EIFL-OA in action

EIFL-OA Advocacy Campaign grants

These videos were created as a result of small grants provided by EIFL to support national and institutional open access advocacy campaigns and to support publishing initiatives. Learn more about all the activites from the 13 grantees. 

	Description: Researchers and Faculty of the University of Tartu talk about OA International Open Access Week at the University of Tartu Library (in Estonian, with English subtitles)
	Description: Various stakeholders share their views of institional repositories at the University of Tartu  UT Digital DSpace - do it yourself (in Estonian)
	Description: How to encourage OA?  Various stakeholders share their views. Film created by Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (in Lithuanian)
	Description: Why is OA important? Various stakeholders share their views. Film created by Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (in Lithuanian)
	Description: What is OA?  Various stakeholders share their views. Film created by Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (in Lithuanian)
	Description: Researchers, Research Administrators and Journal Editors talk about OA in Ukraine. (in Ukrainian)

EIFL partner countries advocate for open access

Library engages researchers in open access in Ghana
	Description: Helena Asamoah Hassan shares experience of advocating for open access in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Interviewee: Helena Asamoah Hassan, library director, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, EIFL country coordinator in Ghana and a Chair of EIFL Advisory Board
The role of libraries in the open access movement
	Description: Matseliso (Tseli) Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa speaks about open access benefits and why librarians should advocate for open access to research information. Interviewee: Matseliso (Tseli) Moshoeshoe-Chadzingwa, National University of Lesotho, EIFL country coordinator and EIFL Advisory Board member
Benefits of open access for researchers
	Description: Gintare Tautkeviciene speaks about open access benefits for researchers such as increased visibility, usage and citations. Interviewee: Gintare Tautkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, EIFL Open Access country coordinator and EIFL Advisory Board member
Open access in developing countries
	Description: Kay Raseroka speaks about how open access helps to connect researchers, encourages synergies and reuse of knowledge, and helps to communicate indigenous knowledge to new generations Interviewee: Kay Raseroka, retired library director, University of Botswana, and a former EIFL Advisory Board member (2008-2010)
Knowledge production and dissemination and open access
	Description: Sreten Ugricic speaks about deconstructing an illusion that knowledge production and dissemination can be efficient only in a profit oriented environment and the benefits of SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online. Interviewee: Sreten Ugricic, philosopher, writer, director of the National library of Serbia and former EIFL Advisory Board member (2008-2010)
Open access in Palestine
	Description: Diana Sayej-Naser speaks about open access benefits and projects in PALICO and Birzeit University, including an open access book project at the Law Faculty. Interviewee: Diana Sayej-Naser, library director, Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine, EIFL country coordinator in Palestine and former EIFL Advisory Board member (2008-2010)

Interviews were all conducted by Leslie Chan of Bioline International, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Rosalie Lack, EIFL, during EIFL General Assembly 2010, Lund, Sweden, August 6 - 8, 2010.

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Open access repository team of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana, interviewed a senior researcher  and a senior assistant librarian  about open access benefits.

Danstone Malava, Kimathi University College of Technology, Library Department, Nyeri, Kenya, created the videos: What a wonderful experience with open access, Sustainable access to knowledge courtesy of open access  and Untitled.

Master’s Degrees students of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication of Information of the State University of Moldova and EIFL-OA Moldova team created a video about the importance of Open Access for science and education (in Romanian).

Tartu University interviewed their researchers about OA benefits (in Estonian).

Oleksandra Yaroshenko, student of the Master’s Program in Journalism, the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), released a video (in Ukrainian) NaUKMA supports Open Access to Knowledge.

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Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango discusses the importance of open access for research from Kenya and other African countries.

Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology discussed the challenges she faced when trying to publish her original research on African Indigenous Vegetables (AIV) in "international" journals, and the importance of Open Access journals in Africa in ensuring that important research relevant to the continent are being published, read, and applied. The implications of Open Access for development in African countries were also discussed. The interview was recorded on Feb. 19th, 2010 at the University of Nairobi during a Workshop on Increasing the Impact of Research through Open Access, co-hosted by the University of Nairobi Library, EIFL and Bioline International.

Open Access Journal Publishing in South Africa Professor Pierre de Villiers, founder of OpenJournals Publishing and African Online Scientific Information System, discusses the philosophy of the company, the sustainability of open access publishing in South Africa, and the importance and benefits of Open Access for journals from South Africa and other regions of the continent.

Dr. Paul Nampala explains the benefits of Open Access for African Crop Science Journal. Dr. Paul Nampala, Science Editor of African Crop Science Journal (ACSJ), and Executive Secretary of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, discusses the challenges and opportunities of scholarly publishing in Africa. Paul explains the reasons why ACSJ is providing free online access to the full text of the journal on Bioline International, and he discusses what greater visibility and usage of ACSJ may mean in terms of greater collaboration between scientists from different regions, as well as the relations between Open Access and the Millennium Development Goals.

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