<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Online Registration for the forthcoming 2<sup>nd</sup> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_0">Open Access workshop</span> has commence!
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Register online at<span> </span><a href="http://www.nulib.net/reg.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_1">http://www.nulib.net/reg.php</span></a>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Call for Papers <a href="http://www.nulib.net/oai/09/paper.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_2">http://www.nulib.net/oai/09/paper.html</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"> <span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_3" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">2<sup>nd</sup><span>
– 4<sup>th</sup> <span> </span>November, 2009</span></span> (Arrival <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_4" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">on Sunday
1<sup>st</sup><span> November</span></span> and Departure <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_5" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;">5<sup>th</sup>
November</span>).</span></font>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Venue:<span>
</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Assembly Hall, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_6"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_3">Kaduna State</span></span></span></font>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><font size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Workshop Theme:</span></b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_7" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; cursor: pointer;">Open
Access</span>: </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Maximising Research Quality
and Impact</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">”</span></font>
</p><p class="MsoCommentSubject" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-AU"><strong>The
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_4">specific project objectives</span>
are: <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span></strong></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><span><font size="3">1)</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Increase
understanding and awareness of open access among universities and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_9" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_5">research institutions</span></span>;
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. </font></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><span><font size="3">2)</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Sustainable open
repositories and open access journals in higher education and research
organisations.</font></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"> </font></span></b>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Our
International guest Resources Persons will specifically address the following in
during the conference:</font></span></b>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">How
to maximize </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">the
visibility of research publications, improve the quality, impact and influence
of research work? </span>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">How
to d</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">isseminate
the results of the research in the most efficient way? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"></span>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">How
to showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and Research
institutions to improve webometrics ranking ? </span>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">What
are the new tools to help you better measure and manage the research in your
institution? </span>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">How
to generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage
collaboration? </span>
</p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span>Ø<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; -x-system-font: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB">How
to bring savings to the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254690029_10"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_6">higher education sector</span></span> and
better return on investment? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">The target participants
include: </span></b>
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">Research managers and policy
makers in Universities and Research Institutes</font></span><font size="3">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">Scholars and
Researchers</font></span><font size="3">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">Editors-in-chief of peer
review scientific and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1254727578_7">scholarly
journals</span></font></span><font size="3">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">University Librarians/ Systems
Librarians</font></span><font size="3">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">Directors of Research
Centers</font></span><font size="3">
</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><font size="3"><img alt="*" width="13" height="13"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></font></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';"><font size="3">University and Research ICT
experts</font></span><font size="3">
</font></p></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">The
workshop will include practical tutorials, presentations from cutting-edge
projects and research and discussion groups. </font></span></p><div> </div><div id="RTEContent"><div><div><div><em><strong>Ezra S. Gbaje</strong></em></div> <div><strong><em>Department of Library and Information Science</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>Kaduna State Nigeria</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>website: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sharondelight.net/consultant.html">http://www.sharondelight.net/consultant.html</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sharondelight.com/"></a></em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>phone: 234-8069518804, 234-7028655168</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em> </em></strong></div> <div> </div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>