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Hard Talk: Interrogating Open Access

Open Access - making research knowledge freely available under license, usually via the Internet - presents opportunities for the use and dissemination of development research for those with least access at present. It also poses risks including possible increased costs for the author, a decline in perceived quality control and potential damage to the sustainability of "traditional" research publishing.

Open Access offers specific advantages to users in the South and sets challenges for stakeholders in the North: should EADI research institutes take the lead and promote Open Access among their researchers? Should the leading Development Research Journals set the example and move from subscription based to open access?

During this mini-symposium - which is open to all participants - the concept and the practicalities of Open Access will be interrogated. A panel of stakeholders with different perspectives will be interviewed - including an institute director, a researcher, a librarian and a representative from a Southern research organization. The panel will include advocates and skeptics and the aim is to cut through the jargon to find out what Open Access really has to offer the EADI community.

Dr. Leo Waaijers will start by introducing Open Access and presenting his view. Waaijers won the 2008 SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications. The past four years Waaijers has been an advocate for open access to research results via the Internet for SURF, the collaborative organisation for higher education institutions and research institutes aimed at breakthrough innovations in ICT.

Chair:

Lawrence Haddad
Director
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex

Speakers:

Leo Waaijers
Manager of the SURF Platform ICT and Research
The Netherlands

Michel Wesseling
Librarian
Institute of Social Studies
Den Haag
The Netherlands

Jacques Charmes
Institut de Recherche pour le D�veloppement
Paris
France

Researcher and Southern representative to be confirmed

Organizer:

EADI Information Management Working Group

Mini Symposium