Jill Claassen's Page

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

First name: Jill

Last name: Claassen

Organization/institution name: University of Cape Town

Type of institution: Academic Institution

What's your position?: Librarian

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: Low

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: From SPARC

Jill Claassen's Blog

SPARC Africa: capacitating Africa towards access to Open Scholarship

In response to the portentous need of access to scholarly content by the African research community, an additional SPARC Chapter, SPARC Africa, has been established and was launched at the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Satellite meeting on the 14^th August 2015. The Chapter’s primary focus will be to capacitate Africans in academic and research sectors to champion…

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Posted on October 19, 2015 at 3:00am