Africa: Open Access Week 2009

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

This is not an exhaustive list of countries. If you want to add your event and your country is not listed here feel free to add it in alphabetical order.

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North Africa

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Northeastern Africa

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Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

• Contact: Richard B. Lamptey, Institutional Repository, K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi-Ghana
• Location:Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
• Link for more details, if available:http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/oa-news/2009_11_10_open-access-week-at

Mozambique

Universidade Politécnica

• Contact: Aissa Mitha Issak
• Location:Universidade Politécnica, Mozambique
• Link for more details, if available:http://www.ispu.ac.mz/

South Africa

Durban University of Technology

• Contact: Kusturie Moodley
• Location:Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Link for more details, if available:http://ir.dut.ac.za (DUTIR)

University of Johannesburg

• Contact:Barrie Swanepoel
• Location: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Link for more details, if available: http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za (UJDigispace)

University of Pretoria

• Contact: Elsabé Olivier
• Location: University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Link for more details, if available: https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/ (UPSpace)

and http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/oaday.htm

University of South Africa

• Contact: Ansie van der Westhuizen
• Location: University of South Africa, South Africa
• Link for more details, if available: http://uir.unisa.ac.za/ (UnisaIR)

University of Stellenbosch

• Contact:Ina Smith
• Location: University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
• Link for more details, if available: http://etd.sun.ac.za/jspui/ (SUNeTD)

University of the Western Cape

• Contact:Allison Fullard
• Location: University of the Western Cape, South Africa
• Link for more details: http://www.uwc.ac.za/library

UWC Library invited academics to a lunchtime talk, entitled “Putting South African research on the map: Open Access as a strategic tool for researchers”, presented by Eve Gray. We also hosted an Early Adoptors meeting to brief interested researchers who had expressed an interest in working with UWC's pilot Repository, which launched during OA Week

Zimbabwe

the University of Zimbabwe

• * Location:the University of Zimbabwe
• Link for more details, if available:the University of Zimbabwe Libraries released a beautiful Open Access Week web-page and organised a wide range of activites (http://www.openaccessweek.org/2009/10/20/todays-oa-week-activities-at-the-university-of-zimbabwe-library/)