The version to which I've linked is an image scan of a print original. I don't have time to rekey excerpts and appreciate this summary from eIFL.net:
Ezra Shiloba Gbaje, librarian of the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, and eIFL OA country coordinator, gives a detailed account of the first national OA/IR workshop that was held on April 28-29 thanks to an eIFL.net grant. Through the article, Ezra highlights the benefits of Open Access for the scholarly community and society at large. The purpose of the workshop was to raise more awareness of Open Access journals and Institutional repositories in Nigeria, a country that cannot afford to pay the high subscription fees of traditional publishing. eIFL OA program manager Iryna Kuchma and other renowned international specialists discussed IRs software solutions, copyright issues, advocacy and policymaking strategies and promotional and marketing efforts with a large audience of scholars, policy-makers, university and systems librarians and ICT experts. Currently, the Kashim Ibrahim Library at the Ahmadu Bello University is populating its pilot Institutional repository using DSpace, the first of its kind in West Africa.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/03/2008 11:19:00 AM.
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.
