OVERVIEW OF THE NEW OPEN ACCESS POLICY AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

Jose de Buerba

Sr. Publishing Officer

CommNet Learning Session

March 28, 2012

Thought the World Bank Couldn't Get any More Open?

… think again

Hello Open Access!Hello OKR!

OPEN DEVELOPMENT

Open Data (April 2010)

Access to Information Policy (July 2010)

Open Solutions/Tools (September 2010)

Open Access Policy to Research, Knowledge (July 2012)

KEY DATES

March 29 Knowledge and Learning Councilapproves Open Access Policy

w/o April 9 Open Access Policy announcement Open Knowledge Repository launch

May (TBD) Open Access Event

July 1 Open Access Policy goes into effect

Open Access Policy

Creative Commons

Open Knowledge Repository

NEW WORLD BANK OPEN ACCESS POLICY

WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS?

Origins of the Open Access movement 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative (Open Society

Inst.) 2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge

in the Sciences and Humanities

Open Access is: Online Free to access Free of most restrictions on re-use

Open Access ≠ Public Domain

OPEN ACCESS POLICY - SCOPE

Applies to manuscripts and all accompanying primary data sets: (a) that result from research, analysis, economic and

sector work, or development practice; (b) that have undergone peer review or have been

otherwise vetted and approved for release to the public; and

(c) for which approval for release is given on or after July 1, 2012.

Policy also applies to external research funded by the Bank

OPEN ACCESS POLICY - REQUIREMENTS

For work published by the World Bank Deposit on OKR final manuscripts & metadata Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

For work by Bank staff published externally Deposit on OKR final manuscripts & metadata Internal availability immediate External availability after Publisher's embargo CC Attribution – Non-Commercial – No-Derivatives

(CC BY NC ND)

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

2. Change Copyright Practice

For content owned and published by the Bank

For content owned by theBank but published externally

CHANGE COPYRIGHT PRACTICEFROM © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO CREATIVE COMMONS

THE ADVANTAGES OF

Aligned with the spirit and intent of the Open Agenda

Reuse of content by third parties in creative ways Use, re-use, distribute and build-on the Bank’s work Text mining for innovative decision and/or research

tools Educator can compile content (e.g., chapters from

different books) and translate for localized course pack

The Bank positioned at forefront of Open Access

ANATOMY OF CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

Machine Readable

Human Readable

Legal Code

OPENKNOWLEDGE.WORLDBANK.ORG

NEW WORLD BANK’S INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

WHAT IS THE OKR?

Official open access repository for Bank research outputs and knowledge products

Collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves Bank’s intellectual output

Interoperable with other repositories; supports optimal discoverability and re-usability of content Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata

Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

BENEFITS OF THE OKR

Research and knowledge products only Interoperability CC BY for most content Citation information and permanent URI Journals articles

Links to version of record Full text (post publisher’s embargo) Working paper version (no embargo)

Chapters/books published externally (post-embargo) Links to micro-datasets (coming soon) Usage stats:

At item level Most viewed

Author’s tools (e.g., profiles, alerts…)

OKR CONTENT ON LAUNCH (APRIL 4)

World Bank published books (last 3 yrs.) All WDRs since 1978 PRWPs (last 3 yrs.) ESWs from (last 3 yrs.) Journal articles (2007-2010):

World Bank Economic Review (WBER) World Bank Research Observer (WBRO) Development Outreach

Content in languages other than English Annual Reports and IEG studies

TOTAL ≈ 2,100 WORKS TBD: Links to journal articles (some 2,000)

OKR CONTENT – COMING SOON

Content published prior to 2009

WBER and WBRO articles prior to 2007

Bank-authored content published by third-party publishers (journal articles, books and chapters)

Links to datasets associated with a specific work

Other knowledge products published by the Bank

OKR - DEMO

WHY?WHAT’S NEW?WHO BENEFITS?

WHY AN OPEN ACCESS POLICY?

Align with Bank’s Open Development Agenda Provide greater access to research and

knowledge outputs Encourage innovation allowing use and re-use

of Bank content Join a growing Open Access community (e.g.,

governments, universities, and other institutions)

The Bank will be the first IGO to implement an Open Access policy and adopt CC licenses

WHAT IS NEW?

Ease of access: OKR will be interoperable with other major

repositories such as RePEc, SSRN, Economist Online, or Google Scholar.

Ease of use and reuse: CC BY copyright license

New content: Content published by third parties

New features: Several browse options, advanced search, most

viewed content, citation information, permanent links, link to articles published outside, links to datasets...

WHO BENEFITS?

Externally: Researchers and students working on development

solutions Research center or policy think tank in Part 2

countries Policy makers in client countries

Internally: Authors of books, papers, book chapters… Communication staff in country offices Operations staff through greater ESW dissemination

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Help us spread the word Academics Policy makers Libraries, think tanks, research centers… Development practitioners

Communicate with staff in country offices

Particularly those that publish ESW

Give us feedback!

THANK YOU&

QUESTIONS

Contact Information:

Jose de Buerba

Sr. Publishing Officer

jdebuerba@worldbank.org