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Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries – an updated version after commentsThe first version of the report was released on July 7, 2010 with request for comments and more case studies on using open content licenses by open access journals and open access repositories in developing and transition countries. This is a second revised version of the report with more case studies from Poland provided by Bożena Bednarek-Michalska, Torun University Library.
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Report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition countries is releasedThe survey attempted to gather information from a broad spectrum of research institutions in developing and transition countries in order to get a better understanding of the current state of the implementation of open content licenses. Open content licenses or some explicit statement attached to the article when it is published in an open access journal or deposited in an open access repository ...
Armenia FOSS ILS UpdateBackground
Open Society Institute (OSI) Armenia support for the Armenian library community started in 1997, with assistance implementing ICT and computer networks in the libraries, training courses for librarians and increasing internet access.
In 2001, an OSI grant supported the creation of the Armenian Libraries Union Catalogue (http://www.armunicat.am:8991/ALEPH) for 11 leading libraries, ...
Celebrate the first-ever international Open Access Week with us!The first international Open Access Week for Open Access to research, October 19 – 23, 2009, has arrived! Hundreds of leading academic and research sites in over 30 countries will mark the week in unique ways, and express their support for the advancement of knowledge through free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.
Open Access Week is designed to help raise ...
The first Evergreen International Conference, 2009 Athens (USA) – reportThe first Evergreen International Conference was held in Athens (USA) on May 20-22, 2009. I submitted a presentation “Evergreen in Armenia” and after acceptance of the paper by the Conference Organizing Committee, eIFL sponsored my trip and Conference participation.More than 150 participants (most from USA and Canada) were attending this meeting, and according to overall ...
Evergreen Training for Ilia Chavchavadze State University Library StaffThe Fundamental Scientific Library (FSL) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of Armenia is actively involved in implementing the Evergreen FOSS ILS in the NAS institution libraries and in advocating the system amongst the librarians from the developing countries. During April 6-7 Ilia Chavchavadze State University (Tbilsi, Georgia) library director Natia Gabrichidze and two IT specialists ...
From Armenia to Mali: eIFL librarians contribute to international FOSS community“Community” is a key word for free and open source software (FOSS). This is because FOSS is typically developed in an open manner. The more people participating, the stronger the community who contribute ideas, feedback and even software code. The result is better software that meets the needs of the user community.
The eIFL-FOSS programme aims to raise ...
Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Yerevan, ArmeniaOn October 15-16, 2008, eIFL.net, Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and Electronic Library Consortium of Armenia (ELCA) organised Open Access Awareness Raising workshop in Yerevan.
Fundamental Library of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia supported by the Open Society Assistance Foundation created a platform for high quality ...
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