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SUMMARY:LIBSENSE International Open Access Week 2026 Webinar
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UID:indico-event-295@indico.wacren.net
CONTACT:libsense@ren.africa
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: John Kunze (ARK Alliance)\, Owen Iyoha (Eko-Konnect)
 \, Omo Oaiya (WACREN)\, Chinwe Anunobi (National Library of Nigeria (NLN))
 \n\n\nInternational Open Access Week 2026 asks what knowledge costs. For A
 frican research\, part of the answer is invisibility: work that cannot be 
 found\, cited\, credited or preserved\, and identifier infrastructure gove
 rned elsewhere.\nThis 90-minute webinar shows that PIDsLink\, WACREN's per
 sistent identifier service\, is already running\; that Nigeria is putting 
 a national PID model into practice\; and that institutions\, journals and 
 researchers across West and Central Africa can join now.\nParticipants wil
 l:\n\nsee an ARK minted and resolved live\, and understand how ARKs\, Cros
 sref DOIs\, ORCID iDs and ROR work together\nlearn how Nigeria's national 
 model works and how other countries can adapt it\nhear early-career resear
 chers explain why persistent identifiers matter\nleave with one clear next
  step for their role\, taken through a single registration form\n\n \nTar
 get audience - Decision-makers (university librarians\, research directors
 \, national libraries\, NRENs\, funders)\; practitioners (repository manag
 ers\, journal editors\, research administrators)\; and researchers\, espec
 ially early-career researchers and LIBSENSE Campus Champions.CLICK HERE TO
  REGISTER\n\nhttps://indico.wacren.net/event/295/
LOCATION:Zoom
URL:https://indico.wacren.net/event/295/
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