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- ItemRestrictedCentering social justice in scholarly commuication to advance research as a public good: diamond open access as an integral part of effective research system(2024) Tveit, Mari SunliThe presentation explores diamond open access through the lens of social justice and focuses on a publishing system that is free from both conscious and unconscious biases. The session positions diamond open access as an integral part of effective research system.
- ItemOpen AccessFrom consensus to tranformations: contributions to an open responsible and inclusive scientific and academic assessment(2024) Naidorf, JudithThis is a presentation on an open responsible and inclusive scientific and academic assessment.
- ItemOpen AccessHow percived value of scholaly output drives researchers behaviour in publishing(2024) Moshabela, MosaThe session focused on the importance of what authors as producers of knowledge value in the research ecosystem. The session also deliberates on how ranking and promotion shape researchers' behaviour.
- ItemOpen AccessHow the reform of research assessment supports diamond open access(2024) Pölönen, JanneThis presentation explains the role of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). It also points out disadvantages in research assessment related to diamond open access journals, and explains what difference COAR aspires to make.
- ItemOpen AccessLibrary publishing for an inclusive education(Routledge, 2020) Raju, Reggie; Claassen, Jill; Nyahodza, Lena; Dali, Keren; Caidi, NadiaHigher education, in the main, should be structured such that it addresses the issue of diversity and rejects all forms of hegemony, stereotypes and biases: both as a public and a common good it must provide equal opportunity for as many as possible in the interest of a more rights-based, egalitarian, and cohesive society. However, the cost of scholarly literature has spiralled out of control, making higher education unaffordable. In a post-colonial era, it is imperative that higher education be relevant and decolonised. Unfortunately, the quest for maximizing profits by large publishing houses have not supported the goal of an affordable and decolonised education. Academic libraries are attempting to bridge this divide by providing an open access and social justice driven ‘library as a publisher’ service. This service upholds the principles of inclusivity and diversity. Library publishing provides opportunity for an inclusive, affordable and decolonised higher education.
- ItemOpen AccessOpen Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG(IFLA, 2017-07-17) Raju, ReggieThe high levels of poverty and poor access to quality education, among a myriad of other challenges, have contributed to economic and social exclusion in Africa. These exclusions must be viewed against the backdrop of the emergence of a global knowledge-based society in which the production and dissemination of knowledge has become critical for meeting social and economic needs. Education, in the view of Breidlid (2009), is critical for poverty alleviation and economic and social inclusion. Education is central to promoting sustainable development. It is therefore essential to mobilize necessary resources, including openness resources to steer the global south towards economic and social inclusion. This paper will discuss the exploration of a ‘knowledge system’ that facilitates the networking of open educational resources (OERs) to strengthen the educational system in Africa. The bringing together of contributors who use appropriate technology for innovation will enhance the educational process which will in turn advance learning for growth and development. Key to the effective contribution of knowledge systems to SDGs is information and communication technologies (ICTs). Libraries have responded positively to the potential of ICTs and have recently been utilising that potential to offer publishing services using Open Source Systems (OSS) such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), DSpace, and the Open Monograph Press (OMP). These open source systems, which are a significant component of the openness movement, are exploited to deliver open content which includes open access publishing and sharing of scholarly content. The bias in this paper is the publishing of open educational resources for the development of education in the global south. An educated and informed society will contribute to the broadening of access to wealth for social justice, growth and development.
- ItemRestrictedResearch assessment within the Global Open Access Framework(2024) Cetto, Ana MaríaThis presentation presents issues related to deep asymmetries that persist because the contributions to science from the so-called South, mostly former colonies, are considered of low value and of little interest in the market. The products of our science [from the South] are largely ignored by practitioners abroad, and they are rarely used in applications of economic value in our own [global south] countries.
- ItemOpen AccessThe role of Open Data as a social justice entity(2018) Nyahodza, LenaThis conference paper presents the role that open data is playing in creating open maps to rescue girls that are schedules for female gender mutilation (FGM), thus giving hope to a girl child in Tanzania. Literature indicates that there have been reports of young girls losing lives during or becoming disabled after the FGM procedures in many occasions; and the creation of open maps through the use of open data has made it possible to locate girls that need rescue from scheduled procedures. FGM practice aims to ensure premarital virginity and marital fidelity, as FGM is believed to reduce a woman's libido, which is also believed to help women resist extramarital sexual acts. FGM is on its own a social injustice practice that is intended to glorify men at the expense of the health and lives of the girl children. Open data, has therefore, presented an opportunity to save girls from the harmful FGM practice.
- ItemRestrictedTowards equitable open access: Qatar's perspective(University of Cape Town, 2024) Aklhaja, AlwaleedThis presentation deliberates on the objectives of the Qatar National Library's open access program.
- ItemOpen AccessWhat the Libraries can do for Postgraduates(2021) UCT Postgraduate OfficeThis is a video prepared in 2021 for library services support for the University of Cape Town postgraduate students.