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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WDR 2010 PAGE (SCROLL DOWN)

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WDR 2010 PAGE (STATISTICS)

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SITE STATISTICS

The top 50 most popular publications, based on the number and

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JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED EXTERNALLY

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external publications –

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URLs”

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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

the left navigation

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

jdebuerba@worldbank.org