[GOAL] Re: Promoting Open Access amongst young researchers

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

Dear Ms. Chakrabarti,

One important notion to add is the issue of the centre/periphery divide.
On the surface, the "universality" of science seems to deny this divide,
but universality only applies to concepts, theories, and methods; it
does not apply to problem choice, and, of course, the dissemination of
scientific knowledge is anything but equal: some researchers are a lot
more equal than others, to use a well-known phrase from Orwell.

Related to this issue is the question of power within science: how does
it play out? To whose advantage? Who holds the trump cards? Etc.

All these concerns could fall under "Process of scholarly
communication", of course, but they are sufficiently crucial to be
singled out  and studied in themselves. In a sense, they deal with the
political dimension of open access (as distinguished from policy).

Best regards,

Jean-Claude Guédon


Le vendredi 09 août 2013 à 15:03 +0530, Barnali Chakrabarti a écrit :
> After getting feedback from you all (in our personal mail and
> mailing list), we revealed some important topics to articulate
> Researchers Curriculum. These are...
> 
> 1. Process of Scholarly Communication
> 
> 2. Understanding Open Access
> 
> 3. Open Access Journals and Open Access Repositories
> 
>  - DOAJ
> 
>  - DOAR
> 
>  - Open DOAR
> 
>  - ROAR
> 
> 4. Increasing Impact of your research
> 
> 5. Tools to promote Open Access (SHERPA, ROMEO, GOAP, ROARMAP)
> 
> I look forward to more comments in this week.
> 
> Thanks Again,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Barnali Roy Choudhury
> Project Associate (Open Access)
> 
> Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
> 
> 
> 13/14 Sarv Priya Bihar
> 
> New Delhi 110016
> 
> 
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Jean-Claude Guédon
Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal

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