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

First name: Pavlinka

Last name: Kovatcheva

Organization/institution name: University of Johannesburg

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?: Raise an awareness to UJ Sciences community of the benefits in publishing and using OA journals.

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: blue

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Open Access Seminar @ Vaal University of Technology, 25/10/12

I have attended today, 25 October 2012 an Open Access Seminar at Vaal University of Technology.

Thanks to the VUT Library for organising the event and especially to Mr. Freeman Zulu, VUT Library Director: Client Services for inviting me to speak.

We had a lovely morning engaging in conversation about OA, the important role of the Institutional Repositories in making available free research content; OA South African & African collections, etc.

The…

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Posted on October 25, 2012 at 7:00am

UJ Sciences Librarian OA mini-seminar 23 Oct 2012

In acknowledgement of the Open Access Week I have initiated a mini-seminar for the UJ Faculty of Science academics and postgraduate students on 23 October 2012. For venue, I selected one of the available lecture halls, which happen to be convenient, as it was close to the Sciences departments. Thirteen (13) researchers, Masters and PhD students were in attendance from Biochemistry, Chemistry and Botany Departments.

At the seminar we had also six (6) representatives from the library:…

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Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:00am