The European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) is a powerful tool of the strategic framework for European cooperation in Education and Training (ET 2020) for...
Have you ever wondered:How many Open Access policies are there worldwide?Does mandating result in more deposits in institutional repositories?When are Open Access Policies deposited?Thanks to...
On 18 August 2015, I walked into a meeting room at the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The room was to be the venue for...
The time has come to announce our 5 micro-sites beta testers!In first place we would like to thank all the AGRIS Centers that participated in the context and warmly embraced our new service! It has...
Le Electronic Publishing Trust (EPT) est heureux d’annoncer qu’il lance son quatrième concours annuel visant à récompenser les personnes des pays en développement et en émergence** qui...
Just before the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2015, ministers and country representatives from 13 African countries met in a pre-meeting together with the IFLA president Sinikka...
In the last few years, the momentum for Open Data has been steadily growing in Africa - with a few countries launching national level platforms. The Open Data for Africa is one of the comprehensive...
The new Global Partnership for Sustainable Development is a high level initiative that will strengthen the Data Revolution for sustainable development and inclusive growth. It is mainly organized...
This year the IFLA section Library Theory and Research (LTR) proposed a topic for the De Gruyter Saur / IFLA Research Paper Award 2015 and set the focus on "Advance research on Digital...
IntroductionInitiatives to share scholarly works in Zimbabwe emerged in the early 2000s through the efforts of the Association of African Universities (AAU). It was noted that African research...