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Richard B. Lamptey
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2012 Open Access Week in…
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Kenya Open Access week
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Emelia Agyei replied to Richard B. Lamptey's discussion Are Librarians in Africa interested in pushing for OA issues in their respective libraries? in the group 2012 Open Access Week in Ghana"Mr. Lamptey, could we have an action plan for this, to celebrate the week? It might be in a very small way.
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Richard B. Lamptey replied to Richard B. Lamptey's discussion Are Librarians in Africa interested in pushing for OA issues in their respective libraries? in the group 2012 Open Access Week in Ghana"I seriously believe that most of us Librarians in Ghana have heard alot and have attended some Open Access conferences which in itself has sensitised and given us enough knowledge, which we can begin to share to create…"
Baffour Ohene Agyekum replied to Richard B. Lamptey's discussion Are Librarians in Africa interested in pushing for OA issues in their respective libraries? in the group 2012 Open Access Week in Ghana"I agree with you Richard, the is the need for librarians in Ghana to embark on vigorous sensitization and advocacy which must begin from our various institutions. "
Emelia Agyei replied to Richard B. Lamptey's discussion Are Librarians in Africa interested in pushing for OA issues in their respective libraries? in the group 2012 Open Access Week in Ghana"Richard is the education, the stakeholders as you rightly said, need to be sensitise and gradually we shall get there. I look forward that we come up with several awareness programmes to achieve this."
Richard B. Lamptey added a discussion to the group 2012 Open Access Week in Ghana
Are Librarians in Africa interested in pushing for OA issues in their respective libraries?
If knowledge access is important for development in Africa, how come so much of knowledge is inaccessible? University libraries in Ghana have difficulty accessing research work done in their institutions and in Ghana as a whole. This has been a challenge in supporting teaching, learning, research and knowledge dissemination. My colleague Librarians in Ghana should really push this year in celebrating the OA week so we can sensitise stockholders and policy makers in establishing OA/IRs in…See More
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"Well I sent letters to all the College Provost, inviting their Postgraduate Students/Senior Members to be around.
It was an interesting debate. Those who spoke for the motion won."
Profile Information
- Are you participating in OAWeek 2013? (You can update this later)
- Yes--definitely!
- First name
- Richard B.
- Last name
- Lamptey
- Organization/institution name
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- Type of institution
- Academic Institution
- What's your position?
- Librarian
- What's the level of OA awareness where you are?
- Low
- What are your goals for OA Week 2013?
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in collaboration with BioMed Central will be holding the Open Access Africa 2011 conference at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, from the 25 – 26 October 2011. Our top goal is vigorously to sensitize the majority of Academics, Librarians and Policy Makers about the importance of Open Access to information in the country.
- How did you hear of the OA Week site?
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Open Access Africa 2011 conference at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana
Dear Colleague,
BioMed Central will be holding the Open Access Africa 2011 free two-day conference at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, 25 – 26 October 2011, and we would like to personally invite you to attend the event.
Now in its second year, the conference will discuss the benefits of open access publishing in an African context, from the perspective of both readers seeking access to information, and researchers seeking…
ContinuePosted on September 16, 2011 at 1:02pm
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 5:26am on November 26, 2012,
Faustina kyerewaa Barfi said… Let's explore open access resources
- At 8:16am on September 6, 2010,
Lucy Browse said… - Thanks for your message Richard - your OA week plans are fantastic, and sure to reach many people! Are you going to share information about OA-KNUSTSpace etc via this webspace? I expect others would be very interested to hear more. Please pass on my regards to Helena, it was lovely to have a catch-up back in May.
- At 3:12am on September 3, 2010,
Ongwen Patrick Alfred said… - Thank you for joining the Kenya Open Access group
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