South Eastern University holds 'Open Access' program

by M.A. Phakurdeen - Addalaichenai Gr. Corr.

An awareness program on 'Open Access for Scholarly communication', organised by the Science Library of the South Eastern University of Sri Lanka was held recently at the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

The aim was to provide the lecturers, instructors and researchers of the Faculty of Applied Sciences a comprehensive knowledge in open access publications such as open access books and journals. In addition motivating academics and researchers to publish their research papers in open access journals and archiving their publications at open access repositories were paid special emphasis.

Advantages of open access policies were explained by the resource personnel at the program, which would increase the readability and accessibility of the publication of our researchers which would again give greater impact and citations of the publications. It was further discussed at length about the Ranking of Web of World Universities (RWWI) based on webometric studies while making Open Access policy as mandate the place of our University rank at the RWWI will be raised. It was realised that developing an institutional Repository (IR) is a joint venture of faculty and library.

Dean, senior lecturers, lecturers, instructors, demonstrators of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and senior assistant librarians participated. M.M. Rifaudeen, Librarian, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka and Mrs. M.M. Mashroofa Hameem, Senior Asst. Librarian, Science Library participated as resource personnel.An exhibition on 'Pamphlets, Dictionaries, and Encyclopaedia' organised by the Science Library was opened by Dr. M.I.S. Safeena, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.