Busitema University Library

The DataCite and Open Scholarship workshop was organised by Busitema University Library with support from DataCite’s Global Access Fund (GAF). The Global Access Fund (GAF) was established to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable. In this project: “Building a cohort of open scholarship trainers to boost adoption of DataCite open infrastructure services among the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries” Busitema University Library developed and delivered a five-day training trainers’ workshop to a cohort of librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators selected from 76 Consortium of Uganda University Libraries members. The project aimed to ignite a countrywide conversation on the benefits of open scholarship and open science and to increase awareness for integrating DataCite infrastructure services to make research discoverable. By the end of the project, participants were be expected to be able to: 1. Communicate to their institutional administrators why libraries and their institutions cannot afford to ignore implementing institutional repositories to make their research outputs open; 2. Explain how to go about using open infrastructure and services like Dspace and DataCite tools to make their research outputs open and discoverable; 3. Understand how to teach and train librarians, ICT professionals, and research administrators to implement DataCite research discovery and exploration tools and services like DOIs, metadata, APIs in their institutional repositories; 4. Become confident and have the knowledge to deal with difficult questions about making research outputs open and discoverable; 5. Be able to plan institutional repository and DataCite training activities and be aware of the best practices in training design for online, face-to-face and hybrid events; 6. Understand how to work with diverse audiences especially institutional administrators to attract funding towards DataCite activities; 7. Know how to evaluate the impact of the training and implementing institutional repositories and DataCite open infrastructure and services. The workshop took place from Monday, 27th May to Friday, 31st May 2024 at Busitema University, Busitema Campus, Engineering Library, Level 3, E-Learning Center.