Dear Kathleen thanks for sharing this instructive information please Regards
Dr Cécile COULIBALY PhD en sciences de l'information et de la Documentation Sous-Directrice en charge des commissions scientifiques Coordinatrice des activités techniques de la Bibliothèque Virtuelle de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique de Côte d'Ivoire Cel : +225 02 02 77 81/ +225 06 08 47 09 E-mail : cecile.coulib...@uvci.edu.ci Site Web : www.uvci.edu.ci Adresse : Cocody II-Plateaux - 28 BP 536 Abidjan *Mon université avec moi, partout et à tout moment.* *Nous laver les mains à l'eau et au savon est indispensable pour lutter contre le coronavirus * Le mer. 9 sept. 2020 à 16:34, Kathleen Shearer <m.kathleen.shea...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Dear colleagues (please excuse the cross posting / disculpe el mensaje > cruzado), > > Open access and open science are global trends, but we tend to hear most > about what is happening in Europe and North America. > > Asia is rapidly increasing in prominence on the world stage, both in terms > of R&D as well as scientific production. According to UNESCO, in 2015, the > Asia region encompassed close to half of global expenditure on research and > development (R&D, 42%) and for research outputs, Asia has been extremely > prolific and growing quickly, with China leading the world in numbers of > published research articles. But Asia is also a very diverse continent, > representing many different languages and cultures and this diversity must > be reflected in the way open science is implemented. International > alignment, common standards and interoperability must be balanced with > local priorities, needs and requirements. > > At COAR, we believe it is important to have venues and opportunities that > allow participants to focus on issues of local importance in their own > region. Asia OA is a community hosted by COAR with the aim of supporting > information sharing about open science policies and practices across the > Asian continent. On a biannual basis, COAR along with a different local > host, organizes an Asia OA meeting. Previous meetings were held in Tokyo, > Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. > > The Asia OA meeting is hosted this year by the Korea Institute of Science > And Technology Information, KISTI and offers participants the opportunity > to learn more about what is happening in Asia related to open access and > open science. This meeting, which is normally attended by delegates from > different Asian communities, is taking place online this year and is > therefore open to everyone. > > The meeting began today (September 9 - 16, 2020), and offers a mix of > prerecorded presentations, live panels, and a session with country reports > from 14 different jurisdictions. > > For more information, please visit the meeting website: > https://2020korea.asiaoa.org > > Best, Kathleen > > Kathleen Shearer > Executive Director > Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) > www.coar-repositories.org > > > > -- > Spare a few minutes before September 9, 2020 to take the LIBSENSE survey > of priority training needs for Open Science in Africa - > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P96HS8T > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "LIBSENSE Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to libsense-discuss+unsubscribe@ren.africa. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/ren.africa/d/msgid/libsense-discuss/96E92966-1861-4C82-8DBC-B913BC1D055A%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/ren.africa/d/msgid/libsense-discuss/96E92966-1861-4C82-8DBC-B913BC1D055A%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . >
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