The Open Access Week is coming soon on 24th October, 2017 with the objective of the Open Access Week is to increase the awareness of Open Access and its components which include Open Science, Open Education and Open Data, which will in turn, improve on the visibility of scholarship in the University by way of increased scholarly citations, among others.
The event will include Radio Talk Show and a Workshop at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
To register for the event, click HERE. You can also follow this LINK.
OPEN CON SATELLITE EVENT, UNN (28th - 29th November, 2017)
Register Here: OpenCon Nsukka
About the Event
The Open Conference
Satellite event is a university-based conference program which will be held
over the course of 2 days targeting University academic staff and postgraduate students.
The program would comprise 2 lectures, 4 workshop lectures and an open access
policy formulation, all focusing on improving knowledge of the open access in
University of Nigeria. The lectures would be delivered by international and
national experts in open access.
The conference will be held
at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka campus, Enugu State. University scholars
and postgraduate students are free to participate in the lectures on the first
day. The main aim of this conference will be to promote implementation
strategies for sustenance of Open Access in University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Conference Goals and Objectives
The
specific goal of this project is to promote implementation strategies for
sustenance of Open Access in University of Nigeria.
However, the Open Con Event is aimed at achieving the following
explicit objectives:
1.
To develop and implement an awareness program focused on the open
access philosophy in UNN.
2.
To introduce UNN scholars and other participants, to the benefits
of Open Access in scholarly communication
3.
To enlighten participants on self-archiving, Institutional
Repository, and Web ranking
4.
To educate researchers on Copyright Policies and Self-archiving
platforms such as Bepress, Educational Blogs, etc.
5.
To unveil the secrets of
increasing the Google Scholar citation counts
6.
To train participants on Self-Archiving platforms and Publisher’s
Website for Copyright Policies.
7.
To train UNN scholars and Postgraduates on Open Source software
for scholarly publication
8.
To introduce participants to Creative Commons – the global
community that breaks down the walls that keep people from sharing their
knowledge.
Watch out for the Event Programme!
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