UNESCO publishes a book on Open Access to Knowledge in South Asia
UNESCO Office in New Delhi has released Open Access to Knowledge and
Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives -
the South Asian Scenario. This book illustrates South Asian
initiatives on open access to information and knowledge. It has its
genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported
international conferences and workshops.
Universal access to information and knowledge is a key principle in
UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by
word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the
doorsteps of communities.
In the information society, free flow of information is a fundamental
principle for bridging the knowledge gaps between privileged and
under-privileged communities. Open access to information and knowledge
is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital
environment, which is gaining momentum in developed countries that
already have necessary information infrastructure.
The emerging economies amongst the developing countries are not far
behind in building up necessary information infrastructure, essential
for sustainable economic development. These emerging countries,
however, have limitations in terms of bridging the digital divide
within their societies, due to the co-existence of marginalized and
privileged communities. The South Asia sub-region is now in the
forefront of the open access movement within developing countries,
with India being the most prominent partner in terms of its successful
open access and digital library initiatives.
The book describes successful digital library and open access
initiatives in the South Asia sub-region that are available in the
forms of open courseware, open access journals, metadata harvesting
services, national-level open access repositories and institutional
repositories. It may be considered an authoritative source-book on
open access development in this sub-region.
The publication is available online in PDF format: click here
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26393&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.
Source:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26397&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Thanking You
Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi
India
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