Carrying out the technical activities and duties of the library with the assistance of library assistant and other library staff
Keeping up to date the Library Management System (ERP Library Module
Submitting content in the institutional repository
Overseeing Library organization
Conducting induction of new library staff
Ensuring accurate library stock processing
Marketing library services to ensure effective service delivery
Updating library users and staff on new trends in e-resources
Organising e-resources trainings, workshops and seminars
Training library users
Attending e-resources trainings, workshops and seminars as always delegated by University Librarian.
Open Access (OA)
This is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.
Open Science
Open Science (OS) is the movement to make scientific research, data and their dissemination available to any member of an inquiring society, from professionals to citizens. It impinges on principles of scientific growth and public access including practices such as publishing open research and campaigning for open access, with the ultimate aim of making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge. From development to dissemination of knowledge, several concepts belong under the umbrella term of ‘Open Science’.
Open Scholarship
This is defined by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as encompassing open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.
Open scholarship is the practice of applying principles of openness throughout the research and scholarly environment. It encompasses both open research and open education.
Learn a lot on datacite and open scholarship through understanding how to go about open infrastructure and services such as DOIs, metadata, APIs and many others.
Comprehensive hands-on training on planning and implementation of institutional repository and datacite activities which will help me in planning and implementation of institutional repository and datacite activities at IUIU.
Certificate of attendance and participation t be awarded at the end of the 5-day training.
Networking with other participants from other Institutions of Learning from within and outside Uganda.