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由印度人Anup Kumar Das编著，联合国教科文组织UNESCO出版的关于开放存取（Open access）的专著《知识与信息的开放存取：学术文献与数字图书馆首倡-南亚背景》（博主拙译，请以原著为准）已经正式出版。兹提供书目信息、序言、目录如下。该书内容是关于开放存取的，其全文也是可以免费开放获取的。感兴趣的朋友可以免费下载全文。下载地址：http://openmed.nic.in/2789/.
Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives –The South Asian Scenario
Anup Kumar Das
Edited by: Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah
© UNESCO 2008
ISBN 978-81-89218-21-8
This publication may be reproduced in any media appropriately acknowledging UNESCO and the authors.
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Foreword
Universal access to information and knowledge lies UNESCO's overall mandate to promote the free flow of information by word and by image and thus to place information and knowledge at the doorsteps of communities. UNESCO strives to forge an enabling environment to facilitate and open up avenues for universal access to information and knowledge.
Open Access to information and knowledge is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital environment aimed at achievement of universal access to information and knowledge. While Open Access helps digital inclusion of citizens in developing countries by bringing within easy reach full-text contents of scholarly works, documentary heritage collections and development-related literature, the Digital Library remains a knowledge repository of such citizens, indigenous people, communities and institutions. Open Access to knowledge is a model adopted by many international and intergovernmental fora, such as the World Summit on the information Society (WSIS), for disseminating full-text contents to online communities.
The South Asia sub-region is now in the forefront of the Open Access movement within developing countries in the world, with
This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported international conferences and workshops including the 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001, Bangalore); the International Conferences on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004 & ICDL2006, New Delhi); and the International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library software (2006, Kozhikode), where many information professionals of this sub-region demonstrated their Digital Library and Open Access Initiatives. It discusses successful activities in the
Jocelyne Josiah
Adviser in communication and information for Asia
UNESCO
Contents
Introduction 1
Digital Library Initiatives 7
Open Courseware Initiatives 43
Open Access Journals 56
Metadata Harvesting Services 69
National-Level Open Access Repositories 83
Institutional Repositories 96
Conclusion 128
References 129
Annexure 130
Book Chapters Index 133
Other Useful Open Access Resources and Knowledge Portals 136
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