Open Access to Knowledge and Information
Book: Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario. by Anup Kumar Das and edited by Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah supported by UNESCO.
For downloading the book: http://wiki.web2fordev.net/images/2/28/Open_Access_Book.pdf
Description
"Open Access to information and knowledge is an innovative mode of scholarly communication within the digital environment aimed at achievement of universal access to information and knowledge. While Open Access helps digital inclusion of citizens in developing countries by bringing within easy reach full-text contents of scholarly works, documentary heritage collections and development-related literature, the Digital Library remains a knowledge repository of such citizens, indigenous people, communities and institutions.
A new book on 'Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives - the South Asian Scenario' by Anup Kumar Das and edited by Bimal Kanti Sen and Jocelyne Josiah supported by UNESCO, illustrate successful digital library and open access initiatives in the South Asia sub-region that are available in the forms of open courseware, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, national-level open access repositories and institutional repositories. It may be considered an authoritative Source-book on Open Access development in this sub-region." (http://www.scidev.net/en/announcements/new-book-open-access-to-knowledge-and-information-.html)