Deputy Director at the Department of Library Services (DLS), University of Pretoria, Lazarus Gallant Matizirofa has been appointed as a board member of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organisation that supports open access publishing and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
“This comes as a recognition of his commitment to open scholarship and open research visibility in South Africa and Africa. Lazarus is a member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Next Generation Repositories Working Group. He was also a Technical Advisory Board member for the African Open Science Platform (AOSP) (2017-2019), and a member of the Steering Committee for the SA-EU Open Science Dialogue (2018-2019). Mr Matizirofa was one of the pioneers of Open scholarship librarians who steered the formation of the Institutional Repository Managers’ Forum in South Africa in 2011, which led to the IRTALK.”
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