WSIS Knowledge Communities: Discussion on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes required by Librarians for Open Access | Open Access India

"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 1st 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 locale repositories. Sometime back we did a Delphy study with select experts, which revealed the following as key areas for the librarians to study ..."