[governance] UNESCO Regional LAC Consultation on,,Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies,
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 22:56:19 EST 2013
*Regional LAC Consultation on*
*Open Access to Scientific Information and Research – Concept and Policies,*
*5 to 8 March, 2013
Hotel Wyndham***
*Kingston, Jamaica*
*Provisional Agenda ( Draft ver 28_Feb 2013)*
Introduction:**
Open Access (OA) is a term widely used to refer to unrestricted online
access to articles published in scholarly journals. Since the events that
took place in Budapest and Berlin in early 2000s, it has remained as one of
the most passionately discussed topics among the scientific and scholarly
community. It is an ongoing movement with many advocates and proponents
unfalteringly championing the cause. OA movement is aligned with the
overarching Millennium Development Goals (MDG) with its focus on bolstering
human capital and the World Summit on the Information Society’s goal of
building open and inclusive knowledge societies. To achieve the goal of
open and inclusive knowledge societies, different approaches and strategies
have been adopted by UNESCO.
UNESCO supports OA for the benefit of the global flow of knowledge,
innovation and equitable socio‐economic development. Its constitution,
written much before the advent of electronic publishing, mandates: *UNESCO
should 'maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge, by assuring the
conservation and protection of the world's inheritance of books, works of
art and monuments of history and science*' (Constitution, art, 1.2 c).
UNESCO’s open suite strategy (now referred as Open Solutions) primarily
includes the Open Educational Resources (OER); Open Access to scientific
literature (OA); Open Training Platform (OTP) and Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS).
Access to scientific information is a major problem, especially due to a
high and increasing cost of peer-reviewed journals and fluctuations in the
exchange rates. Open Access is the provision of free access to
peer-reviewed, scholarly and research information to all. It envisages that
the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy,
use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any
lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author.
Objectives: ****
The main objective of the Regional Consultation will be to share how free
and unrestricted access to research and scholarly communication can
increase the impact of research and benefit research institutions, authors,
journal publishers and the society as a whole. The Consultation will
examine how the context of Open Access in the region can add to the
productivity, visibility and accessibility of research and research
outcomes. The Consultation will create an enabling mechanism to assess
contexts of mandates or policy framework that surrounds Open Access. It
will provide an opportunity for reflecting upon case studies and examples
of how Open Access has influenced teaching, research and development in the
region. Workshop participants will also have an opportunity to
contributetowards highlighting priority areas for intervention to
achieve “Openness”
in the region and individual countries. Participants are also expected to
review the UNESCO OA policy templates and workout specific policy for their
own country/institution and develop a work plan on how to implement the
same with specific timeline.
· Strengthen awareness of the participants on the potential of Open
Access in scientific knowledge sharing that can be dramatically
accelerated by ICTs; ****
· Provide analysis for anticipating foreseeable trends and emerging
challenges in order to enable stakeholders to develop strategies and
policies for implementation of Open Access;****
· Develop a partnership and collaboration among interested
stakeholders as an enabling mechanism to improve access to and sharing of
scientific information and research through Open Access. ****
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Expected Outcomes:****
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The Regional Consultation of the Open Access is expected to achieve the
following results: ****
· UNESCO’s stakeholders enabled to understand trends and emerging
challenges related to the impact of open access on scientific information
acquisition and sharing; ****
· Context and the utility of Open Access policy discussed and
regional specificities analysed as barriers or support for Open Access
Policy adoption; ****
· Specific technology generated trends, and their consequences for
development in scientific information and research sharing better
understood; ****
· Collaborative and collective efforts and actions behind the Open
Access movement discussed and their policy implications are appreciated; ***
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Best practices of Open Access Initiatives from the region and beyond
discussed and taken note of as a model to follow.****
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Agenda:****
*Day 1 (Tuesday 5 March 2013): Inauguration and; Introduction to the
Consultation*
09:00- 10:00
*Registration*
10.00 -11.30
*Inauguration *
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• Welcome Remarks: Ms. Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth and Culture
and Chairperson, Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO
• Introduction and establishing the context: Dr. Indrajit
Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Society Division, CI Sector, UNESCO
• Address by Honorable Ambassador Yasuo Takase, the Embassy of
Japan for Jamaica, Bahamas and Belize
• Address by Professor Eon Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor,
University of West Indies
• Inaugural Address: Hon. Julian Robinson, Minister of State for
Science, Technology, Energy and Mining,, Jamaica
• Closing remarks and Vote-of Thanks: Mr. Robert Parua,
Director-in-charge, UNESCO Kingston Cluster
11.00 -11.30:****
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45****
Session I: ****
Session Chair and Key-note speech by Prof. Ronald Young,
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of West Indies
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Rapporteur:
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Introduction to the concept and underlying principles of UNESCO’s
Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information and Research:
Dr. Bhanu Neupane
12:45- 14:00****
Lunch
14:00-16:30****
Session II: Presentation of Regional Significance
Session Chair: Dr. Indrajit Banerjee, Director, Knowledge Societies
Division, UNESCO
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Mr. Abel Parker: SciELO: 15 years of Open Access Movement****
Ms. Dominique Babini: OA in the LAC Region****
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15.30 -16.00:****
Coffee break
18.00 ****
Reception Cocktail by Ministries, National Commission
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*Day 2 (Wednesday 6 March 2013): Situation of Open Access in GRULAC
(Country Presentations)*
The day will be dedicated for Country-level presentations on policy for
Open Access, inter alia, key approaches taken in the country, successes,
key achievements, Open Access journals, management and maintenance of
repositories. Presentation from the Participations (sit-in narration or 10
slides, maximum 12 minute presentation, you may review UNESCO GOAP and
provide any update that you may deem appropriate):
§ A brief overview of Open Access in your country (What is your
perspective on the current status of OA developments in your country? Who
are the major players (organizations and institutions)? What are the key
national projects and initiatives?)
§ What are the potential barriers for further adoption?
§ What are the desired developments?
§ How kind of collaborative and collective efforts could contribute
to advance OA in the region?
§ For countries where Open Access has had some success: what are
the enabling features in the country?
§ What have been the critical success factors?
§ What national organizations or funding agencies have mandates in
place requiring researchers to deposit their scholarship into an Open
Access repository?
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10:00 – 11:00****
Session III: Presentations on OA and GRULAC
Session Chair: Mr. Evert Hannam, Chairperson, Jamaican National Commission
for UNESCO
Rapporteur:
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Name of countries : Jamaica, Argentine, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, British
Virgin Islands****
11.00 -11.30:****
Coffee break
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Name of countries: Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador****
13:00- 14:15****
Lunch
14:15 – 17:30****
Session IV: Presentations on OA and GRULAC
Session Chair: Ms. Dominique Babini, Argentine
Rapporteur:
14:15-16:00****
Name of countries : El Salvador, Guyana, Grenada, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru***
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16.00 -16.30:****
Coffee break
16.30 -17.30:****
Name of countries: Suriname, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and
Grenadines, St. Martin, Uruguay, Venezuela
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*Day 3 (Thursday 7 March 2013): Group Work to develop Regional Strategy)*
10:00 – 11:45****
Session V: Group Discussion 1. Assessing level of Understanding of Open
Access and Open Access Policy ****
Discussion 1:00 hours: coffee time could be used for group discussion ****
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This session will provide an opportunity to the participants to make brief
intervention on situation, available mandates and/or policies and the
current status of Open Access in the region. The participants will be split
in 2-3 groups and will be requested to discuss the following issues,
primarily based on the country-level presentations, and report it back to
the plenary:****
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• What needs to be done to increase awareness about Open Access in
the region?
• What guideline should be made for the Governments and other
research funders on Open Access
• Form of Policy – Is it possible to make OA as a mandatory clause
for research funding?
• Scope of the policy – Is the OA understood uniformly? Is it
possible to declare everything open, if not, what should be included and
what should be allowed to remain restricted? What are target contents?****
Outcome: 1-2 page bulleted text summarizing the situation in the region****
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Session VI: Group Discussion 2. OA Implementing Open Access
Discussion 1:00 hours: coffee time could be used for group discussion. ****
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• Licensing
o What is the best licensing that can be utilized
o How to best comply with the policy on OA?
• Status of Open repositories in the region/country,
mechanism of their operation?
• Green or the Gold Form of Open Access?
• Cooling off period before the documents are made Open
Access
• Article processing charges
• Copyright
o Compliance and sanctions
• Capacity building needs
Outcome: 1-2 page bulleted text summarizing the situation in the region
13:00- 14:15****
Lunch
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Session VII: Group Discussion 3. *Collective Strategy for the future*
Discussion 1:00 hours: coffee time could be used for group discussion. ****
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• Regional Network
• Who are the major players (organizations and
institutions)? What are the key regional projects and initiatives?
• What are the potential barriers for further adoption?
• Which organization can provide a regional leadership?
• What kinds of collaborative and collective efforts
could contribute to advance OA in the region?
• Role for UNESCO in approaching OA policy
• List issues that a multilateral organization like
UNESCO can potentially address
Outcome: 1-2 page bulleted text summarizing the situation in the region
15:00-17:00****
The session will conclude with plenary presentation of the groups and
identification of a few people to draft regional understanding and
commitment for Open Access, including recommendations, which will be
summation of outcomes of all three session. In this session, participants
will have the opportunity to review the UNESCO OA policy template and
workout specific policy for their own country/institution and develop a
work-plan on how to implement the same with specific timeline.
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*Day 4 (Friday 8 March 2013): *
10:00 – 11:00****
Discussion on Consultation Recommendations
Collectively browse the set of agreement to finalize the final
recommendation (session to be held, if this task is left unfinished)
11.00 -11.30:****
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:15****
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Session VIII: ****
IFAP: Programme and Priorities: Mr. Eric Nurse, Vice Chair, IFAP ****
Approaching an Information Policy ****
Facilitated by Dr. Susana Finquelievich
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UNESCO’s standard-setting work is addressed primarily to Member States,
i.e. their governments. The IFAP Template fully endorses the
multi-stakeholder approach to the development of the Information Society,
however, and acknowledges that the role of other stakeholders (especially
entrepreneurs, network, service and content providers, but also, of course,
civil society and NGOs) is as (if not, in some cases, more) important as
that of governments. Nevertheless, this depends on the specific
circumstances, and also on the stage of the process of developing the
Information Society, in any particular country. The emphasis in this
Template is primarily on what governments and the civil service should do
and this was a deliberate choice, in keeping with the approach adopted in
the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, given that the document may
be most useful in countries where the role of government policy and of the
public sector is especially important.****
13:15- 14:15****
Lunch
16.00-17.00****
Concluding session with special note on the Role of Women in Building
Knowledge Societies: Commemorating International Women’s Day
Key-note Address: The Hon. Sen. Sandrea Falconer Minister for Information
Concluding Remarks: Dr. Arun Kashyap, UNCT Coordinator, Jamaica( TBC)
Vote of Thanks: Mr. Evert Hannam Chairperson, Jamaica National Commission
for UNESCO
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Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro aka Sala
P.O. Box 17862
Suva
Fiji
Twitter: @SalanietaT
Skype:Salanieta.Tamanikaiwaimaro
Tel: +679 3544828
Fiji Cell: +679 998 2851
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