[GOAL] The Open Access Interviews: Dr Indrajit Banerjee, Director of UNESCO's Knowledge Societies Division

[Richard Poynder]

The mission of UNESCO, which was founded in 1945, is to "contribute to the
building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and
intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture,
communication and information."

 

An important plank in that mission is a commitment to help build inclusive
and equitable knowledge societies. We should not be surprised, therefore,
that UNESCO supports the open access movement, we should not be surprised
that it was the first UN agency to adopt an OA policy, and we should not be
surprised that it now makes its own publications open access.

 

Today UNESCO's OA repository (OAR) provides free access to over 500 of its
own books, reports and articles in over 11 languages, and in recent years it
has created a number of OA portals, directories, knowledge banks and Open
Access indicators.

 

But what does UNESCO believe its role in the open access movement should be,
what does it view to be the current issues in open access, and what are its
plan for open access going forward?

 

An interview with Dr Indrajit Banerjee, Director of UNESCO's Knowledge
Societies Division can be accessed here:

 

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/the-open-access-interviews-dr-indrajit
.html

 

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