Improving Open Access to Information and Knowledge

Improving Open Access to Information and Knowledge

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  Sanjaya Mishra, PhD Director 1 Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
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  The Context: Scholarly Communication 2
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  What is theProblem?  Exponential growth of knowledge?  Business of knowledge and value creation?  Internet enabled infrastructure?  Access to technology?  Access to information? 3
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  History of OpenAccess  Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)  Berlin Declaration (2003)  Bethesda Statement (2003)  Many declarations… 4
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  Open Access Open Accessis the provision of free access to peer-reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It envisages that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author. 5
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  Open Access: FourDimensions Free Online Open Permanent 6
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  Open Access: KnowledgeMap  Technology drivers  National R&D systems  Institutional frameworks  Communities of researchers  Societal expectations 7
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  Types of OpenAccess: A matrix
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  Types of Information:Copyright and Payment Free Many web- based Mostly information information produced by Govt. and released online Books that have Payment-based Printed Books available from expired copyright commercial and made publishers available by commercial publishers Copyright Public Domain 9
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  Types of Information:Permission and Payment Free Information in the Payment-based Copyrighted information public domain Permission Permission not required for reuse required for reuse 10
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  Universe of Knowledge:Position of Open Access 11
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  Foundations of OpenAccess • Freedom (as in free of cost and free speech) • Flexibility ( choice of licensing mechanisms) • Fairness ( to authors, funding bodies and society)
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  The Philosophy ofOpen Access 13
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  Open Access andUniversal Access • Universal access to information and knowledge is the goal • Barriers to Universal Access: censorship, language, accessibility, and connectivity (Perter Suber) • Open Access is a sub-set of Universal Access
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  Open Access Initiatives 15
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  Open Access Statistics Gold open Access (8115 OA journals in DOAJ)  Green Open Access (2211 repositories)  Platinum Open Access (Social networking approach) – Mendeley, Research Gate, Academia.edu etc.  67% of Journals permit some form of self-archiving 16
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  Open Access Systems Open Access Journal Software, eg. OJS of PKP  Open Access repository software (many, but most predominant are Dspace, Eprints, Fedora)  Easy to manage and run these systems  Indian Journal of Open Learning is hosted using OJS 17
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  What each oneof Us can do?  Promote OA journals and repositories  Ask our institutions to create OA repositories  Publish in OA journals  Submit our papers to OA repositories, especially institutional repositories (if your institution does not have a repository, you can still submit at  Encourage institutions to adopt OA policies  Encourage setting up of OA funds  Promote quality of OA journals 18
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  Questions/Comments  Thank youvery much for your attention. 19