To try and get a sense of how open access looks from different parts of the world, particularly as the strategy of engineering a global "flip" of subscription journals to a pay-to-publish gold OA model gains more traction, I am interested in talking to open access advocates in different parts of the world, ideally by means of matched interviews.
Earlier this month, for instance, I published a Q&A with Jeff MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley's University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer. (https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-view-fro m.html). Yesterday, I published a matched Q&A covering the same themes with Mahmoud Khalifa, a librarian at the Library of Congress Cairo Office, and DOAJ Ambassador for the Middle East and Persian Gulf. This interview can be read here: https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-view-from _24.html I have also been asking those I interview to comment on the answers given by their matched interviewee. Mahmoud Khalifa's response to the MacKie-Mason Q&A is incorporated in this post: https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-mahmoud.h tml I am open to suggestions for further matched interviews. Richard Poynder
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