Open Access Asia

[InquisitiveVi]

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At a glance

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• Submission Name: Open Access Asia
• Contact Lead: @VrushaliD123
• External Site Link (optional - primarily for projects): Coming soon (Help wanted from Webpage designers).
• Region: #Asia
• Issue Area: #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenResearch #OpenEducation
• Issue Type: Project
• Types of Support Needed: _#Advocacy_and_Policy, #Coding, #CommunityGrassrootsOrganizing, #Fundraising, #Research

Description

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Open Access Asia is a regional community of enthusiasts advocating for Open Access, Open Research Data, Open Education aimed at increasing public engagement in scholarship. This project was born at OpenCon 2017, to create a platform of resources for sharing, learning and collaborating entities around best open practice across Asia.

                OPEN ACCESS ASIA 

This project was born at OpenCon 2017 after regional workshop. Members: Aliya Ibraimova, Kyrgyzstan Linda Lew, China Vrushali Dandawate, India Kanok Monirul Islam, Bangladesh Vinodh Ilangovan, India

Objectives- 1 To make a open platform for all OA Advocates in Asia 2 To hold workshop/ conferences/ seminars in all Asian Country by rotations helping effect culture change across institutions. 3 Networks Sharing for OA Advocate in all Asian Countries through bulletin, write ups
4 This will be a platform for advocating Open Access and sharing success stories of OA movement in world and Asia 5 It invites everyone who is involved and interested in OA movement open to discuss and raise issues related to Open Access in general and specific to Asia 6 Collaborate with OCS Network and leverage with other such networks for information exchange 7 This team will influence policy makers, research workers, researchers, scholarly societies for their research and move institutions towards adopting open access policy across Asia.

Future Goals 1 Start blog post and podcast on Open Access (denounce journals as the primary source of scholarship) 2 To provide various grants to support people do implement open in their projects 3 Collaborate with various organizations (potentially Wikimedia foundation) and advance knowledge.

(Discussion with Osman Aldirdiri on including middle east) https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/66

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Website developers can help us launch a webpage for Open Access Asia.
OA Advocates and enthusiasts from Asia, please join us grow and advance open! Please update your contact details in this Google-doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u1y9XxKYZiumuRIG1upsyM9pYwQ5CowaXmAgGiKfUxk/edit

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[VrushaliD123]

66 All Aisa OA Advocates support for this project

[gutam2000]

Good initiative.... We need to work for OA more in this region. We may merge the SAARC OA initiative with this and take forward along with Asian OA of COAR.

[kshitizkhanal7]

Thanks for starting. Let's start by creating a strategy document. We will have something more to talk (and do) during the Asia Regional Meeting in December in Kathmandu.

[kshitizkhanal7]

I will start working on the document linked above.

[gutam2000]

Please see this link https://github.com/gutam2000/oapolicy and add it into the project.

[kshitizkhanal7]

Great, Sridhar! Can you make an separate organizations on Github for OA Asia and OA SAARC? It will be more logical to make repos for strategy documents in those organizations than in Nepal. I can also do it if you want.

[gutam2000]

@kshitizkhanal7 I am not well versed with github. if you can make it separate for OA Asia and OA SAARC,, it would be great.

[kshitizkhanal7]

@gutam2000 I have created the organizations and gave you full admin privileges. Please add more members. I will start repos for foundation/strategy docs.

[InquisitiveVi]

https://github.com/sparcopen/doathon/issues/71 Policy draft of OA India. Comment from @Daniel-Mietchen on additional considerations.

[kshitizkhanal7]

@InquisitiveVi thanks for the reference. I have added those comments to the doc we are working on. We need to work on the structure of the document. Add your input and invite more people to OA Asia and OA SAARC github organizations.

[InquisitiveVi]

Just a thought on changing the name: will "OOO Asia" be more suitable than OA Asia. h/t OOO Canada (Open Access, Open Data, Open Education) http://www.ooocanada.ca/

[InquisitiveVi]

Outcome of this do-a-thon: Email account was created open.asia.org@gmail.com Facebook group was created https://www.facebook.com/groups/1166441533488173/ (@VrushaliD123 Please invite/add members there). Twitter: @Open_Asia_Org

To do: Create group on other social media platforms to reach open advocates from regions Facebook/Twitter is not accessible (tagging @lindadalew) Logo design Presentation for http://arm.oknp.org/ by @VrushaliD123 @lindadalew Discuss with @nshockey and Roshan Karn on SPARC Asia

[gutam2000]

+1 for "OOO Asia"

[kshitizkhanal7]

OOO Asia is also good. Great work creating the Facebook group and email, @InquisitiveVi