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    Open Access Explained

    CGIAR Research Program on Drylands Systems, 2015
    This document intends to give scientists, who conduct research under the framework of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems, a snapshot on the benefits of using Open Access mechanisms to publish their research outputs and results.
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    Battle for open: how openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory

    2014
    With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. This marks a moment of victory for the open education movement, but at the same time the real battle for the direction of openness begins.
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    An evaluation of private foundation copyright licensing policies, practices and opportunities

    Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, 2009
    This document examines the extent to which charitable foundations are aware of and have begun to use open licenses such as Creative Commons or the GPL.  It highlights examples where foundations have begun to take advantage of new licensing models for materials and resources produced by their own staff, their consultants and their grantees.
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    Knowledge translation toolkit: a resource for researchers

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    Knowledge Translation (KT) is the middle, meeting ground between two fundamentally different processes: those of research and those of action. This toolkit is offered primarily to researchers working on health policy and systems issues in low and middle income countries, but it will be of interest to many other audiences as well.
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    Open access publishing: a developing country view

    First Monday (USA), 2006
    This paper presents the experience with open access (OA) publishing by researchers in an academic research institution, the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad and Tobago. It describes the two parallel but complimentary paths for authors to enable open access: publishing in open access journals and/or self–archiving.
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    Open access archiving: the fast track to building research capacity in developing countries

    SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network, 2005
    Scientific progress in developing and emerging countries is greatly hampered by their inability to afford essential journals. At the same time, research generated in these regions is 'missing' to the international knowledge base because of financial restrictions affecting its publication and distribution.
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    Open Access: scientific publishing and the developing world

    First Author, 2006
    Advances in science, medicine, technology and agriculture have the potential to contribute to the reduction of disease and poverty worldwide. Communications and information technology (ICT) has enabled collaboration and dissemination of scientific research on a global scale. However, scientists in the developing world are severely restricted in their access to current research.
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    Achieving research impact for development: a critique of research dissemination policy in South Africa, with recommendations for policy reform

    Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, 2007
    Publishing scholarly output in Africa is hindered by a lack of resources, arising from unwillingness on the part of both government and higher education institutions to fund research publication – or even to regard scholarly publication as something which ought to be funded.
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    Strategies for open and permanent access to scientific information in Latin America: focus on health and environmental information for sustainable development

    The Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA), 2007
    This is the report a workshop looking at strategies for open and permanent access to scientific information in Latin America.
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    Developing Open Access Journals: a practical guide

    Developing Open Access Journals, 2008
    Open Access (OA) journals are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in creating such journals lack. This guide is an abridged version of the original book.

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