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Presentation Overview

The talk retraced the current developments in Open Access by focusing on the two complimentary approaches - self archiving and Open Access publishing. The talk retraced the current developments in Open Access by focusing on the two complimentary approaches - self archiving and Open Access publishing. Regarding the self archiving route, the need to engage the researchers to increase repository deposits, was emphasized. Two use cases of repository deposit strategies were mentioned, these are i) the Harvard University experience , and ii) the Université de Liège experience ( commonly referred to as the Liege model). Thereafter, recent developments regarding central and thematic repositories were extensively reviewed. Similarly, with regards to Open Publishing, after discussing various models available and developments, two examples from South America were mentioned as models for the 'Gold route' , these are SciELO and Redalyc.

About Jean-Claude Guedon

Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Montréal. Involved in the Open Access movement from the early 90's and one of the original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002, as well as of BOAI10 in 2012. Helped the OA movement through participation in the programme committee of the Open Society Foundations  (2002-6) and through the Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL 2003-7). Presently, he is a Trustee of the Nexa Centre in Turin's Politecnico. Regularly writes and lectures on OA matters.>

URL for more info: http://aims.fao.org/oa-week-2012