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#ETD2024 Listening to Hussein Suleman present the NDLTD Global ETD Search, a tool that shows the power of what’s possible if #Metadata are properly created and shared💡 search.ndltd.org

Great to have Josiline Chigwada presenting about #ZULC efforts to increase awareness and implementation of #PIDs in Zimbabwe. More info on zulc.ac.zw/datacite/ #ETD2024

Missed EIFL webinar with Toby Steiner Toby Steiner Thoth (@[email protected]) on Thoth Open Metadata: supporting small- to medium-sized publishers across the globe? Check out slides and recording here: eifl.net/resources/eifl… doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… youtube.com/watch?v=C_s9xG…

🇺🇦 Welcome to #UOSF, Ukrainian Open Science Forum 2024, an event that brings together international experts to foster the development of #OpenScience in Ukraine and globally by sharing ideas, hosting discussions, and informing policy! 👉Free registration - bit.ly/4fpttxW

#UOSF2024 will be held at Львівська політехніка from 21 to 23 November 2024 in a hybrid format. It is the final event of the Erasmus+ Optima Project aimed at implementing #OpenScience in Ukraine. It will bring together experts from different countries, both in-person and virtually.

👏 Congratulations to WoW: Wheels of Wisdom – selected as one of the top 100 innovations to watch in 2025 by HundrED.org bit.ly/3Z74SrN. WoW also won an EIFL Public Library Innovation Award bit.ly/EIFLIA21Wow Thanks for sharing the news WoW!

Productive meetings - Rima Kupryte, EIFL Director completed a week in #Lao People's Democratic Republic meeting partners University of #Luxembourg / LuxDev & National University of Laos. Thank-you! National University of Laos (ມະຫາວິທະຍາໄລແຫ່ງຊາດ) LuxDev

Jevgenija Sevcova, EIFL member, has just completed a four-day workshop on the use of the e-Library with teachers and students in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the National University of #Laos National University of Laos (ມະຫາວິທະຍາໄລແຫ່ງຊາດ) LuxDev

✨ The 10th WACREN Annual Conference is heading to "The Land of Teranga" - Senegal! 🇸🇳📅 Save the date: 10-11 April 2025 🎯 Theme: 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲

🇨🇮📹Dr Cecile Coulibaly EIFL Coordinator for Cote d’Ivoire talks about UVCI open science policy & advances in #OpenAccess & open science in her country. Interview (French) celebrating 20 years of EIFL-OA bit.ly/40VPUq1 See more: bit.ly/48XITqM

EIFL, AJOLinfo & WACREN proud to name 17 recipients of grants to strengthen quality & sustainability of no-fee #OpenAccess journals & journal hosting platforms in #Africa. Congratulations to the grantees! bit.ly/3ZiQSvf Wellcome

Good news! UDS (Uganda Development Services) Library, Kamuli #Uganda, now has reliable internet. Thanks to UCC this active participant in EIFL & partners' Digital Skills@Your Local Library project has 2 years free internet for community ICT training. National Library of Uganda Maendeleo Foundation Peer 2 Peer University

SCOSS launches its 6th pledging round with African Journals Online (AJOL), Episciences, Make Data Count, and SciPost. Help support these infrastructures and create a more sustainable future for Open Science. tinyurl.com/SCOSSpledging AJOLinfo Make Data Count Episciences The Science Post

7️⃣ Key Impacts from 9️⃣ Years of Advancing #OpenScience in #Africa 🌍 With our partners and collaborators, we built vibrant communities, shaped policies, enhanced infrastructure access, and more. Read the full story here 👉 libsense.ren.africa/en/libsense-im… Information School AfricaConnect3 👏

We explored the powerful collaboration between leading open-source initiatives like OMP, DOAB, OAPN, TOTE, and the Open Book Collective. These independent entities are working together to build a transparent, coordinated infrastructure supporting the dissemination of OA books.

Presentation by African Minds, an open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books. African Minds publishes predominantly in the social sciences and its authors are typically African academics or those with a close affinity to Africa #DiamondOpenAccess #DOASummit2024

Presentation by the Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe on the funding they received from the Open Book Collective to further their Open Access projects. #DiamondOpenAccess #DOASummit2024 #GlobalSummit #InnovationInPublishing #CapeTown2024 #OpenAccess #DKIS

Discover how #COPPHA is revolutionising African open-access publishing with tailored #DiamondOpenAccess capacity, community-building initiatives, and state-of-the-art infrastructure for public health research. By advancing equitable visibility and integrating social justice

EIFL's Milica Ševkušić Milica Sevkusic comments on the emergence of an interesting new trend in open science projects & actions in #Serbia - bit.ly/4iuhfWy #OpenAccess Iryna Kuchma FAIR-IMPACT EOSC Portal x.com/messages/compo…

WACREN is leveraging the presence of some of LIBSENSE's collaborators at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access Summit in Cape Town 🇿🇦to showcase the significant outcomes of #LIBSENSE's 9-year work in strengthening #openscience in #Africa. And #BAOBAB (our regional OAR) takes a piece of