;
Look into cost implications to convince management;
Approach IT people for more support, then approach management/researchers;
Install and experiment with open software for IR’s;
Find active researchers who publish and mentor, find management champions;
Try to determine how they will resist and deal with this by formulating active policies;
Educate researchers and management;
Argue for immediate recognition of research.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/08/2007 04:34:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
