Katharine Dunn is Scholarly Communications Librarian at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the premiere educational institute in the world. She works with Scholarly Communications and Collections Strategy department (SCCS) that aims to transform scholarly communications for the digital age with innovative and…
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Claire Redhead: The argument for open access to all scholarship has never been more relevant
Claire Redhead is one of the leading international open access advocators. She is heading Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) as its Executive Director. Prior to this, she was a Membership and Communications Manager at OASPA and worked for over…
Muthu Madhan: ‘One nation one subscription’ is an elusive goal
Muthu Madhan is a long-time crusader for open access (OA) to scholarly literature in India. He has been promoting OA through interoperable institutional repositories – the green route for OA. He has spoken about the importance of OA in different…
पीटर सुबेर: गैरसमज आणि अपरिचित असणे हे ओपन ॲक्सेसचे सगळ्यात मोठे अडसर आहेत
पीटर सुबेर हे ओपन ॲक्सेस (OA) चे जागतिक पातळीवर मान्यता प्राप्त तज्ज्ञ आहेत. ते प्रामुख्याने पाश्चिमात्य तत्त्वज्ञानाचा इतिहास, कायद्याचे तत्त्वज्ञान या विषयांचे विशेषज्ज्ञ आहेत. त्यांनी कायद्याचे शिक्षण घेतले आहे परंतु त्यांनी तो पेशा म्हणून स्वीकारलेला नाही. ते (Suber) हार्वर्ड विद्यापीठ…
Sanjaya Mishra: Educational institutions need to become a producer of content and not just consumer of content
Sanjaya Mishra is one of the leading scholars in open, distance and online Learning. He is Education Specialist at Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada. He has served Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), UNESCO, Paris and IGNOU’s Regional…
Ramesh C. Gaur: Provide access to plagiarism detection software to researchers to use it as a research assisting tool than a fault finding tool
Professor Ramesh C. Gaur is one of the globally renowned library and information professionals with nearly three decades of experience. Having served in prestigious organisations such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, CRRI-CSIR, RISDC, Management Development…
Jake Orlowitz: Wikipedia is actually driving people to scholarly literature and therefore it is a top 10 referrer to all scholarly articles online
Jake Orlowitz is a Wikipedian, blogger, entrepreneur, writer, speaker and an institution builder. He is the founder of The Wikipedia Library of Wikimedia Foundation which provides library and reference services to the editors and readers of Wikipedia. He recently left…
Peter Suber: The largest obstacles to open access are unfamiliarity and misunderstanding of open access itself
Peter Suber is an internationally acclaimed expert on open access to knowledge. He is specialised in the history of western philosophy and the philosophy of law and also a non-practicing lawyer. He works for the growth of open access to research,…
Jeffrey Beall: South Asia has a worldwide reputation for being a center of predatory publishing
Jeffrey Beall: South Asia has a worldwide reputation for being a center of predatory publishing