The Library of the 21st century, through its online repository, is transforming the role of academic publishing. Enabling access is what librarians do. | Open Access Button blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-08

Summary:

"Lecturer Ernesto Priego, part of the team at City University London’s Library and Information Science Course, was thankfully able to chat with us after a summer criss-crossing the globe to speak at conferences. This interview was very special, as Ernesto is constantly tweeting and blogging about the disparity in access to information between the global north and south. His work in his birthplace, Mexico, and more recently with Scholar Africa, are an inspiration to everyone here at Open Access Button, and we hope in sharing his experiences-we can motivate many of you to get more involved in the Open Access movement. We were able to catch up with him in-between trips to Colombia and Mexico to ask him how he became involved in Open Access and why librarianship matters in this movement. We began by asking how it all began, how Ernesto first became involved with the Open Access movement ..."

Link:

http://blog.openaccessbutton.org/2014/09/08/the-library-of-the-21st-century-through-its-online-repository-is-transforming-the-role-of-academic-publishing-enabling-access-is-what-librarians-do/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.advocacy oa.south oa.interviews oa.people

Date tagged:

09/08/2014, 14:32

Date published:

09/08/2014, 10:32