[Pal-dc] IFLA/EIFL/COAR Open Access Workshop at the WSIS Forum 2012, May 17th, 16.15-18.00

[Stuart Hamilton]

Dear Colleagues

 

I'm pleased to draw your attention to a workshop organised by IFLA (The
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), EIFL
(Electronic Information for Libraries, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition) and COAR (Confederation of Open Access
Repositories) at this week's World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) Forum in Geneva (http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Home.aspx).
The workshop takes place on Thursday 17th May, 16.15-18.00.

 

 

 

Rethinking the Agenda for Development: Open Access Policies and Practice

 

Open access seeks to remove price and permission barriers that prevent
knowledge from being shared. It creates an unprecedented opportunity to
provide equality of access to essential research information and to
raise awareness of national research. The WSIS Forum 2012 offers a
timely opportunity to look at current achievements in the field of open
access - policies and practices - and hold a detailed discussion about
their implications for development and how open access can help to
rethink the development agenda. 

 

The workshop's starting point will be a presentation of best practice
regarding the implementation of open access policies - how they were
drawn up and implemented, and whether their results not only increased
content but also allayed concerned on the part of researchers. Following
an introduction of policies the workshop will call on presenters who are
currently in the middle of similar processes, and they will describe the
challenges they are facing to implement their programmes. The second
part of the workshop will focus more on advice and tools to implement
open access policies in support of development. Participants will be
encouraged to bring their problems, hypothetical or real, to the panel
for advice and discussion. This interactive session will be able to
harness contributions from in the room and also from remote
participants. Presenters will be joined on a panel by an expert on the
development agenda.

 

Panellists in Geneva:

 

*         Lars Bjornshauge, Director of Library Relations, SPARC Europe
and Chair of International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) Open Access Taskforce (Denmark)

*         Eve Gray, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational
Technology, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

*         Silvia Nakano, Director of the Science & Technology National
Directorate of Physical Resources, Ministry of Science Technology and
Productive Innovation (Argentina)

*         Stuart Hamilton, Director of Policy and Advocacy,
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(United Kingdom)

 

Further information on the session can be found here:
http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/DraftAgenda.aspx?se=42173

 

Remote Participation 

 

For those of you who cannot make it to Geneva, you can follow in the
workshop online, and even use the remote participation facilities to ask
questions to the panellists or make observation. Further information can
be found here: 

http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2012/Agenda/RemoteParticipationRooms.asp
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Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions, and
do feel free to forward this message further to your networks. For
anyone with an interest in open access who will not be in Geneva, I
strongly encourage you to consider remote participation so that we can
have a good discussion and make sure that all viewpoints are covered.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stuart

 

Stuart Hamilton

Director of Policy and Advocacy

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands

 

00 31 70 314 0884

 

Twitter: @iflaspa

 

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