UNESCO launches open access curriculum for young and early career researchers

"UNESCO, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), has launched a set of open access (OA) Curricula and self-directional learning (SDL) modules for researchers1 in March 2015. Young and early-career researchers affiliated to different academic and research institutions are the main target audience of this distinct OA curriculum. The curriculum is also aimed at capacity building, awareness raising and sensitization of the new global citizens, i.e. budding academic researchers who will be absorbed into higher educational institutions and research laboratories in near future. The curriculum titled ‘Open access for researchers’ is an elaborate exploration of the scholarly communications processes, concepts of openness and open access, intellectual property rights and research evaluation metrics ..."