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“The Initiative of Open Access and Copyright Issues in using Electronic Resources” workshop

On 20-21 October, 2008 two-day workshop on Open Access and Copyright Issues in using electronic resources for the librarians of Osh Regional Library, academic libraries of Osh State University and Kyrgyz-Uzbek University was held.

The main instructor of the workshop was Safia Rafikova, Director of the library of American Universiry in Central Asia and eIFL project Coordinator on questions of the intellectual property in Kyrgyzstan.

Total number of participants was 19, including the heads of libraries, deputies of library heads, programmers and administrators, and heads of services.

During the workshop Rafikova S.K. presented short review of International Initiatives on Open Access (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, Budapest Open Access Initiative), told about eIFL (Electronic Information in Libraries) program activity in Kyrgyzstan and dwelt on a question concerning creation of full-text electronic resources in libraries by the example of The AUCA Electronic Library and Corporate repository of abstracts of dissertations of Kyrgyzstan's scientists.

The second day was devoted to discussion of copyright issues in using electronic resources and its open access. Participants learned how to use electronic databases of scientific publications (EBSCO, Cambridge Journals, AGORA etc.) available thanks to participation of Kyrgyz libraries in eIFL project.

Workshop agenda

TV clip about the workshop (download)

Workshop materials

Institutional repositories creation in Kyrgyzstan

Copyright issues in using electronic resources

Corporate repository of papers of scientists of Kyrgyzstan

eIFL Electronic Resources

Open Access

Institutional Repository creation: Open Electronic Library

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