IR and OA Initiatives in Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Ubogu, Felix | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-17T08:00:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-12-17T08:00:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-12-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Early IR and OA initiatives in Africa began in 1998, before the term OA was current. • Rhodes University (RU) in South Africa mounted its first digital thesis on the World Wide Web in 1998; it became the first institution in Africa to do so. Other grey literature also gathered. • RU, like many institutions in South Africa, has developed an OA repository, using EPrintsoftware, containing other digital knowledge products. • The Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) programme of the Association of African Universities (AAU), which was designed to improve management and access to African scholarly work, was a precursor to the development of OA repositories by institutions which participated in the programme. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8949 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | ICADLA, conference, digital library, archive, OA, IR, Africa | en_US |
| dc.title | IR and OA Initiatives in Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |