INASP announced the recipients of Open Access Week grants from India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. 10 institutions have been awarded a grant of $500 each to support their Open Access Week (24-30 October 2016) plans in the INASP Open Access Week competition. As in previous years, the Open Access Week competition is jointly sponsored by UNESCO and INASP.
- All India Shree Shivaji Memorial Society's College of Engineering, India
- Chuka University, Kenya
- Kenyatta University, Kenya
- Rongo University College, Kenya
- Elizade University, Nigeria
- Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
- Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre, Tanzania
- Bishop Barham University College, Uganda
- Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
- University of Zimbabwe Library, Zimbabwe
During Open Access Week, Federal University of Technology, Minna will be going door-to-door to distribute material on open access initiatives and mandates to faculty and run jingles on the institutional radio station publicizing open access.
INASP received many high-quality entries and has awarded prizes to those institutions with innovative ideas and plans to share lessons learned, build on and incorporate learning from previous Open Access Week activities. The grants have been awarded to the institutions which demonstrated an understanding of and commitment to Open Access resources.
“The annual INASP/UNESCO Open Access Week grants are a great example of how quite a small amount of money can help to make a big difference to information access in a way that is decided by in-country partners and appropriate to their local contexts”, says Mai Skovgaard, Programme Officer at INASP.
Mai adds: “Previous grants have helped university libraries to demonstrate to students the wealth of information available to them online and helped rural health workers use high-quality open-access information in diagnosing and treating illness”.
The theme of this year’s Open Access Week is “Open in Action”. The theme focuses on taking concrete steps to open up research and scholarship and encouraging others to do the same.
Follow #OAWeek and @INASPinfo to see activities of these institutions during Open Access Week. Click here to read how a previous INASP/UNESCO grant recipient used their grant to promote access to health research for rural health workers in Tanzania.
Congratulations to all the grant winners!
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