UNESCO Open Access Strategy
Open AccessOpen Access is 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.
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Mostly information produced by Govt. and released online
Books that have expired copyright and made available by commercial publishers
Types of Information: Copyright and Payment
Most web-basedinformation
Information in the public domain
Permission required for reuse
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Universe of Knowledge: Position of Open Access
Types of Open Access: A matrix
The Philosophy of Open Access
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Freedom, Flexibility and Fairness (3F)
Knowledge is Free and should be shared amongst those who need it
Access to past knowledge is essential to create new knowledge
Everyone has a right to knowledge, and authors exercise their rights to share
Open Access is not contrary to Copyright
No individual should be discriminated due to various disadvantages
Foster development of knowledge societies
• Universal access to information and knowledge is the goal of UNESCO
• Barriers to Universal Access: censorship, language, accessibility, and connectivity (Perter Suber)
• Open Access is not Universal Access
Open Access and Universal Access
• Freedom (as in beer and speech)
• Flexibility ( choice of licensing mechanisms)
• Fairness ( to authors, funding bodies and society)
Foundations of Open Access
Open Access Vision
Policy Framework
NOASIR
Open Access TOOLKIT
GOAP
Capacity Building
CoP
Enabling Environment for Open Access in Member States
Information SocietyFOSSMultilingualism
Increased access to information and knowledge through ICTs
Accessibility
Policy dialogue
Policy analysis
Capacity building
OA Journal promotion
OA Repositories promotion
International congresses
Cooperation and
collaboration
OA Week celebrations
Evaluation of repository software
Analysis of OA trends
ACTIVITIES
UNESCO’s Open Access Strategy
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ASIRCoP
Policy development
Surveys, research and stock‐taking
OA Toolkit
OA Training curriculum
OA Self‐Directed learning content
OA Impact analysis tool
OA Convention
GOAP
OA Community
NOASIR
OA Chairs
OA Trend report
OUTPUTS
OUTPUTS
UNESCO’s Open Access Strategy
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Enabling Environment
for Open Access in
Member States
Interventions Results Outcomes Impact
Increased access to
information and knowledge
through ICTs
To provide upstream policy advice and related capacity development at country level
To improve the capacities of the stakeholders to adopt OA
To serve as a clearing-house and inform the global OA debate
Evidence-based policy information available for the development of public policies and programmes relating to OAIntegration of OA in national research systems ensuredCapacities of policy-makers in the development of appropriate policies on OA ensuredNational and institutional policies on OA developed and/or reviewedStandard setting on OA to scientific information and research ensured
Increased cooperation amongst stakeholders to promote the availability of scientific informationIncreased use of OA repositories by Member State institutionsAvailability of scientific information in OA improved
OA curriculum and training in Library and Information Schools standardized
Knowledge-based community of stakeholders in OA developed and fostered
Best practices in OA disseminated in Member States