2. Open Access
Publishing and
Education as aTool
to Achieve SDGs:
Current Situation ofThe
Egyptian Universities
Prof. Ahmed-Refat AG Refat
Community Med. Dept. ZU
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5. SDGs
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On 25 September 2015, the 194 countries of
the UN General Assembly
adopted the 2030 Development Agenda
titled Transforming our world: the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development
(SDGs)
The agenda of the SDGs is a set of 17
aspirational "Global Goals" with 169
targets .
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Three Pillars of Sustainable
Development
All three pillars of sustainable
development – economic
development, social inclusion
and environmental protection
– need education , training
and research as key
catalysts.
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7. Higher Education Roles in SDGs
As education, training and
research are among the main
functions of higher education ,the
universities are being called to lead
the sustainability transformation ,
and to prepare leaders of the
future.
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8. SDGs and Education
The SDGs are not independent from
each other – they need to be
implemented in an integrated manner.
Lessons from history in the
development of countries and societies
has shown that education is central
to achieving these goals.
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Creating knowledge and
understanding through science equips
us to find solutions to today‟s acute
economic, social and environmental
challenges and to achieving
sustainable development .
http://en.unesco.org/themes/science-sustainable-future
Science for Sustainable Future is a Main
Current Theme of UNESCO
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10. Scientific Knowledge Must Be
Accessible & Open
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The progress of scientific
knowledge in any field depends on
retrieval and accessibility of
relevant literature and in this
regard archiving and access of
OA literature plays a major role.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3978960/
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15. Education , LLL & OA at the heart of
SDGs
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* Life Long Learning and
* Open Access,
are recommended as key
tools to achieve SDGs
By Three Recent Global Forums
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16. Education & OA at the heart of three
Global Forums
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1- World Education Forum ,
Incheon, Korea: (UNESCO -May 2015)
2- WORLD SUMMIT ON THE
INFORMATION SOCIETY FORUM
Geneva : ( ITU ,May 2016)
3- 9th Global Conference on Health
Promotion,
Shanghai : (W.H.O Nov. 2016)
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We will focus our efforts on
access, equity and inclusion,
quality and learning outcomes,
within a lifelong learning
approach.
Joyce L. Ogburn (2011)
Lifelong learning requires lifelong access
College & Research Libraries News. vol. 72 no. 9: 514-515
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19. 2- WORLD SUMMIT ON THE
INFORMATION SOCIETY
FORUM (WSIS)
Geneva, 03 May 2016
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ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and
communication technologies – ICTs.
http://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2016/Agenda/Webcast/Archive
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20. WSIS-2016
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“Science, Technology and
Innovation is essential for
achieving SDG2030 and Open
Access and Open Data will be
the enabler”
Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, UNESCO
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22. 3 Pillars of Health Promotion
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23. Health literacy empowers
individual citizens.
Health literacy is founded
on inclusive and equitable
access to quality education
and life-long learning.
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24. Health Literacy must be
an integral part of the
skills, and competencies
developed over a
lifetime, through the
learning curriculum.
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G#4 Education
“Ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education
and promote lifelong
learning opportunities for
all”
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27. SDG 16.10
The target, SDG16.10, states plainly that
all countries guarantee to:
“ensure public access to
information and protect
fundamental freedoms,
in accordance with national
legislation and international
agreements.”
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28. Panton Principles
for Open Data in Science
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Science is based on
building on, reusing and
openly criticising the
published body of
scientific knowledge.
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For science to effectively
function, and for society to
harvest the full benefits from
scientific endeavours, it is
crucial that science data be
made [open] !!!!!
(http://opendefinition.org/).
Panton Principles
for Open Data in Science
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31. Origin of OA Concept
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“Open Access”
term was coined in 2002
as part of the
Budapest Open Access
Initiative*
( BOAI )
www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
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32. Basic Idea of OA
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“Making Science
Outputs available
online without price
barriers and without
most permission
barriers."
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33. Information and Research
Gap
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The developing countries have faced a
two-fold gap :
• The inability to afford subscriptions to
journals ( N – S gap)
• The inability to integrate national
research into the global knowledge pool
(S - N and S – S gaps).
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Open Access is the free,
immediate, online availability of
research articles coupled with
the rights to use these articles
fully in the digital environment.
Open Access ensures that
anyone, anywhere, can access
and use these results.
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35. Origin of OA Concept
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OA making
published research freely
available to anyone with an internet
connection rather than keeping
those results hidden behind a
subscription paywall or
permission barriers
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36. Open Access VS Free Access
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“Free access' or „Public access”
means : the free-to-view right ,
but restricted re-use rights..
Open Access = Free to view plus
Full reuse rights for everyone
( 5 R s )
www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
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37. Under OA Policy the Users are freely to:
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1. Retain -
2. Reuse -
3. Revise -
4. Remix -
5. Redistribute -
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38. Open Content Permissions Rights
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Retain – ( download, duplicate, store, and
manage)
Reuse – ( in a class, in a study group, on a
website, in a video)
Revise - ( adapt, adjust, modify, translate )
Remix – ( combine the content with other
material to create a new one )
Redistribute – (share with others
or a copy of the content to a friend)
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40. Authors’ right in a Gold OA Journals
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For the papers that published in a
Gold OA journal ,the authors retain
copyright under the use of
a Creative Commons License
(CC-BY) .
Publications can be reused as long as
the original author is correctly
attributed.
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41. History of Open Access
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1990s Access to the WWW and online
publishing becomes the norm.
1991 The first OA subject directory (arXive).
1998 The JMIR was created .
2001 The CC initiative is founded.
2002 The key OA statement at Budapest.
2003 DOAJ is founded
2005 OA policies start to be adopted.
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46. Green Route Vs Gold Route
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Journals
علمٌة مجالت
Repositories
رقمٌة مستودعات
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47. Gold and Green Open Access
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OA delivered by journals is
called gold OA, and
OA delivered by repositories is
called green OA.
Work that is not open access, or
that is available only for a price,
is called toll access (TA).
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49. Benefits of OA
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1-Authors: it gives them
a worldwide audience
and increases the
visibility and impact of
their work;
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50. Benefits of OA
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2-Universities: it
increases the visibility of
their faculties and
research, reduces their
expenses for journals,
and advances their
mission to share
knowledge;
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51. Benefits of OA
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3-Teachers and
students: it puts rich and
poor on an equal footing by
eliminating the need for
payments or permissions
to reproduce and distribute
content;
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52. Benefits of OA
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4-Libraries: with Open
Access, librarians can help
users find the information
they need, regardless of
the budget-enforced
limits on the library's own
collection;
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53. Benefits of OA
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5-Readers/ citizens :
it gives them barrier-free
access to the literature
they need;
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54. Benefits of OA
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6-Journals: it makes their
articles more
visible, discoverable, retrievable,
and useful.
This visibility enables to effectively
attract submissions, subscriptions
and advertising;
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55. Benefits of OA
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7-Governments:
Promotes democracy by sharing non-
classified government information as
widely as possible.
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56. Benefits of OA
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8-Citizens: it informs on
decisions that are important
to everyone. It gives them
access to research
documents, most of which is
unavailable in public
libraries and for which they
have paid through their
taxes;
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57. Benefits of OA
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9-Donors: it increases the
return on their investment in
research, making the results more
widely available.
It also provides a fundamental
fairness to taxpayers or public access
to the results of publicly-funded
research;
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59. Benefits of Open Access
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▶ OA improves the speed, efficiency and
efficacy of research
▶ OA increases the visibility, usage and
impact of research
▶ OA is an enabling factor in
interdisciplinary research
▶ OA enables computation upon the
research literature
▶ OA allows the interested public ,
professional, practitioner and business
communities, to benefit from research
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60. Current Status of OA Regarding
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1. OA Policies….
2. OA Publishing ( Journals)….
3. OA Archiving ( Repositories )…
4. OA Learning (OCWs - OERs)….
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61. WHO supports open access
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WHO supports OA to the
published output of its
activities as
a fundamental
part of its mission ..
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WHO OA policy
From 1 July 2014, journal articles or book
chapters produced by individuals or
institutions who are funded in whole or
in part by WHO must be published in
one of the following ways
In an open-access journal (such as those published by
BioMed Central, Hindawi and PLoS);
In a subscription journal that offers a hybrid open-access.
http://www.who.int/about/open-access-faq/en/index1.html
WHO supports open access
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UNESCO believes that OA has a
fundamental role to support
the SDGs and is committed to
making OA one of the central
supporting agendas to achieve the
SDGs.
UNESCO OA Policy
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67. The European University
Association (EUA)
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All scientific papers to be
free by 2020 under EU
proposals
Results of research
supported by public and
public-private funds set to be
made freely available to all.
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68. World Bank OA Policy
Policy Rationale
The World Bank supports the free online
communication and exchange of
knowledge …. It is therefore committed
to open access, which…discover
pertinent information
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WB.Administrative Manual AMS 14.40. April 2012
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69. OA policies movement
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Institutional OA Policy
is committed to
disseminating the outputs of
research and scholarship as
widely as possible
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70. OA policies movement
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Universities, faculties, and departments are
establishing open access policies
to make their research and
scholarship more accessible
to scholars, educators,
policymakers, and citizens
worldwide.
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71. OA Policies
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OA policies for universities .
There are two basic types of policy
– voluntary :requests researchers
to make their work OA by self-
archiving it in the institutional
repository:
mandatory: requires this action.
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72. OA policies movement
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The Registry of Open Access Repository
Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP)
lists about 800 open access policies adopted
by academic institutions, departments, and
research funders worldwide.
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73. Current Status of OA Regarding
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1. OA Policies….
2. OA Publishing ( Journals)….
3. OA Archiving ( Repositories )…
4. OA Learning (OCWs - OERs)….
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74. Open Science Directory
ATOZ.
A Search tool for OA journals
Developed by EBSCO , UNISCO and
the Hasselt University
http://atoz.ebsco.com/
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5918 Academic peer-reviewed
books from168 publishers
http://www.doabooks.org
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB
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78. J4F
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Journals for Free
J4F is a directory of open access
journals
https://journals4free.com/about.jsp
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79. OA Journals In Developing
Countries
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Several initiatives …include:
Bioline International
SciELO, Scientific Electronic
Library Online:
AJOL, African Journals Online:
AsiaJOL, Asia Journals Online:
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80. Online Repositories
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Online repositories, extend the
traditional role of libraries to
support research at all stages
and preserve, manage, and
provide access to many types
of digital materials in a variety
of formats.
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81. Examples of subject-based repositories
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Physics and mathematics disciplines
( arXiv)
Social Science Research Network
(SSRN),
Research Papers in Economics
(RePEc)
Health and Biomedical research
( PMC )
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82. Institutional Repository
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IR is an online locus for:
1. collecting
2. preserving
3. disseminating
4.managing
the intellectual output of a
research institution.
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83. Benefits of institutional repository
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1- For the Individual
Provide a central archive of
their work.
Increase the dissemination,
visibility and impact of their
research.
Acts as a full CV
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2- For the Institution
Increases visibility and
prestige
Acts as a showcase & e-
portfolio to funding
sources, potential new
faculty and students..
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85. Benefits of institutional repository
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3- For Society
Provide access to the
world‟s research
Ensures long-term
preservation of institutes‟
academic output
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86. Open Educational Resources
(OER)
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OERs :Any type of educational
materials that are in the public
domain. OERs range from
textbooks to curricula, syllabi,
lecture notes, assignments, tests,
projects, audio, video and
animation.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-
knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
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87. Open Educational Resources
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OER are free and open digital publications of
high quality materials organized as courses
that include lectures, related reading
materials, snapshots of discussions,
assignments, evaluations, etc used in
academic environments such universities,
training institutes, schools and colleges
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88. OpenCourseWare (OCW)
OCW are course lessons
created at universities and
published for free via
the Internet.
OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining
traction in Europe and then the United States have become a
worldwide means of delivering educational content.
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89. MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based
publication of virtually all MIT course content.
OCW is open and available to the world and is a
permanent MIT activity.
Unlocking Knowledge
Empowering Minds
2340 courses
200 million visitors
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https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm#
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OCW uses the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
license,
So you can do all things as long as you follow
three simple rules:
1. Tell people who the original author is.
2. Make it free.
3. Give what you make the same license.
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92. Recommendations
To cross this gap , the following
recommendations are proposed:
1- Raising the awareness and promote
Open Access within the academic
community.
2- All universities should officially
adopt and implement their own
Open Access Policy.
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3- Creation of or upgrading institutional
repository at each university .These
repositories should be established and
managed according to current best practices
OA protocols .
4- Support self-archiving, ( Green OA)
until complete conversion to Open Access
publication (Gold Open Access).
5- Conducting training programes for
Open Access and Open Science.
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