IFLA at OpenCon 2017 « Library Policy and Advocacy Blog

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Summary:

"IFLA participated at OpenCon 2017 late last year, a key event in the open access, open education and open data movement. With over 10,000 applications received for the 2017 conference, IFLA was one of the lucky ones to be selected....

Robin Champieux described her efforts and strategies to build an “open access university”, to encourage researchers to participate in the OA movement. She also insisted on the need to be critical with open access itself; because we tend to think that it is inherently good, we risk not questioning the fairness of some of its developments.

How can we ensure OA doesn’t just replicate the dominance of the richer countries? Denisse Albornoz underlined that, “the system is set up in such a way that we tend to hear a lot more about what is produced and what is happening in the global north and not necessarily about what is happening in the rest of the world”. Siko Bouterse also raised the very important question of “whose knowledge is still missing in our open projects”...."

Link:

http://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2018/01/18/ifla-at-opencon-2017/

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oa.new oa.opencon oa.ifla oa.librarians oa.libraries oa.lis oa.events oa.advocacy

Date tagged:

01/28/2018, 12:55

Date published:

01/28/2018, 07:58