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eIFL.net: Open Access & the Developing World
Presented by:
Nasser Saleh,Queen’s Engineering & Science Library
Executive Director: Librarians Without Borders (Canada)
eIFL.net
4,000 libraries in 46 countries
eIFL.net programs
• Advocating for affordable and fair access to commercially produced scholarly resources (Negotiations)
• 1+1=More and better. Consortium building
• Promoting a culture of cooperation: knowledge and information sharing
eIFL.net programs
• Advocacy for access to knowledge:copyright and libraries (eIFL‐IP)
• Promoting free and open source softwarefor libraries (eIFL‐FOSS)
• Open access (eIFL‐OA)
Negotiations• eIFL.net is advocating for
affordable access to commercially produced electronic journals and databases through collective negotiations with publishers and aggregators
• negotiation activity includes not only obtaining affordable prices, but also establishing fair terms and conditions for access to those resources by library users in developing and transitional countries
Consortium building• eIFL.net assists the
countries in the building of sustainable national library consortia (so far 40 consortia)
• a wide range of activities underpins this goal including: training events, national and regional workshops and meetings, individual country visits, grants, manuals, web resources
eIFL Knowledge Sharing
• Providing ICT tools such as a dynamic website
• Distributing a regular newsletter
• Workshops and training seminars
• Annual General Assembly
eIFL‐IP: Copyright for libraries• to maximize access to
knowledge via libraries for education, research and the public through fair and balanced copyright lawsthat take into account the needs of their users
• to raise awareness of libraries and copyright, and to empower the eIFL.net community to become advocates and proponents of fair access for all
eIFL Handbook on Copyright
eIFL‐IP: Copyright for libraries 2
Highlights from 2008:
• eIFL.net staff with coordinators from South Africa, Ukraine and Zambia provided national copyright information for the WIPO commissioned study on library copyright exceptions and limitations covering 149 countries
eIFL‐IP: Copyright for libraries 3
Highlights from 2008 continued:
• eIFL.net and the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) agreed to cooperate on copyright and European bi‐lateral trade agreements
• Responded to European Commission Green Paper consultation on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy
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Highlights from 2008 continued:
• Held first annual eIFL‐IP global conference, attended by over 40 countries (and in March 2009 the second global conference for eIFL‐IP coordinators took place)
• Joint eIFL/IFLA/EBLIDA conference on copyright and libraries with 50+ librarians from Moldova and region plus policymakers
• First self‐organised seminar by regional eIFL‐IP representatives in Zambia
eIFL‐IP: Copyright for libraries 5Highlights from 2009:
• eIFL.net and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are the founding partners for "Copyright Watch: an online resource", a collaborative effort to build a central, publicly accessible, online collection of national copyright laws and related documents.
• eIFL‐IP Draft Law on Copyright Including Model Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Consumers.
eIFL‐FOSS• Success of the Greenstone pilot in Southern Africa, leading to the SA Greenstone Support Network
• First Southern African Greenstone Support Network workshop in Tanzania (Oct. 26, 2009)
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• Launch of Integrated Library Systems (ILS) project and FOSS ILS Case Studies Published.
• Each pilot institution will install and evaluate either the Koha or Evergreen FOSS ILS.
Koha sites:– An-Najah National University Library, Palestine– Library of the Faculty of Medicine Pharmacy and Dentistry, University of Bamako, Mali– Mzuzu University, Malawi– National Scientific Library, GeorgiaEvergreen sites:– Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia– Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal– Midlands State University Library, Zimbabwe
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• UNESCO award for a Linux Thin Server Project How To Guide from Birzeit University in Palestine to help libraries extend or maximize the usefulness of old computers.
• eIFL‐FOSS Skills and Tools Workshops initiative: Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Senegal, Zimbabwe
eIFL Open Access
eIFL Open Access 2Focus for 2009/10:
• Open access policies to be adopted by research funding agencies, universities and research organisations in eIFL.net network
• Sustainability of open repositories within the eIFL.net network
eIFL Open Access 3• Turning pilot repositories into strong operational tools (open access resources create value through the impact they have on users)
• Watching briefs on open access to data and open educational resources
eIFL Open Access 4Coming soon:
• Evaluation of Institutional Repository Development in Developing and Transition Countries – a cooperative program between eIFL.net, the University of Kansas Libraries, the DRIVER project and Key Perspectives Ltd
• case studies on institutional repositories from eIFL network.
OA mandatessix open access institutional mandates
in China, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine:
• National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science,
• Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI) of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS),
• Vologda scientific‐coordination centre of CEMI RAS,
• Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS,
• the University of Pretoria, South Africa,
• and Ternopil State Ivan Pul'uj Technical University, Ukraine
OA policiesEIFL network in Belarus, Hong Kong, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine is getting into some important national milestones:
• A new Lithuanian law on science requires online access for publicly‐funded research and Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network was recognised as one the most active players in the field of open access in Lithuania
• Poland's Ministry of Science and Higher Education is considering open access mandate for publicly‐funded research
OA policies 2
• Ukraine started implementing its OA mandate (law of Ukraine), 26 rectors endorsed OA to research information in the Olvia declaration of the Universities.
• Academic Freedom, University Autonomy, Science and Education for Sustainable Development; and more than 150 University librarians endorsed OA to knowledge statement
OA policies 3• The Academy of Science and the Department of Science and Technology in South Africa has adopted open access business model for their journals (SciELO South Africa)
• Hong Kong Universities proposed open access policy for publicly‐funded research and all of them have institutional repositories
• In Belarus, Russia and Ukraine University consortium endorsed Belgorod declaration on open access to scientific knowledge and cultural heritage
OA repositories• A steady growth in the quantities and qualities of open repositories and open access journals in eIFL.net network: 162 open repositories in 28 countries
• Among the repositories registered in ROAR, UPSpace at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, was the 9th
hardworking repository in the world (repositories which receive regular daily deposits)
Open DOAR
OA workshops 2009Advocacy and capacity building workshops
• Balkan countries,
• Southern African countries,
• Russian speaking librarians,
• Nepal ,
• and Palestine
OA in Palestine• Open access is a viable solution
to existing problems in the scholarly communication – this statement is especially relevant in Palestine where geographical barriers, walls and checkpoints are a restriction to movement.
• The workshop was held in West Bank and video conference with participants from Gaza Strip.
Workshop Outcome
• Birzeit university library in Palestine, Tromsø university library and Telemark university college library in Norway have decided to work together to promote the development and establishment of an open research repository for theses and scientific publications from Birzeit University and after the successful pilot turn it into a shared repository for the research outputs from Palestine.
OA workshops 2009‐10Plans:
Advocacy and capacity building workshops in • Latvia, • Malawi,• Nigeria,• Russia, • Senegal,• Poland• and Kenya
Plans
eIFL‐DRIVER partnership
• to register repositories from eIFL.net network so that their contents are harvested periodically, indexed into the DRIVER platform and presented in the DRIVER European Repository search portal
Driver : EU Repository
Increased global visibility and wider distribution
Support
eIFL.net network is grateful to the following organizations for their support:
• Wellcome Trust,
• Open Society Institute
• and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Thank you!Questions?
For more information about eIFL‐OA
Please contact: Iryna Kuchma
iryna.kuchma[at]eifl.net;www.eifl.net
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