Great indeed we need a self learning curriculum for this
important Open Access discipline!
I have a quick comment for the modules. I think Authors Addendum,
Software for Repositories and Journals, Conferences and
Publishing Monographs, Alternate Metrics for articles may
suitably be added in the modules.
Sridhar
On 29 July 2013 18:59, Barnali Chakrabarti
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
{Apologies for Cross Posting}
I am currently assisting the Commonwealth Educational Media
Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in developing Curriculum and
Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Tool for Open Access for
researchers and library and information professionals as a
project of UNESCO. The UNESCO adopted Open Access strategy in
2011, and with effect from 1 July 2013 it has become fully
Open Access. Capacity building to promote Open Access is one
of the important strands of the UNESCO strategy. The UNESCO
Open Access Forum 2011 also recommended training of young
researchers and library professionals on Open Access.
As a first step, we would like to seek help of experts though
a discussion on this platform to identify Knowledge, Skills
and Attitudes needed for Open Access by Library and
Information Professionals and Researchers. So, we will have
two strands of discussion: One for Librarians and the other
for Researchers. This week we start with training needs for
Librarians…
Librarians play a significant role in providing access to
peer reviewed information published in journals and help
manage local repositories. Sometime back we did a Delphi
study with select experts, which revealed the following as
key areas for the librarians to study:
/ /
*/Module 1: Foundations/*
1. Introduction to Open Access: Definition, types (green,
gold, delayed), OA journals (gold and hybrid), OA books, OA
repositories, benefits, barriers (publisher resistance),
philosophy of access to knowledge, disciplinary trends; Open
Access Policy development, including funder policies
2. Copyrights and licensing mechanisms for Open Access, such
as the creative commons licenses, copyleft and publishers’
embargo in self-archiving
/ /
*/Module 2: Practical Options and Systems/*
3. Repositories and issues involved in creating and
maintaining repositories, author self-archiving
4. Open Access Journal publishing systems and processes
/ /
*/Module 3: Initiatives, Implications and Issues/*
5. Searching of Open Access information (Vehicles for Open
Access: OAIster and other Open Access Search Engines,
PubMed), Metadata related issues, SHERPA RoMEO, DOAJ, DOAB,
GOAP, OA Map, etc.
6. Impact of Open Access on dissemination of knowledge,
citation advantages, estimating impact; Changing practices in
scholarly communication, including open peer review, emerging
approaches to recognition of scholarly works
7. Implications of online-only format for long-term
preservation of OA content (Google Books, Internet Archive,
Hathi Trust, other non-U.S. large initiatives)
While this is useful, we need to identify the Knowledge,
Skills and Attitudes to develop the curriculum and content
learning materials. You may also like to comment on the
suitability of the above topics. If you want to share more on
the topic privately, kindly do so in the emails:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> and
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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With Regards,
Barnali Roy Choudhury
Project Associate (Open Access)
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
13/14 Sarv Priya Bihar
New Delhi 110016
www.cemca.org <http://www.cemca.org>
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Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO)
Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology), Central Institute for
Subtropical Horticulture <http://cishlko.org/>
Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum
<http://www.icar.org.in/node/1168>
Convenor, Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia>
Country Representative, Young Professionals' Platform for
Agricultural Research for Development <http://ypard.net/>
Rehmankhera, Kakori Post
Lucknow 226101, Uttar Pradesh, India
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