chimwemwe mandalasi

lilongwe

Malawi

Yes--definitely!

Profile Information:

First name: Chimwemwe
Last name: Mandalasi
Organization/institution name: UNIMA/KCN
Type of institution: Academic Institution
What's your position?: Librarian
What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: None
What are your goals for OA Week?: To learn more about open access subscription journals so that I can help my colleagues as well as students how to get open access information.
How did you hear of the OA Week site?: blue

Iryna Kuchma

Dear Ms Chimwemwe Mandalasi,

A good news is that open access journals do not charge readers or their institutions for access. Open access journals are free available on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. You, your colleagues and students can browse the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ or search in the Base Search 25,278,166 open access documents of 1722 content providers: http://www.base-search.net/index.php?font_size=84

Aug 26, 2010
Lucy Browse

That sounds wonderful Chimwemwe - it is great you are getting local media involved and promoting your OA week activities - did you already have a contact at the radio station? With very best wishes.

Sep 6, 2010