The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has announced that it is making available to the public free of charge its digital publications and data. This comes after UNESCO has adopted an Open Access Policy, becoming the first agency within the United Nations to do so. The new ...

Recent figures from major Open Access data providers in both green and gold, point to an increased growth as of 31st March 2013. The following sources map the global picture of the present status of Open Access and these include Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association statistics, Directory of Open Access Journals (...

The SudanHENL case study describes the open access advocacy campaign involving three higher educational institutions in Sudan that decided to collectively partner in raising open access awareness in their respective institutions. The three institutions are the University of Khartoum, Sudan University of Science and Technology (SUST) and El Neelain University.   ...

The International Symposium: Open Science in the South, Dakar 23-25 octobre 2019, organized by the French Research Institute for Development (IRD), Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and CIRAD accept registration until the 30th of September. Open science is a real lever for facilitating collaborations, conducting quality research, widely disseminating ...

The Open Access & Open Data Support Pack has been created by CGIAR to start and maintain an open support knowledge pack with documents and other resources (policies and plans, information material, brochures, templates, presentations, webinars, workflows, metadata, reports etc.) in order to assist fiftteen CGIAR research centers and their partners ...