Iryna Kuchma

EIFL releases a report, ‘Landscape of no-fee #OpenAccess publishing in #Africa’, that provides an overview of #DiamondOA journals and platforms https://www.eifl.net/programme/oa-publishing-africa/landscape-no-fee-open-access-publishing-africa. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

Check out an updated version of EIFL's checklist of good practices in using Open Journal Systems software (OJS) @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social for #openaccess journal editing and publishing https://eifl.net/resources/eifl-checklist-good-practices-using-open-journal-systems-software-ojs-journal-editing-1 with Milica Ševkušić @lessormore@mstdn.social

So happy to see 45 colleagues joining EIFL #OpenScience train-the-trainer bootcamp! Milica @lessormore@mstdn.social starts the day with copyright and #openaccess training approaches #EIFL_OSbootcamp

🇺🇦 The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine hosted the kick-off meeting of #OpenScience for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) project: https://lpnu.ua/en/news/ministry-education-and-science-ukraine-hosted-kick-meeting-open4ua-project and in Ukrainian https://lpnu.ua/news/v-ministerstvi-osvity-i-nauky-ukrainy-vidbulas-startova-zustrich-proiektu-open4ua
EIFL is happy and honoured to be a partner https://www.eifl.net/eifl-in-action/open-science-ukrainian-higher-education-system-open4ua-project advancing research assessment reform and fostering national and institutional open science policy developments

How do you bring together #OpenScience trainers from #Africa, #Asia and #Europe? Some reflections from the EIFL online train-the-trainer bootcamp with @jonatortue@mastodon.oeru.org @lessormore@mstdn.social @njezire@mstdn.social Ljiljana Radisavljević & Obrad Vučkovac https://eifl.net/blogs/open-science-train-trainer-tips #EIFL_OSbootcamp

🎉 Celebrating the launch of the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources institutional repository organised by the Department of Library and Information Services https://researchhub.buan.ac.bw/. Congratulations to everyone involved!

🎉 Thank you everyone who contributed, it was a wonderful week & empowering as Gloria said @ EIFL #OpenScience train-the-trainer bootcamp with @lessormore@mstdn.social @njezire@mstdn.social Jonathan England, Ljiljana Radisavljević, Obrad Vučkovac #EIFL_OSbootcamp

🇺🇦 #OpenScience for Ukrainian Higher Education System (Open4UA) Erasmus+ project launched in November that will foster national and institutional open science reform and advance research assessment reform https://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-joins-open4ua-project-ukraine

Launching Collaboration for sustainable #openaccess publishing in #Africa project with AJOL and WACREN, funded by Wellcome https://www.eifl.net/news/new-project-strengthen-diamond-oa-africa 🎉 #DiamondOpenAccess

Looks interesting and useful: Roberts, T. , & Bosch, T. (Ed.). (2023). Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression. London: Zed Books. Retrieved August 4, 2023, from http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350324497

Kudos to CARLIGH - Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Ghana for boosting #openaccess: 16 new/improved repositories & three OJS workshops reaching 240 journal managers & editors, authors, librarians & IT staff from 19 institutions https://eifl.net/news/eifl-support-boosts-open-access-ghana

🎉 Happy BOAI's 21st Anniversary! Glad to see many #BOAI20 recommendations being implemented:
1. Host OA research on open infrastructure
2. Reform research assessment & rewards to improve incentives
3. Favour inclusive publishing & distribution channels
4. Remember the goals to which OA is the means. Favour models which benefit all regions of the world, controlled by academic-led & nonprofit organizations & avoid concentrating literature in commercially dominant journals https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

📢 Join us for the online meet-up of #openscience trainers and share your training challenges and successes! We will also show updated EIFL resources for trainers
:ms_calendar_spiral: 28 February at 09:00 UTC
ℹ️ https://www.eifl.net/events/eifl-webinar-open-science-trainers
with @lessormore@mstdn.social

🇪🇹 21 more journals added to Ethiopian #openaccess journals platform http://ejol.aau.edu.et/ hosted by Addis Ababa University as part of EIFL's ‘Enhancing Ethiopian Journals Online’ project. New platform look and feel is coming soon with updated editorial policies & guidelines: https://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-support-energizes-ethiopia-oa-journals-sector