The World Bank has embraced open access to further its mission of fighting poverty. It has implemented a four pillar open agenda of access to information, open data, an open access policy, and creative commons licensing. This has led to increased dissemination of the Bank's research and knowledge products, with over 250,000 downloads in the first year alone, mostly from developing countries. Open access aligns with the Bank's mission and makes it more relevant, transparent, accountable, and results-driven in its development work.
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR ConsortiumCIARD Movement
The presentation provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium's progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium.
The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
"Open Access: recalibrating the relationships" Neil Jacobs, DARTS4ARLGSW
Neil will focus on the lessons from the Jisc-APC pilot, and how the workflows around all forms of OA are changing the roles and responsibilities of information professionals within and beyond the HEI. There are new drivers (eg the HEFCE REF OA policy), new points of contact / transaction (eg Gold OA payments of various kinds), and new opportunities (eg to populate repositories). The talk will explore the workflows that are emerging as effective in addressing these changes, and their implications for all concerned.
Encouraging Openness and how stakeholder policies can support or block it!"CIARD Movement
Funders, authors and readers may want open access to research, but can they achieve it? A researcher who has been encouraged to make their work open has to deal with regulations, guidance, and mandates from their institution, their funders, their publisher and their national government. These policies are often complex and can be ambiguous, or in conflict with each other.
A supportive policy environment and guidance through the relationship of one policy to another has proved to be essential for real progress in opening access to research. How should policies support the researcher and the research process? How can policies based on commercial profit fit into an open environment? What role do funders have in protecting their investment and the public interest?
Presented by Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard is the Director of the Centre for Research Communications (CRC) at the University of Nottingham, incorporating the work of SHERPA. The CRC has a portfolio of Open Access projects and services and is a recognised centre of expertise for OA development, policy, repositories and infrastructure.
Bill created the award-winning OA services RoMEO, JULIET and OpenDOAR, which are used around the world to unpick details of stakeholder policies, development policy and which underpin repository use. The CRC have also recently launched FACT, to support researchers in complying with specific RCUK and Wellcome Trust OA polices. Bill has also worked closely with OA publishers and advised on the transitions involved for commercial publishers from traditional to OA business models.
Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR ConsortiumCIARD Movement
The presentation provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium's progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium.
The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities.
Presentation at the 4ª Conferencia internacional sobre calidad de revistas de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CRECS 2014) Madrid, 8-9 de mayo de 2014
Acceptance speech for Directory of Open Access Journals winning the Ugena prize, awarded by the Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
Open access publishing and open access data sharing for malaria research and ...BioMedCentral
Prof. Bob Snow, Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, KEMRI-University of Oxford-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme speaking at Open Access Africa 2010
What is Open Access? An Introduction to OAAbby Clobridge
An introduction to Open Access: What is Open Access? Why Open Access? Open Access Journals (Gold OA), Open Access Repositories (Green OA), Open Access Policies, Discoverability of OA content through Metadata, Interoperability, and the Open Knowledge Environment
ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES 13-22 Nov 2018
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
Presentation on how DOAJ is striving to increase the transparency and credibility of open access publishing throughout research communities.
Presentation at the 4ª Conferencia internacional sobre calidad de revistas de ciencias sociales y humanidades (CRECS 2014) Madrid, 8-9 de mayo de 2014
Acceptance speech for Directory of Open Access Journals winning the Ugena prize, awarded by the Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social.
This is part of the series of webinars of Aprender3C and DOAJ: “Transparencia y buenas prácticas en revistas de Acceso Abierto” / "Transparency and best practice in Open Access Journals"
Presented by our DOAJ Ambassador in China Cenyu Shen
Open access publishing and open access data sharing for malaria research and ...BioMedCentral
Prof. Bob Snow, Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, KEMRI-University of Oxford-Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme speaking at Open Access Africa 2010
What is Open Access? An Introduction to OAAbby Clobridge
An introduction to Open Access: What is Open Access? Why Open Access? Open Access Journals (Gold OA), Open Access Repositories (Green OA), Open Access Policies, Discoverability of OA content through Metadata, Interoperability, and the Open Knowledge Environment
ICTs for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Agricultural Research, Education and Extension of NARES 13-22 Nov 2018
ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore
By Leena Shah,
Managing Editor & Ambassdor, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Desde a implementação generalizada de periódicos on-line e a introdução do acesso aberto há mais de uma década, o ritmo da inovação na publicação de periódicos acadêmicos tem sido lento. Mais recentemente, no entanto, uma série de inovações apareceu na publicação de periódicos, que têm o potencial de causar mudanças de longo alcance no modo como comunicamos informação científica. Entre essas tendências está o surgimento dos Megajournals e, em particular do PLoS ONE, que nos últimos anos veio a dominar periódicos em acesso aberto. Estes periódico, embora revisados por pares nos aspectos de solidez e metodológica científica, aceitam uma ampla variedade de artigos, sobre os quais perguntas como “Qual a importância do trabalho” ou “é relevante para o público” não são critérios para a rejeição, como em muitos outros periódicos. Muitas vezes ligado a Megajournals estão casos de periódicos em cascata, onde o publisher tem um periódico com uma marca forte e muitas submissões.
Since the widespread implementation of online journals and the introduction of open access more than a decade ago, the pace of innovation in academic journal publishing has been slow. More recently however a number of innovations have appeared in journal publishing, which have the potential to cause far reaching changes in how we communicate scientific information. Among these trends is the raise of Megajournals and in particular PLoS ONE which have within the last few years come to dominate open access journals. These journals although peer reviewed for scientific and methodological soundness accept a wider variety of articles as questions such as “How important is the work” or “is it relevant to the audience” are not criteria for rejection as in many other journals. Often linked to Megajournals are cases of cascading journals where a publisher has a journal with a strong brand and many submissions.
Desde la implementación generalizada de revistas en línea y la introducción del acceso abierto hace más de una década, el ritmo de la innovación en la edición de revistas académicas ha sido lento. Más recientemente, sin embargo, una serie de innovaciones han aparecido en la publicación de revistas, que tienen el potencial de causar cambios de gran alcance en la forma en que comunicamos la información científica. Entre estas tendencias está el aumento de Megarevistas y en particular PLoS ONE que en los últimos años ha llegado a dominar las revistas de acceso abierto. Estas revistas aunque revisadas por pares, por su solidez científica y metodológica aceptan una variedad más amplia de artículos puesto que cuestiones tales como “¿qué tan importante es el trabajo?” o “¿es relevante para el público?” no son criterios para el rechazo como en muchas otras revistas. A menudo vinculadas a Megarevistas están los casos de las revistas en cascada donde una editorial tiene una revista con una marca sólida y muchas presentaciones.
University Library “Svetozar Markovic” from Belgrade, Serbia, and partnering institutions organized Open Access Week at the University of Belgrade from October 22 to 28, 2012.
"Open Access and the World Bank" was presented by Mirjana Popovic from the World Bank, Belgrade, Serbia.
Publishing Officers Inter-Agency Meeting
(October 9, 2012)
Presenter: Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
Links: http://wrld.bg/wvwOK
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
Improving Access to Research Data: What does changing legislation mean for y...Marieke Guy
Presentation given at Bett: Technology in Higher Education Conference, Jan 30 - 31
http://www.bettshow.com/Default.aspx?nid=15&refer=17&id=mainLnk2&id1=ssubLnk8
Stellenbosch University, South Africa (November 8, 2012)
Presenter: Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
Links: http://wrld.bg/wvwOK
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
AgNIC 18th Annual Meeting (May 15, 2013)
Presenter: Jose de Buerba, Sr. Publishing Officer,
The World Bank
Links: http://wrld.bg/wvwOK
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8), (June 21, 2013)
Strategic decisions behind the Bank’s Open Agenda
Outline:
* Context
* The World Bank’s mission
* Traditional approach to development
* The World Bank’s Open Agenda
* Access to Information
* Open Data
* Open Access
* Why Open is right for development
Presenter: Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
Links: http://wrld.bg/wvwOK
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managersIryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Data For Policy Influence: How to Manage, Distribute, and Present Your DataForum One
To make smart policy decisions on important issues – whether global, national or local – leaders and influencers need information, analysis, and insight.
If your organization is in the business of supplying that information, then you already know that Data is an essential ingredient for success. You also know that in this digital age your briefs and reports – the traditional distribution tools for your insights – are competing for attention in an extremely competitive and noisy online marketplace of ideas. Attention is scarce, and gaining attention with 20-page PDFs online is not very easy.
So how can you put your data to better use digitally to extend your influence?
In this presentation, Laura Castillo-Page of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Kurt Voelker of Forum One dig into real-world examples from the AAMC and others about the first steps that organizations like yours can take to better present their data.
IN THIS PRESENTATION YOU WILL LEARN how NGO’s can evolve their use of data to be more digitally native by:
• Presenting data as engaging interactive visualizations
• Distributing data in more accessible formats
• Managing data more effectively on the backend
PRESENTED BY:
Laura Castillo-Page, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Diversity and Programs and Organizational Capacity Building Portfolio
Association of American Medical Colleges (aamc.org)
Kurt Voelker
Chief Technology Officer
Forum One (forumone.com)
*These slides are from a Forum One Webinar. Check out our YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/forumonevideo) for the audio/video of this virtual event.*
Quartz: One of the best known online business brands
Presented in class: Entrepreneurial Journalism (MA in New Media and Journalism) at Panteion University, Athens, Greece.
Subject taught by Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, Media & Culture, Greece, Head of Advertising and PR Lab
Slides for a talk on "Making Sense of the Future" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the ILI 2012 (#ILI2012) conference held at Olympia, London on 30-31 October 2012.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2012/a101/
Presented by Michael Victor, Abenet Yabowork, Jane Poole, Harrison Njamba, Erick Rutto and Peter Ballantyne at the ILRI open access week workshop, ILRI, Nairobi, 23-25 October 2019
Crowdsourcing based curation and user engagement in digital library designRose Holley
Rose Holley, Special Collections Curator at UNSW Canberra discusses the findings of her research into crowdsourcing based curation. Using the digitised historic Australian Newspapers as an example, she looks at how the functionality and interface was developed in close relationship with the users, and how this led on to text correction of newspaper articles. It is nearly ten years since this pioneering project began and the motivations and achievements of the 50,000 volunteers are examined over this time. She questions how successfully the goal of improving text quality and therefore search has been achieved. She proposes that if a similar project was begun now then artificial intelligence software would be used such as OverProof post OCR correction tool to improve the quality of the text. OverProof has been trained on the manual corrections of the Australian newspaper corpus and trials demonstrate it is able to dramatically improve the quality of the corpus. Volunteer text correction could still continue afterwards for difficult text but the software would do the main donkey work, allowing users to have a better quality search.
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OAA12 - Why open access is right for the World Bank.
1. Why Open Access is
Right for the World Bank
Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
Open Access Africa
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
November 5, 2012
2. Why Open Access is
Right for the World Bank
• It wasn’t always so
• It’s Mission Driven
• It’s Cutting Edge
• It makes us Relevant
• It makes us Open and Transparent
• It makes us Accountable
• It makes us Results Driven
• It Works
3. It wasn’t always so
“The Bank needs to exploit the commercial
potential of its publications”
It Wasn’t Always So
– Publisher’s Job Description, January 2008
4. World Bank Mission
Statement
Our Dream is a World Free of
Poverty
To fight poverty with passion and
professionalism for lasting results
To help people help themselves and their
environment by providing resources, sharing
knowledge, building capacity and forging
partnerships in the public and private sector
5. “We need to do development differently”
Robert Zoellick, President, The World Bank Group
New Direction: Democratizing Development
We need to throw open the doors, recognizing that others can find and
create their own solutions. And this open research revolution is underway.
We need to recognize that development knowledge is no longer the sole
province of the researcher, the scholar, or the ivory tower.
The aim is to open the treasure chest of the World Bank’s data
and knowledge to every village health care worker, every
researcher, everyone.
Georgetown University, September 2010
6. Conflict & Failed States Early Childhood Education Gender Equity
Investment Climate
Climate Change
Jobs Old Age Security Health
7. Conflict & Failed States Early Childhood Education Gender Equity
Investment Climate
Climate Change
Jobs Old Age Security Health
9. Four Pillars of the
World Bank’s Open Agenda
1. Access to Information
•Moved from positive to negative list
•Except for small list of exceptions,
documents and reports are available
•Millions pages viewed since July 2010
Open About
What We Do
“The World Bank’s Access to Information Policy is (Operations and
Results)
the gold standard for financial institutions…”
− Chad Dobson, Bank Information Center
12. Four Pillars of the
World Bank’s Open Agenda
1. Access to Information
2. Open Data
Open About Open About
What We Know What We Do
(Data and (Operations
Knowledge) and Results)
16. Four Pillars of the
World Bank’s Open Agenda
1. Access to Information
2. Open Data
3. Open Access Policy
4. Creative Commons Licensing
Open About
Open About
What We
What We Do
Know
(Operations
(Data and
and Results)
Knowledge)
20. (Millions) Dissemination of Print and Electronic
21. Strategic Review of
World Bank Publications
Create a cutting edge publishing model
that fully embraces free and open access,
with a particular emphasis on electronic dissemination
+ + =
22. Weekly Downloads
Weekly average: 8,604 Documents Downloaded
Large increase in October in number of downloads, doubling from September across all collections
23. Monthly Downloads
90
80
70
60
Thousands
50
40
30
20
10
0
Apr-12 May-12 Jun-12 Jul-12 Aug-12 Sep-12 Oct-12
Developing Countries Developed Countries
Monthly average: 36,874 Documents Downloaded;
42% from Developing Countries
24. Total Downloads
258,117 Downloads (58% developed, 42% developing countries)
Large increase in October in number of downloads, doubling from September across all collections
26. Timeline of Content Added
Total: Over 9,900 documents
Additional legacy content to be added in 2013
27. Timeline of Repository Development and Addition of Content
2012
OKR launches with 3,000 research outputs and
knowledge products from 2008 to present April
Content: Import of 1,000 externally published
Content: Import of 1,000 externally
May published journal articles
journal articles
Content: Import of 3,000 legacy publications
from 2005 to 2008 June
July President Kim takes office
Access to Information policy
implemented
July July
August Development: New custom workflow engine
Content: Import of 2,800+ Knowledge Notes
from 2005 to 2008 September
Inclusion of Global Financial Development Report
October 2013
Inclusion of Doing Business 2013 October
October Inclusion of World Development Report 2013
New functionality: Author Profiles November
New functionality: Enhanced download statistics,
November and citations reporting
28. Sustainable Open Access Publishing
in a Mission-Driven, Non-Profit Institution
• Content. Lots of good content
• Strong brand
• Enabling authorizing environment
OA Policy / CC Licensing / Publishing Policy
• Client oriented
Agile
Competitive
• Focus on customers
• Innovative
• Entrepreneurial
• Really good people
• Luck
31. Next Steps
• Network with, and learn from, the OA community
• Partner with other institutions for repository interoperability
South-South knowledge exchange
South-North knowledge exchange
• Develop Open Educational Resources
• Advocate for Open Access
• Where we can add value, help develop OA capacity
32. Why Open Access is
Right for the World Bank
• It’s Mission Driven
• It’s Cutting Edge
• It makes us Relevant
• It makes us Open and Transparent
• It makes us Accountable
• It makes us Results Driven
• It Works
If you’re a mission-driven, non-profit institution
open access is right for you too
