Dear Sridhar Ji, Namaste ! Thanks so much for your kind information. We hope to share and work together in future.
Best regards, Sharad Babu Shrestha +977 9851009119 On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Sridhar Gutam <gutam2...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Barnali Chakrabarti <barna.chakraba...@gmail.com> > Date: 29 July 2013 18:59 > Subject: [GOAL] Discussion on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes required by > Librarians for Open Access > > > {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....@gmail.com and barna.chakraba...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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