Past INASP Events and Workshops

This page contains details of some past INASP workshops and events.

African University Press Publishing Workshop, 2005

In June 2005 INASP undertook a 6-day workshop at the Addis Ababa University Press, with the objective of developing skills and knowledge within the Press staff, and enabling the management to develop a strategic plan for the Press. The Press was established in 1967 and publishes books from university staff, as well as external authors. This workshop was run with the aim of building a methodology for supporting other university presses throughout Africa to develop their business models and develop more sustainable future operations.

The workshop was facilitated by Helen van Houten, Sioux Cumming, and Eve Gray and attended by participants from the University Press, plus some external observers.

The outcome from the workshop was that a draft strategy plan for the Press was produced, which was to be completed and actioned within the following 12 months.

For more information, contact Sioux Cumming by clicking here

AJOPP Workshops, 2001 and 2006

To initiate the African Journals Online Publishing Programme (AJOPP), INASP held a workshop in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2001. This workshop invited journals to attend and during the workshop they investigated the potential of online pubilshing and the different hosting opportunities. From this workshop, each journal produced an action plan to help them develop an online presence.

In 2006, editors from six African journals attended a follow-up workshop in Kampala, Uganda to evaluate the African Journals Online Publishing Programme and to look at ways to develop it further. Participants came from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Uganda to discuss online publishing and to share experiences. Plans were produced for the development of their future online presence.

The journals represented were:

• Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (Ethiopia)
• SINET (Ethiopia)
• African Journal of Reproductive Health (Nigeria)
• Zimbabwe Veterinary Journal (Zimbabwe)
• African Journal of Crop Science (Uganda)
• Journal of Social Development in Africa (Zimbabwe)
• African Health Sciences (Uganda)

INASP Symposium 2004

This symposium was held by INASP as part of our role to assist in developing information systems and services around the world.

With speakers from developing and developed countries, representing government, public and private interests, this interactive event explored new priorities, new thinking and new methods of information creation and dissemination. It allowed participants to identify actions to support the global information society – and so strengthen worldwide research.

For full details of the Symposium, including the programme and delegate list, please click here.

Reviewing Workshop for Journal Editors, Uganda, 2005

This workshop was held jointly with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases at WHO (TDR) and the Forum for African Medical Editors (FAME) in Entebbe, Uganda, April, 2005. The objective of the workshop was to develop improved reviewing processes and guidelines for the FAME membership and other medical journals and also included a session on how to provide training to their reviewers. The editorial guidelines which were developed during the workshop can be viewed on the FAME website, here.

The 16 participants represented 13 journals from 9 countries

1. African Health Sciences (Uganda)
2. African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (Nigeria)
3. African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (Nigeria)
4. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development (Ethiopia)
5. Ghana Medical Journal (Ghana)
6. Juba Medical Journal (Sudan)
7. Malawi Medical Journal (Malawi)
8. Orient Journal of Medicine (Nigeria)
9. South African Medical Journal (South Africa)
10. Sudanese Journal of  Dermatology (Sudan)
11. Tanzania Health Research Bulletin (Tanzania)
12. Tanzania Medical Journal (Tanzania)
13. West African Journal of Medicine (Nigeria)
14. Sudanese Journal of Dermatology (Sudan)
15. EMAME Representative (Pakistan)

For more information please contact Sioux Cumming

Strategic Online Publishing for Sri Lanka, 2005

INASP held a 5-day workshop for journal editors and publishers in Kandy, Sri Lanka, 30 May - 4 June 2005 in association with the University of Colombo. This workshop included modules on strategic publishing and improving editorial processes and also looked at how to build and develop a Sri Lanka journal publishing platform to support online visibility for its journals. The facilitators were Pippa Smart from INASP and Dr Ana Marusic from the Croatia Medical Journal

There were 22 participants representing the Library staff of the University of Colombo and the following journals:

1. Bankers Journal
2. Bar Association Law Journal
3. Business Today
4. Ceylon Journal of Medical Science
5. Ceylon Medical Journal
6. Economic Review
7. Journal of Agricultural Sciences
8. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka
9. Journal of the University Librarians Association of Sri Lanka
10. Library News
11. LMD
12. OUSL Journal
13. Sri Lanka Economic Journal
14. Sri Lanka Journal Child Health
15. Sri Lanka Journal of International Law
16. Sri Lanka Journal of Librarianship & Information Management
17. Sri Lanka Journal of Physics
18. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities
19. Sri Lanka Library Review
20. Sri Lanka ournal of Social  Sciences
21. Staff Studies
22. TARE
23. Vidyodaya (Journal of Humanities and Social Science)