Weekly highlights – 3 September 2015
- Quote
“INASP has been supporting us to grant access to many scholarly databases since 2006. This really enriches teaching, learning and research activities of all higher educational institutions of Sri Lanka. A big thanks to INASP.”
Excerpt from a comment on the blog post Training supports libraries to monitor use of e-resources
- Updates
- DFID’s Ed Barney has written a post on the Practising Development blog reflecting on the recent VakaYiko consortium meeting.
- ‘Insight and intellectually rigorous!’ is how our blog Practising Development is described in Planet Earth Institute’s roundup of Fantastic places to find science, tech and development stories in Africa.
- This month INASP is pleased to welcome two new communications officers and a fundraising coordinator.
- We are recruiting for a Programme Manager, Organizational Capacity Development, Research Access & Higher Education Deadline: 25/9/15.
- Upcoming events
- From 8 to 10 September Deputy Executive Director Julie Brittain will be in Nairobi, Kenya for the launch of AESA and to meet with potential partners.
- On 10 September Executive Director Sue Corbett will speak about the INASP Principles for Responsible Engagement at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) conference in Heathrow, London. Follow #alpsp15 for more from that conference.
- Recent publications
- Reflections from the VakaYiko annual consortium meeting – Practising Development, 1 September, 2015 As Research Uptake Manager in the Evidence into Action team at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Ed Barney manages INASP funding on behalf of DFID. In this guest post, he reflects on the recent VakaYiko consortium meeting in Ghana.
- Five lessons about the use of evidence in public policy in Peru – Practising Development, 28 August, 2015 In an article first published in the On Think Tanks blog, Daniel Boyco of the Peruvian Alliance for the use of Evidence discusses promoting the use of research evidence in policy in Peru.
- Guest Post: Posters—Quick Tips and Ideas – AuthorAID, 30 August, 2015 By Parvathy Hariharan
- Tip of the Week #248 – AuthorAID, 25 August, 2015 When deciding whether to write a grant proposal, look at the number of grants expected to be awarded, writes Bernard Appiah.
- Reboot your retirement through AuthorAID mentoring – AuthorAID, 24 August, 2015 Professor Barbara Gastel has written an opinion piece in The Scientist on how retired or nearly-retired academics can continue to support junior researchers through INASP’s AuthorAID mentoring scheme.
- Guest Post: Electronic Posters—Quick Tips and Ideas – AuthorAID, 23 August, 2015 By Parvathy Hariharan
- Tanzanian workshop supports female researchers – INASP News, 23 August, 2015 INASP’s AuthorAID project is supporting a workshop on gender issues in Tanzania this week. The workshop, which will take place at the University of Dodoma from 24 to 28 August, will include 26 female academics from University of Dodoma and one from St John’s University.
- External coverage
- Monthly summary – Ubiquity Press blog, 28 August, 2015 Discusses Sri Lanka Journals Online and other JOLs being hosted on the Ubiquity platform.
- Five lessons about the use of evidence in public policy in Peru – OnThinkTanks, 26 August, 2015
- Fantastic places to find science, tech and development stories in Africa – Planet Earth Institute
- Support to promote and provide Open Access to Information – Open Access Week, 22 August, 2015
- INASP launches Open Access Week competition – Research Information, 18 August, 2015
- Beyond the niche: how AuthorAID expands academic horizons – IOP blog, 17 August, 2015
- INASP launches Open Access Week competition – Open Data Aha! 17 August, 2015
- INASP Launches Open Access Week Competition 2015 – Open Health News
- Working with e-resources – Library Capacity Building 14 August, 2015
- Guide for Authors – KnowledgeE Publishing Services
- PAM Vendor Update & Networking Breakfast – SLA Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division, 14 August, 2015
- How to display a digital badge from a Moodle site on an Open Badges portfolio – Turning editing on blogspot, 13 August, 2015