WORLD BANK OPEN ACCESS POLICY AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY
WELCOME
What is Open Access?
Have you heard of the Bank’s Open Access Policy?
Have you heard of or used the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)?
OVERVIEW OF WORLD BANK’S OPEN DEVELOPMENT
Open Data (April 2010)
Access to Information Policy (July 2010)
Open Solutions, Open Tools (September 2010)
Open Access Policy to Research, Knowledge (July 2012)
DEFINITION OF OPEN ACCESS
Refers to Research and Knowledge
Open Access is: Online Free to access Free of most restrictions on re-use
Open Access ≠ Public Domain
OPEN ACCESS POLICY AT-A-GLANCE
Open Access Policy
Creative Commons
Open Knowledge Repository
WORLD BANK OPEN ACCESS POLICY
WORLD BANK OPEN ACCESS POLICY
Scope: Applies to manuscripts and accompanying primary
data sets published by the Bank
Requirements: For works published by the Bank
Available immediately in OKR Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
For works by Bank staff published externally Working paper available immediately in OKR under CC
BY Final, peer-reviewed manuscript, available in OKR after
Publisher's embargo under CC BY NC ND (unless more liberal license is accepted by Publisher)
WHY AN OPEN ACCESS POLICY?
To provide greater access to Bank research and knowledge outputs
To encourage innovation allowing use and re-use of Bank content
To join a growing Open Access community (e.g., governments, universities, and other institutions)
To align Bank’s Publishing with Bank’s Open Development Agenda
THE WORLD BANK’S INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
WHAT IS THE OKR?
New 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 of content
Uses Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) for Bank published content → supports use, re-use and building-on Bank’s work
LIVE DEMO
http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
OKR HOME PAGE
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WDR 2010 PAGE
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SITE STATISTICS
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JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED EXTERNALLY
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external publications –
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external publications –
the PDF can be found on the publisher’s page under “Associated
URLs”
TERMS OF USE
The OKR Terms of Use can be accessed from
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under “Other”
ANATOMY OF ‘OUR’ CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
Aligned with the spirit and intent of the Bank’s Open Agenda
Allows reuse of content by third parties in creative ways
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Human Readable
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SUMMARY
WHAT IS NEW?1. Ease of Access:
OKR is interoperable with major repositories (e.g., RePEc, Google Scholar) AND local institutional repositories
Adherence to Open Access standards (Dublin Core metadata and OAI-PMH)
Optimized for low band-width
2. Ease of Use: Several browse options, advanced search, most viewed
content, citation information, permanent links... Built on Dspace OA platform
3. Ease of Reuse: CC BY copyright license
4. New Content: Content published by external Publishers
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Use it and help us spread the word Make your institutional repository (if
available) interoperable with the Bank’s OKR
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WHO TO CONTACT
THANK YOU&
QUESTIONS
Jose de Buerba
Sr. Publishing Officer