Hi Stevan, when mentioning HINARI you might want to mention also AGORA http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/privacy_policy.php Greetings, Edith
Dr. Edith Hesse Head, Information and Documentation International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) A.A. 6713 Cali, Colombia Phone: +57 (2) 445 0034 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.ciat.cgiar.org Solutions That Cross Frontiers CIAT is a Future Harvest center supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 5:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Access-Denial, Impact-Denial and the Developing and Developed World On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Sharon Stephens Brehm wrote: > Although there are many benefits from OA, I am particularly interested > in the impact OA would have on educational and economic development in > transitional societies. There is a good deal of OA activity in the developing world. Here are some topic threads: "Access-Denial, Impact-Denial and the Developing and Developed World" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2171.html "Third World Academy of Sciences and open access" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3028.html In a nutshell: Users in the South need access to Northern research output. Southern research output also needs to be made more visible and accessible to users in the North. The symmetry is instructive, because it is not just the South that has impact and access problems: The South is very much with all of us, as we all have far more Have-Not universities than Harvards. And even the Harvards have an impact problem, if somewhat less of an access problem than the rest of us: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#29.Sitting Please see Subbiah Arunachalam's article "India's march towards open access" on SciDev net ttp://www.scidev.net/quickguides/index.cfm?fuseaction=qguideReadItem&type=3& itemid=243&language=1&qguideid=4 and Leslie Chan & Barbara Kirsop's important work through BioLine International http://www.bioline.org.br/ > When I had the opportunity to visit some university libraries in India and > Africa, it was clear to me that they could never catch up with the library > world as we used to know it in the US and Europe... > > I also wonder, however, if at least transitionally, we might need a sort > of global OhioLINK to facilitate sharing those electronic resources that > are not yet OA and providing access to materials that are not available > electronically. (OhioLINK is the state-wide consortium of Ohio's college > and university libraries along with the State Library of Ohio). There are some such projects too, such as Hinari: http://www.healthinternetwork.org/ Others in this Forum will know more. But do not underestimate what the Developing World has to offer the Developed World, rather than just vice versa. Open Access is a two-way street. > In these complicated and troubled times, I cannot think of a better > project than for the rich countries to give their intellectual capital > away in order to raise the level of education and development around > the world. And charity really begins at home here: If we make all of our own research output OA, all other institutions worldwide, whether Haves or have-Nots, will be better off (in terms of access) -- and so will we (in terms of impact)! Best wishes, Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h tml Post discussion to: [email protected] Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
