Open Access Institutional Repository Capacity Strengthening Programme for Africa (OA-IRCSP)

IR Toolkit & Communication Platform www.ir-africa.info

Prepared by Africa J. Bwamkuu – KIT ILS

Presented by Simon Ball – EIFL FOSS Manager

Dspace themed week

online workshop 9th September, 2011

Programme key products/ Activities

The joint initiative by

• African Association of Universities – www.aau.org

• The Royal Tropical Institute – www.kit.nl

Programme aim

to stimulate and strengthen the capacity of establishing intellectual output repositories based on open access principles among African universities

• IR Toolkit

• IR Training modules

• IR Communication platform

• IR Training and advocacy workshops

• IR status survey in Africa

• General facilitation of knowledge exchange & dissemination

Open Access Institutional Repository Capacity Strengthening Programme for Africa ( OA-IRCSP)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

The IR Toolkit

Logical steps addressed within the Toolkit

1. Initiation

Case building phase

2. Planning - Staffing - Budget - Policies - Checklist

3. Implementation - Installation & Configuration

- Choice Matrix

- LiveCDs

4. Management - Copyright management - Promotion

Provide guidelines and resources, particularly in an academic institution environment, on how to;

• Start;

• Implement;

• Operate an IR

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

Implementation Phase – Ready made tools

• Ready to go CDs; preconfigured with repositories software for installation; for those with minimum set of technical skills ( Like playing Music CD )

• Greenstone and Dspace Live CD

• Dspace virtual machine

• Toolkit LiveCD with Dspace will be available .

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

IR Communication Platform – www.ir-africa.info

Key features

• IR Toolkit online version

• Resources

• Forums – Knowledge sharing and Networking

• Who is Who – Online community

• Online facilitation of access, exchange and use of IR knowledge

• As programme information dissemination

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

IR Communication home Page

Click Create new account to register

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

Stakeholders’ engagement

Participation

• Survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XZN2LHK

• Registering to communication platform ( www.ir-africa.info )

• Feedback to toolkit development

• Active participation in forum topics

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