[GOAL] Re: Discussion on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes required by Librarians for Open Access]

[Sanjaya Mishra]

Hi Dr. Morrison,
Thanks for this very useful reference. Cost and economics play very
important role in deciding in favor of Open Access. The rising cost of peer
reviewed information has been a problem for many in the developed countries
too. We will look into this issue at greater depth, and see how we can
create a lesson around "Cost and economics of Open Access".

Since we are developing self directed learning materials for Open Access,
suggestions from the members of GOAL would assist us further.

with regards, sanjaya

Sanjaya Mishra
Director, CEMCA



On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Heather Morrison <hmorris2 at uottawa.ca>wrote:

> greetings Barnali Roy Choudhury,
>
> It is very good to see this initiative. I am a professor of information
> studies who has developed and taught courses on scholarly communication
> and open access, and if desired I would be happy to contribute towards
> this project.
>
> Your list of key areas to study is a good one. May I suggest that you add
> a little bit about the basics of the economics of scholarly communication
> and the potential for transition to open access. My recent article on this
> topic in First Monday may be useful in this respect - not wishing to
> promote my own work so much as this is a macro level view of the economics
> and I'm not aware of anything that explains the situation as clearly as
> this:
> http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4370
>
> Wishing you all the best in this initiative,
>
> Dr. Heather Morrison
>
> > {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:
> > smishra.col at gmail.com and barna.chakrabarti at gmail.com
> > --
> > 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​
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>
> --
> Dr. Heather Morrison
> Assistant Professor
> École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
> University of Ottawa
> http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>
>
> --
> Dr. Heather Morrison
> Assistant Professor
> École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
> University of Ottawa
> http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
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