Presentations and poster abstracts from the Open Access Africa 2011 conference that took place took place on 25-26 October at Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology (KNUST) in Ghana are now available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica/program and http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica/posterabstracts