[BOAI] 2nd Nigeria Open Access workshop

[Ezra Shiloba Gbaje]

Online Registration for the forthcoming 2nd Open Access workshop has commence! 
Register online at  http://www.nulib.net/reg.php   
Call for Papers http://www.nulib.net/oai/09/paper.html 
 
Date:2nd  
– 4th   November, 2009 (Arrival on Sunday 
1st  November and Departure 5th November). 
Venue:  Assembly Hall, Ahmadu Bello 
University, Zaria, Kaduna State 
Workshop Theme:Open 
Access: Maximising Research Quality 
and Impact” 
The specific project objectives are:  
1)    Increase 
understanding and awareness of open access among universities and research institutions; 
adoption of open access policies by these organizations to encourage innovative 
approaches on how ICT infrastructure and services could be used to disseminate 
the research results and to maximise its quality and impact.  
2)    Sustainable open 
repositories and open access journals in higher education and research 
organisations. 
  
Our 
International guest Resources Persons will specifically address the following in 
during the conference: 
Ø  How 
to maximize the 
visibility of research publications, improve the quality, impact and influence 
of research work?  
Ø  How 
to disseminate 
the results of the research in the most efficient way?  
Ø  How 
to showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and Research 
institutions to improve webometrics ranking ?  
Ø  What 
are the new tools to help you better measure and manage the research in your 
institution?  
Ø  How 
to generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage 
collaboration?  
Ø  How 
to bring savings to the higher education sector and 
better return on investment? The target participants 
include:  
      Research managers and policy 
makers in Universities and Research Institutes
      Scholars and 
Researchers
      Editors-in-chief of peer 
review scientific and scholarly 
journals
      University Librarians/ Systems 
Librarians
      Directors of Research 
Centers
      University and Research ICT 
experts  
The 
workshop will include practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge 
projects and research and discussion groups. 
 
Ezra S. Gbaje
Department of Library and Information Science
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Kaduna State Nigeria
website: http://www.sharondelight.net/consultant.html  
phone: 234-8069518804, 234-7028655168
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