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October 26, 2017 from 4pm to 5pm

We contacted the student Debate Club of Nazarbayev University to discuss about the importance of Open Access, for and against Open Access in Kazakhstan. Prizes where given to all participants.…See More

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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Jane

Last name: Gikandi

Organization/institution name: COperative University College of Kenya (CUCK)

Type of institution: Academic Institution

What's your position?: Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: High

What are your goals for OA Week?: The library will hold an exhibition to promote OA and Institutional repositories. We are encouraging creative and innovative OA messages by students and staff.

Any promotional materials are welcome

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: From Colleagues

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CUEA Knowledge Party

The Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA) is in Party mode. We are in the final countdown for the launch of much awaited CUEA Learning Resource Centre (LRC) http://goo.gl/Ob4mr. This is an ultra modern facility and one of the best in the sub-Saharan Region.

As a warm up to the launch, CUEA library is organizing a…

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Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:00am

THANK YOU JKUAT

On behalf of the library, staff and students and on my behalf I wish thank all those who graced or participated in the inaugural open access week activities. Thank you for helping to make it a great success. Your exceptional contribution, energy, passion and enthusiasm helped kick the entire events into high gear. Thanks to you, I believe the level of open access awareness is now high.

The open access concept will increase visibility of our researchers through global citations,… Continue

Posted on October 24, 2010 at 10:19am

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At 2:25am on October 22, 2012, Beatrice Amollo said…: Keep up the good work Jane!! I think there is need for greater spread and awareness about OA in Kenya. The pros far outweigh the cons.

At 10:01pm on November 14, 2010, Isaac Oteyo said…: This is great. The community is growing.

At 8:32am on November 3, 2010, Claudia Holland said…: How did you engage the students, Jane? Would you explain the retreat, please? Who was invited and what did you present? I love the idea of the dancing, particularly since kids love music so much. Did you use open access music? Thanks!

At 6:04am on October 23, 2010, JKUMUN said…: We were all happy to participate in helping the library raise awareness within the Jkuat fraternity in whichever way we could. We've really appreciated the cooperation that's been there between the you and students in making this week a success, and hope this will be the beginning of much more to come from working together. Thanks a lot for the opportunity to offer our service