UNESCO published Policy Guidelines for the development and promotion of Open Accessto demystify the concept of Open Access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Dr. Alma Swan, Director of Key Perspectives Ltd (United Kingdom), wrote the publication. She is a leading expert in scholarly communication and Open Access.

Enabling policy environment for OA

The overall objective of this publication is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is a priority.

The Policy Guidelines will be useful to beginners as well as experts in the world of Open Access, and will assist the decision-makers, administrators and research managers to focus on OA policy development.