Domain
The democratization of knowledge boosts innovative solutions to development challenges.
Capability descriptors. Academic Librarians can...
- Explain the concept of openness and knowledge as a public good.
- Propagate the principles of Open Science, open data, Open access, Open Education, Open knowledge and implications for knowledge creation, scholarly communication, storage, dissemination and libraries
- Explain the characteristics and advantages of open knowledge across different disciplines in order to support decision-making for adoption
- Create clear pathways for library users to understand how to adopt Open science, open licensing, open data, open access, open educational resources, and other open knowledge practices
- Find, use and contribute to repositories of open resources
- Define indicators and keep track of progress for awareness, adoption and use of open knowledge practices within the institution
- Advocate and make inputs into institutional policies that support Open knowledge