26-28, April 2019
El Mouradi Gammarth in Tunis, Tunisia
About Workshop
This workshop was organized in conjunction with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and EIFL as part of the LIBSENSE Initiative, that convenes library and NREN stakeholders in the West and Central African region to explore how repositories can operate embedded in NREN e-infrastructure and provide a foundation for an innovative, open, distributed and networked resource for scholarly communication and open science in Africa.
Prior to the workshop, a survey was sent out to librarians in the Higher Education libraries in the Arab Region under ASREN regional network. The workshop discussed and analyzed the results of the survey with regards to higher education sector librarians view of the enabling and constraining factors of their practice as information resource managers, especially regarding the development, implementation and maintenance of open access repositories.
This event followed the first LIBSENSE-I workshop that took place in November 2018 in Zanzibar in the region of UbuntuNet Alliance and the second LIBSENSE-II which took place in Accra 11-12 March 2019 in the region of WACREN. As ASREN is the regional network for the Arab region, the workshop included all Arab countries.
Agenda:
DAY1: Friday 26 April 2019: Dedicated for ASREN Region Libraries and NRENs
08:30 - 10:00 | NRENS in the Arab Region
CCK - Habib Youssef
ASREN - Yousef Torman
EUN - Ibrahim Moawad
MARWAN - Redouane Merrouch
LIBSENSE - Yousef Torman |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 12:00 | Libraries, Library Consortia and Data Repositories in the Arab Region
Tunisia
Qatar
Morocco
Jordan
Egypt
Palestine
Iraq
Syria |
12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 - 16:00 | Discussion and Preparation for the Rest of the Workshop |
DAY2: Saturday 27 April 2019
09:00 - 11:00 | Overview of OA Initiatives in the Region - What works, what doesn't and why?
Morocco - Moroccan Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (IMIST) - Ayssi Rachid and Essadaoui Mohamed [ppt]
Qatar - Qatar National Library - Alwaleed Alkhaja [ppt]
Senegal - African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) - Antonin Benoit Diouf [ppt]
Egypt - Egyptian Universities Libraries’ Consortium - Mona Farouk
Jordan - Center of Excellence for Library Services - Mohammad Al Sarayreh [ppt]
Iraq - Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research - Dr. Yousif Al-Dunainawi [ppt]
LIBSENSE Research Agenda - Dr Pamela Abbott, University of Sheffield [ppt] |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:30 | LIBSENSE Survey - Preliminary Results and Focus Group Discussion |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:00 | Trends in Open Science and Next Generation Repositories [ppt]
Other Regional Models of Collaborations: LA Referencia (Latin America), WACREN-NII project, Metadata or Data Curation Network |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30 - 17:00 | Topical Break Out Groups - sharing information and developing strategies for open science services: advocacy and engaging with researchers, OA repositories, OA journals, managing research data |
DAY3: Sunday 28 April 2019
09:00 - 10:30 | Setting the Scene and Discussion: LIBSENSE for Arab Region - Objectives of LIBSENSE, Outcomes from Previous Meetings, Discussion [ppt] |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:30 | Identifying Priorities for NREN-Library Collaborations in Arab Region |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00 | Working Together - Technical, e.g. Repository Hosting, Support Frameworks; Non-technical - Policy and a Community of Practice,
Engagement, Advocacy, Communications, etc.
Wrap Up and Next Steps |
15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
15:15 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:15 | Focus Group 1
Focus Group 2 |
About LIBSENSE
Towards improving the capability for African Higher Education Librarians to collaborate with NRENs in achieving Better information management capacity, the African Regional Research and Eduaction Networks (Ubuntunet Alliance, WACREN and ASREN) planned the LIBSENSE (Library Support for embedding NREN services and e-Infrastructure) project. The project funded by the European Commission under the AfricaConnect2 Project in collaboration between in support of EIFL and COAR.
Objective
- Define a collaborative agenda for libraries and NRENs
- Achieve improved information management capacity
- Federation of open access repositories across the African regions
- Build a community of practice for open access and open science
Target Audience/ Who should participate
- Libraries and Library consortia
- Content and research data providers
- National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)
