OPEN access activists will receive a welcome boost in their campaign next month following a decision by the World Bank to open up its data and research.
The new policy comes into force on 1 July and will see the bank embrace an open access policy for all its research outputs and knowledge products. The World Bank has said it is committed to making knowledge freely available online and the new policy will be rolled out fully over the next 12 months.
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said: ‘Knowledge is power. Making our knowledge widely and readily available will empower others to come up with solutions to the world’s toughest problems. ‘Our open access policy is the natural evolution for a World bank that is opening up more and more.’
The policy will apply to research carried out by World Bank employees and any projects funded by the bank. External research funded by trusts that are administered by the bank will be governed by the rules of the trusts.
The move formalises arrangements to make research and knowledge freely available online and will allow anyone to use and distribute knowledge products and research findings for both commercial and non-commercial use.
The bank’s two journals – World Bank Research Observer (WBRO) and World Bank Economic Review (WBER) – which are published by Oxford University Press will also be covered by the new policy.
A new open access portal has been created online to enable all published material to be found in one place, making search much easier than it has been in the past. Known as the Open Knowledge Repository the portal already features more than 2,000 works from the last three years and will be regularly updated.
Caroline Anstey, World Bank Man aging Director, said: ‘Anyone with internet access will have much greater access to the World Bank’s knowledge. And for those without internet access, there is now unlimited potential for intermediaries to reuse and repurpose our content for new languages, platforms and media, further democratising development by getting information into the hands of all those who may benefi t from it.’
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
By Annie Mauger, CILIPUPDATE, June 2012
The new policy comes into force on 1 July and will see the bank embrace an open access policy for all its research outputs and knowledge products. The World Bank has said it is committed to making knowledge freely available online and the new policy will be rolled out fully over the next 12 months.
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said: ‘Knowledge is power. Making our knowledge widely and readily available will empower others to come up with solutions to the world’s toughest problems. ‘Our open access policy is the natural evolution for a World bank that is opening up more and more.’
The policy will apply to research carried out by World Bank employees and any projects funded by the bank. External research funded by trusts that are administered by the bank will be governed by the rules of the trusts.
The move formalises arrangements to make research and knowledge freely available online and will allow anyone to use and distribute knowledge products and research findings for both commercial and non-commercial use.
The bank’s two journals – World Bank Research Observer (WBRO) and World Bank Economic Review (WBER) – which are published by Oxford University Press will also be covered by the new policy.
A new open access portal has been created online to enable all published material to be found in one place, making search much easier than it has been in the past. Known as the Open Knowledge Repository the portal already features more than 2,000 works from the last three years and will be regularly updated.
Caroline Anstey, World Bank Man aging Director, said: ‘Anyone with internet access will have much greater access to the World Bank’s knowledge. And for those without internet access, there is now unlimited potential for intermediaries to reuse and repurpose our content for new languages, platforms and media, further democratising development by getting information into the hands of all those who may benefi t from it.’
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
By Annie Mauger, CILIPUPDATE, June 2012
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