2012/11/01: Information for Development, a presentation by Sanjaya Mishra at the national Seminar on Knowledge Sharing on Sustainable Development: Role of Libraries organized by the Jawaharlal Nehru University and UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan at New Delhi

1. Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia
Information for
Sustainable Development
Sanjaya Mishra

2. Sustainable Development
… development that
meets the needs of the
present without
compromising the
ability of future
generations to meet
their own needs
- World Commission on Environment
and Development, 1987

3. Education for Sustainable
Development
 to integrate sustainable
science and education;
 to strengthen co-
ordination and
collaboration between
different levels of
education for SD; and
 to mitigate information
and knowledge gaps
between different parts
of the world.

4. The Future We Want
 to improve the capacity of our education
systems to prepare people to pursue
sustainable development
 enhance teacher training, develop
sustainability curricula, develop training
programmes
 prepare students for careers in fields related
to sustainability
 use of information and communications
technologies to enhance learning outcomes.

5. Indian Initiatives on ESD
 MHRD/National Coordination
Committee
 Areas:
Infrastructure, Education, Hea
lth, Environment, Agriculture,
Natural Disaster, Urban
development, Poverty/
employment
 Centre for Environment
Education

6. ESD: Problems
 Exponential growth
of knowledge
 Business of
knowledge and value
creation
 Internet enabled
infrastructure
 Access to technology
 Access to information

7. Knowledge Dynamics
Knowledge
CARRIERS &
FORMATS
Information
Data
We LEARN from..
RESEARCH &
CREATIVITY
LEARNING

8. Scholarly Communication
• High cost of Journal
subscription
• Lack of transparency in
Big Deals
• Alternative ways to
access information

9. Open Access
Open Access is the provision of
free access to peer-
reviewed, scholarly and
research information to all. It
envisages that the rights
holder grants worldwide
irrevocable right of access to
copy, use, distribute, transmit,
and make derivative works in
any format for any lawful
activities with proper
attribution to the original
author.

10. Foundations of Open Access
 Freedom (as in free
of cost and free
speech)
 Flexibility ( choice of
licensing
mechanisms)
 Fairness ( to
authors, funding
bodies and society)

11. Philosophy of Open Access
Knowledge is Free and should be shared amongst
those who need it
Access to past knowledge is essential to create new
knowledge
Everyone has a right to knowledge, and authors
exercise their rights to share
Open Access is not contrary to Copyright
No individual should be discriminated due to
various disadvantages
Foster development of knowledge societies

12. Open Access: 4Dimensions
Free
Online
Open Permanent

13. Types of Open Access: A Matrix

14. Growth of Open Access
 Gold open Access (8115 OA journals in DOAJ)
 Green Open Access (2211 repositories)
 Platinum Open Access (Social networking approach)
– Mendeley, Research Gate, Academia.edu etc.
 67% of Journals permit some form of self-archiving

15. Open Access Iniitiatives
Directory of Open Access Journals
(http://www.doaj.org)
Directory of Open Access Books
(http://www.doabooks.org/doab)
Global Open Access Portal
(http://www.unesco.org/ci/goap)
Open Access Stories (http://www.oastories.org/)
Open Access Week
(http://www.openaccessweek.org/)
Directory of Open Access Repositories
(http://www.opendoar.org/)
Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory
Archiving Policies (http://roarmap.eprints.org/)

16. Information Sources on SD
 UN: Division of Sustainable Development
(http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_40.shtml)
 Rio+20 (http://www.uncsd2012.org/)
 IISD: SD-Cite (http://sd-cite.iisd.org/)
 FAO: GIS in SD (http://www.fao.org/sd/EIdirect/gis/EIgis000.htm)
 Ipl2 (http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48534)
 World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/sd.html)

17. What Libraries can do for
Sustainable Development?
• Promote OA journals and repositories
• Ask our institutions to create OA repositories
• Publish in OA journals
• Submit our papers to OA repositories, especially
institutional repositories (if your institution does not
have a repository, you can still submit at
• Encourage institutions to adopt OA policies
• Encourage setting up of OA funds
• Promote quality of OA journals

18. THANK YOU