1 Tatyana Zaytseva March 6, 2014 Baku Higher Oil School Head of Library

 Introducing EIFL-FOSS Program and Activities  EIFL-FOSS Development in Azerbaijan 2

 Goals:  Promote the use of FOSS in libraries in developing & transitional countries and engage with FOSS development and support communities  Support free and open source software which enables libraries to maximize access to knowledge  Raise awareness and understanding of FOSS use in libraries 3

 Freedom to run the program for any purpose  Freedom to study how the program works and adapt it to your needs  Freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor  Freedom to improve the program and release your improvement to the public *** Randy Metcalfe.”Open Source, the ILS, and the opportunity to engagement” engagement-presentation engagement-presentation

 Digital Repositories: Blacklight, DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, Greenstone, Invenio, Islandora, etc.  ILS : ABCD, Koha, Evergreen, NewGenLib, OpenBiblio, ELibrary OPALS  Electronic Resourse Management: Calibre, SMDB, ERMes, E _Matrix, ReSearcher, etc.  Content Management System: Open Monograph Press, Piwiki, Vireo, Open Room, LibrarianDB, MediaWiki, Drupal, etc.  eLearning: (Virtual Leaning Environment): Moodle  Education Roaming: Eduroam  Journal Publishing: OJS (Open Journal Systems)  Authentication and Authorization System: Shibboleth  Subject Page : LIbData, SubjectsPlus  Discovery Interface: Zebra, Wikicat, Virtual library for Moodle, SimpleServer, OpenBib, Shelflife, etc.  Bibliography:TextCite, RefDB,Refbase, Bibwiki, BibCiter, Zotero, etc. 5

 Matrix for FOSS Digital Repositories: matrix  Different library FOSS tools - FOSS4LIB website :  Skills for Librarians  Tips for Engaging with FOSS Communities  EIFL-FOSS News and Events  Library Success Portals  EIFL-FOSS Library Advocacy Resource  Information Portal for libraries  Library Portal :VuFind  Blogging tool: WordPress 6

 License fees for commercial software applications can be a barrier to the development of a modern ICT infrastructure in libraries  Libraries in developing and transition countries require affordable, accessible, up-to-date software that can be adapted to suit local needs and languages. *** Simon Ball EIFL-FOSS Program, July 2010-January

Four Years of Achievements…  Volunteer FOSS country coordinators now represent nearly every participating consortium across eIFL.net  EIFL-FOSS country coordinators are champions for libraries in their countries and are the first line of support on FOSS- related questions for EIFL members  EIFL-FOSS promotes understanding of FOSS through case studies, briefing notes, and open discussion  Through the EIFL Greenstone project a regional support network consisting of eight national centres in Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe has been established - African Digital Libraries Support Network  EIFL-FOSS has also supported the development of a similar network in South Asia 8

 In December 2008, the first presentation about Khazar University Institutional Repository was organized for University Academic Council  In 2009 an introduction to the Open Access movement and KUIR implementation was given at Baku State University for the academic community  In 2009 eLearning system with Moodle platform was implemented at Khazar University  In 2010 during a workshop organized at the Azerbaijan National Library, participating librarians were informed about successful KUIR implementation and development 9

 In January 2011, during an Information Literacy workshop organized at CRRC Library, participating librarians were introduced to the EIFL-FOSS activities  In May 2011, Khazar University ran a Koha ILS workshop for participants from various libraries.  In December 2011 EIFL-FOSS coordinator in Azerbaijan was announced as one of the winners of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) Award  On September 2012 within the Tempus project on “Migration and Higher Education”training on Greenstone was organized at Khazar University  Information about KUIR implementation and successfully running was published in Khazar View and Azerbaijani Studies journals, conference proceedings (Libcom-2010, Zvenigorod, Russia,12 th International Conference on Theses and Dissertations, Pittsburg, USA) 10

 On 24 October 2012, coinciding with Open Access Week 2012 an introduction to DSpace was given to Khazar University newcomers during a presentation held at Khazar University Library  During OA Week 2012 for DuraSpace ” For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" was sent our story about splendid stuff in the KUIR  On September 2013 Digital repository was implemented at Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) in local network  On October 28th 2013 BHOS Repository Team participated in Dspace webinar, organized by EIFL's FOSS  On February 2014 BHOS started negotiations with Institute of Information Technology about Eduroam implementation 11

13 Presentation about Khazar University experience with DSpace is available at EIFL website:

 To help the international Open Access efforts. “The mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if it is not widely and readily available to society.” (Adapted from the Berlin Declaration )  To create a permanent record of the scholarly output of Baku Higher Oil School: -No access to some scholarly works published by our own faculty -Collections of working papers, research and technical reports, theses and dissertations 14

Top Reasons to use Dspace  Largest community of users and developers worldwide: over 1100  Khazar University Institutional Repository Successful story  Any organization can use, modify, and even integrate the code into their commercial application without paying any licensing fees.  The most common use is by research libraries as an institutional repository, however there are many organizations, such as museums, state archives, state and National Libraries, etc.  Well organized web-interface  Metadata in Dublin core format 15

16 Baku Higher Oil School Repository

17 Baku Higher Oil School Repository Communities and Collections [70]Chemical Engineering Department [70] [22]Computer and Information - Communication Technologies Department [22] [19]Electronic Education Department [19] [5]English Language and Humanitarian Courses Center [5] [25]International Relations Department [25] [81]Learning Materials [81] [135]Library [135] [26]Petroleum Engineering Department [26] [16]Personal Pages [16] [12]Postgraduate Training Department [12] [19]Public Relations Department [19] [15]Quality Assurance Department [15] [18]Training Methodical Department [18]

Self-archiving serves two main purposes:  Allows authors to disseminate their research articles for free over the Internet  Helps to ensure the preservation of those articles in a rapidly evolving electronic environment. 18

 Register to:  Choose a collection you want to submit to, e.g. Academic Support  Send us an and ask for registration rights. 19

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 Providing support for the FOSS applications implementation in local academic libraries  Promote FOSS tools for libraries in Azerbaijan  Educate librarians about the EIFL- FOSS best practice case studies  Showcase FOSS software applications  Find champions and partners among Azerbaijani libraries 21

 eIFL.net  eIFL-FOSS  Blog foss/foss-bloghttp:// foss/foss-blog  eIFL-FOSS Country Coordinator in Azerbaijan Tatyana Zayseva, 22

Thank you for your attention! 23