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Enhancing and connecting repositories in Africa NREN- library collaboration Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Kathleen Shearer (COAR) What is LIBSENSE? Building capacity and services for Open Science in Africa Africa is a large and

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Enhancing and connecting repositories in Africa NREN- library collaboration

Omo Oaiya (WACREN), Iryna Kuchma (EIFL), Kathleen Shearer (COAR)

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What is LIBSENSE?

Building capacity and services for Open Science in Africa

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Africa is a large and diverse continent

Many different languages / cultures Large distribution in available resources Diverse local and regional priorities

There is no “one size fits all” solution

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Three workshops

Zanzibar, Tanzania - November 2018, in conjunction with UbuntuNet Alliance Accra, Ghana - March 2019, in conjunction with WACREN Tunis, Tunisia - April 2019, in conjunction with ASREN

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Strengthening Open Science in the Africa through Library-NREN collaboration:

Cultural change
Technical support
Capacity building
Value added services

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Outcomes so far:

Listserve
Survey of the region(s)
WACREN pilot to host repositories in West and

Central Africa

Template for NREN-Library collaboration
Metadata guidelines
Data exchange agreement

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Terms of Reference

Cultural change: advocacy, incentives, advance

the principles of social justice

Technical support: REN hosting repositories and

journals, preservation, DOIs

Capacity building: joint training for repository

managers, research data management, etc.

Value added services: Pan-African discovery

system (harvester), Next gen publishing services

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LIBSENSE wiki

https://spaces.wacren.net/display/LIBSENSE [Metadata]/Data Exchange Model Agreement [DRAFT] Metadata Guidelines [DRAFT] National Open Access Policy [DRAFT] Institutional Open Access Policy [Draft]

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Value added services are built on metadata

Therefore, we need to work together to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of metadata to develop value added services

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National & regional repositories/aggregators in Tanzania and East Africa

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https://spaces.wacren.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4587537

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Metadata guidelines: Optimal metadata

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https://spaces.wacren.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4587538

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What comes next?

Shared hosting services for repositories
Advocacy, training, and communities of

practice

Increasing the value of local content
Federated discovery system for the region