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

Aside from different efforts to tackle the author identity problem on a global scale, such as ORCID, Google launched its own Citations product today as an addition to Google Scholar. What is it? Basically, Google Scholar Citations offers public researcher profiles, together with citations, h-index and i10 index calculations. By ...

Reference Number: 106/11 Division: University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) Salary: £31,233 - £37,923 Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract Full/Part Time: Full Time Closing Date: 30 November 2011 The Role We are looking for a suitably experienced individual to join our Digital Archives & Repositories Team. You will be responsible for assisting our Senior Repositories Specialist ...

EIFL and UNESCO partner to bring together library directors and IT staff to learn about free software solutions for libraries Library directors and technical staff from 14 countries across Africa met in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to attend an intensive seminar focused on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is organizing a Workshop to advance in the preparation of the Study on “Using Copyright to Promote Access to Information and Creative Content” (the Study). The Study was formally requested by WIPO Members States within the Thematic Project on Intellectual Property, Inforamtion and Communication ...