You are cordially invited to attend a talk by Marc Goovaerts, a lecturer at Hasselt University Library in Information Technology. Open Access Repositories are world wide initiatives to host academic information and making it more accessible to a wider audience via a controlled medium. Marc will explore the possibility of having Oceandocs as a Repository in South Africa and its immense benefit to developing nations in Africa.
Topic: Oceandocs and South Africa
Repository (network) in oceanography and marine science
Speaker: Marc Goovaerts
ODINAFRICA representative
Hasselt University Library
Belgium
Date: 9 February 2009
Time: 10h00 - 12h00
Venue: MCM HR Training Room on the 6th floor, Foretrust Building, Cape Town , Foreshore
All welcome.
Enquiries: Alieya Haider, 021 402 3250/48
Email:
Ahaider@deat.gov.zaMore about OceanDocs:
OceanDocs provides Research & Publications in Marine Science in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more. OceanDocs is supported by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) specifically to collect, preserve and facilitate access to all research output from members of their Ocean Data and Information Networks (ODINS). It is one of a number of complementary thematic digital marine and aquatic repositories including the Aquatic Commons, which is supported by the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). The records of both repositories are harvested by Avano which aggregates records from marine and aquatic repositories around the World.
