2012/09/14: Improving Open Access to Information and Knowledge, presentation by Sanjaya Mishra to the students of Post-Graduate Diploma in eLearning (PGDEL) at Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE), IGNOU

1. Sanjaya Mishra, PhD
Director
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Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia

2. The Context:
Scholarly Communication
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3. What is the Problem?
 Exponential growth of
knowledge?
 Business of knowledge
and value creation?
 Internet enabled
infrastructure?
 Access to technology?
 Access to information?
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4. History of Open Access
 Budapest Open Access
Initiative (2002)
 Berlin Declaration (2003)
 Bethesda Statement
(2003)
 Many declarations…
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5. Open Access
Open Access is the provision of free
access to peer-reviewed, scholarly
and research information to all. It
envisages that the rights holder
grants worldwide irrevocable right of
access to copy, use, distribute,
transmit, and make derivative works
in any format for any lawful activities
with proper attribution to the original
author.
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6. Open Access: Four Dimensions
Free
Online
Open Permanent
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7. Open Access: Knowledge Map
 Technology drivers
 National R&D systems
 Institutional frameworks
 Communities of
researchers
 Societal expectations
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8. Types of Open Access: A matrix

9. Types of Information: Copyright and Payment
Free
Many web-
based Mostly
information information
produced by
Govt. and
released online
Books that have
Payment-based
Printed Books
available from expired copyright
commercial and made
publishers available by
commercial
publishers
Copyright Public Domain
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10. Types of Information: Permission and Payment
Free
Information in the
Payment-based
Copyrighted
information public domain
Permission Permission not
required for reuse required for reuse
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11. Universe of Knowledge: Position of Open Access
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12. Foundations of Open Access
• Freedom (as in free of cost
and free speech)
• Flexibility ( choice of
licensing mechanisms)
• Fairness ( to authors, funding
bodies and society)

13. The Philosophy of Open Access
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14. Open Access and Universal Access
• Universal access to
information and knowledge is
the goal
• Barriers to Universal Access:
censorship, language,
accessibility, and connectivity
(Perter Suber)
• Open Access is a sub-set of
Universal Access

15. Open Access Initiatives
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16. Open Access Statistics
 Gold open Access (8115 OA journals in DOAJ)
 Green Open Access (2211 repositories)
 Platinum Open Access (Social networking approach)
– Mendeley, Research Gate, Academia.edu etc.
 67% of Journals permit some form of self-archiving
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17. Open Access Systems
 Open Access Journal Software, eg. OJS of PKP
 Open Access repository software (many, but most
predominant are Dspace, Eprints, Fedora)
 Easy to manage and run these systems
 Indian Journal of Open Learning is hosted using OJS
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18. What each one of Us can do?
 Promote OA journals and repositories
 Ask our institutions to create OA repositories
 Publish in OA journals
 Submit our papers to OA repositories, especially institutional
repositories (if your institution does not have a repository, you
can still submit at
 Encourage institutions to adopt OA policies
 Encourage setting up of OA funds
 Promote quality of OA journals
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19. Questions/Comments
 Thank you very much for your attention.
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