Introduction to Open Access

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    Unit 5: Open access research impacts.
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    This unit briefly discusses the emergence of the open citation databases for text mining and data mining of open access literature.
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    Unit 4: Advocacy for open access.
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    This Unit briefly discusses looks at the various global advocacy initiatives to help the library and information professionals in strengthening their efforts in sensitizing, awareness raising and promoting the concept of open access to knowledge at the local and national level.
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    Unit 3: Rights and licenses.
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    In this topic looks at various author rights, licenses and rights assessment tools are discussed in details to help the librarians in strengthening their efforts in enhancing researchers’ level of awareness.
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    Unit 2: Open access :
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    In this topic, the genesis of OA publishing is briefly discussed; highlights different benefits OA publishing promises, different approaches and business models of OA; and finally, this gives participants an overview of long-term preservation models available for OA and other scholarly electronic contents.
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    Unit 1: Scholarly communication process.
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    This topic introduces the concept of research lifecycle and scholarly communication discussing its history and evolution. It further looks in to the changes in the scholarly communication process with advent of web 2.0 & 3.0 tools and other ICT applications, and explores the changing role of the stakeholders in the process.
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    Unit 0: Introduction to open access.
    (Busitema University., 2024) Lugya, Fredrick Kiwuwa; Busitema University
    Building a cohort of open scholarship trainers to boost adoption of DataCite open infrastructure services among the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries.