Weekly highlights – 10 August 2015

1. Quotes

“We enjoyed the training-the-trainers workshop at Thai Nguyen University hosted by Ravi Murugesan from INASP. We like the ways the workshop was conducted. In a friendly workshop atmosphere, all participants cooperated and are eager to adapt what they have learned to their future workshop activities.”

Khoa Mai Anh, co-facilitator, Training-the-trainer workshop, Vietnam

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“Our VakaYiko annual meeting in Accra last week was a great opportunity to strengthen our relationship as a Consortium and discuss our work going into the third and final year of the programme. We shared our learning and reflections from our work on evidence informed policymaking in three countries, as well as visited our partners at the Civil Service Training Centre.”

Emily Hayter, Programme Manager, Evidence Informed Policy Making

2. Updates

• Last week Ravi and Annelise were in Vietnam doing an AuthorAID train-the-trainers workshop in Thai Nguyen. See the hashtag #inaspVN for more information.
• From 10^th to 11^th August managers of the Journals Online platforms and INASP staff will meet in Vancouver, Canada. Follow the hashtag #inaspJOLs for updates.
• In preparation for the Journals Online Managers’ Meeting, we have created new country factsheets for the countries represented at the meeting. In addition, we have created factsheets for the five Journals Online platform that are still with INASP. See the publications section of our website for all the latest factsheets.

3. Upcoming events

• Anne Powell will make a country visit to Lesotho between 10^th and 15^th August.
• Anne Powell and Peter Burnett will attend the IFLA conference in South Africa from 15^th to 21^st August. Peter will be presenting a paper entitled “Linking up the layers: Campus Networks and Access to e-resources in Africa”.

4. Recent publications

• Academics from four continents converge on Vancouver for inaugural JOL Managers’ Meeting – INASP news, 10 August, 2015 Canadian city welcomes 26 meeting participants to discuss past, present and future of the Journals Online project.
• Building capacity of Africa’s library consortia – Practising Development, 6 August, 2015 Jon Harle reports on the recent library consortia meeting in Addis Ababa about building strong foundations for research to deliver African Union’s ‘Agenda 2063’.
• Sri Lanka’s scholarship reaches wider audience with communications support – Practising Development, 6 August, 2015 INASP consultant Emily Marlow recently spent a week in Sri Lanka working with the country’s National Science Foundation to improve its communications strategy for Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL), the INASP-established platform for Sri Lankan research. She reflects on her trip’s goals and successes.
• Tip of the Week #245 – AuthorAID, 4 August, 2015 Tables can aid in presenting findings. But use them only if text will not be enough, writes Bernard Appiah
• Guest Post: An AuthorAID Scientific Manuscript Writing Workshop in Kenya – AuthorAID, 3 August, 2015 By Prof. Albert Getabu
• Review of Information Support Systems at the Parliament of Ghana – INASP Reports, 27 July, 2015

5. External coverage

• Global challenges, local knowledge – Research Information, August/September 2015
• Female researchers – Research Information, August/September 2015
• The two Research Information pieces above are part of a special supplement on research in Africa.
• Teaching and learning with African scientists – Elsevier Connect, 31 July, 2015 Article about the experiences of one of Elsevier’s volunteers with the TZAP: Strengthening Tanzanian Publishing project.
• CPPA Hosts Information Literacy Stakeholder Session – Center for Public Policy Alternatives, 28 July, 2015