[BOAI] Success of open access presented in over thirty compelling stories

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Knowledge Exchange.  --Peter Suber.]


PRESS RELEASE
26 October 2011

Success of open access presented in over thirty compelling stories

Open access - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly
research - can transform scholarship and its impact. More than 30 compelling
stories have been collected from across Europe and further afield to show
this transformation in action.
The stories are from over 11 countries and are told by a wide variety of
stakeholders from individual researchers and journal editors to publishers
and companies and cover a multitude of disciplines. Some of the initiatives
have a rich history while others are more recent. All demonstrate the
benefits of open access, sometimes in quite unexpected ways. This range of
stories was commissioned by Knowledge Exchange and collected by Michelle
Pauli.

A trailblazing bioscience platform sharing bioscience research, globally

One example is Bioline International, this is a platform for quality peer
reviewed journals published in developing countries, from Bangladesh to
Venezuela. Launched in 1993 it was one of the pioneers of open access and
acts as a conduit for research to and from the developing world. Bioline's
success in sharing knowledge between north and south, east and west is clear
from site traffic statistics showing the spread of visitors. During a one
month period between July and August 2011, 1,032,844 visits came from 224
countries or territories.
http://www.oastories.org/2011/09/ukcanadabrazil-platform-bioline-international/

Open for re-use

The stories can be found on a dedicated, easy-to-use website and are open
for comments and ready to share. They are not only free for all to read and
refer to, but they are also licensed under a creative commons licence. To
allow for easier re-use the stories will be available for download and use
in other publications and websites.

The website showing the Open Access success stories can be found at:
www.oastories.org

The stories will be available for download from the Knowledge Exchange
website at: www.knowledge-exchange.info


On behalf of the Knowledge Exchange partners,

Anne Maja Wad
KE Secretary

Anne Maja Wad
Knowledge Exchange Secretary | www.knowledge-exchange.info <
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Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort of DEFF (Denmark), DFG
(Germany), JISC (United Kingdom) and SURFfoundation (The Netherlands)
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