Open Knowledge Repository
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The Open Knowledge Repository is the official open-access repository of the World Bank, which features research content about development.[1] It was launched in 2012,[1] alongside the organization's Open Access Policy, which made the World Bank the first international organization to completely embrace open access.[2] The repository collects the intellectual output of the World Bank in digital form, disseminates it, and preserves it long-term.[2][3]
The Open Knowledge Repository features books, reports, serials, technical papers, and working papers and is regularly updated.[4] Among its contents are World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies, books published by the World Bank Group, World Development Reports, and articles published in the journals World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer.[1][3][4] It additionally includes serial publications, working papers, and work studies.[2] The Open Knowledge Repository also receives articles by World Bank researchers published by third-party publishers as part of the World Bank's Open Access Policy, which allows such articles to be embargoed but discourages publishers from the practice.[5]
The goal of the repository is "to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to turn [World] Bank knowledge into solutions to development problems that will help improve the lives of poor people around the world".[5] It is designed to give a wide variety of users access to the content, with users ranging widely and including governments, civil society organizations, students, and the general public.[6]
It is built on the open-source platform DSpace. It complies with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards and its metadata is exposed by the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).[1][2][6] Among the repository's features are publicly available usage statistics, custom OAI metadata fields, author profiles, citation information for every work, and links to citations on Google Scholar.[2]
Most content is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.[1] Its user interface is available English, French, and Spanish.[1][6] Between its launch in 2012 and August 2013, there were over 1.8 million downloads from the Open Knowledge Repository, 45% of which were from developing countries. At the time, China, India, and Vietnam were three of the top five countries by number of downloads, while 12 of the top 20 countries by downloads were developing countries. In August 2013, the repository held over 12,000 publications, mostly in English.[2]
The Open Knowledge Repository was named one of the Best Free Reference Web Sites for 2013 by the American Library Association and honored as a SPARC Innovator by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "About The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository". World Bank Group. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank)". Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository". World Bank Group. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
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Potential references
- http://aims.fao.org/in-action/interviews/overview-open-knowledge-repository-0
- https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/COAR_Observatory_World_Bank_OKR_Profile.pdf
- https://sparcopen.org/our-work/innovator/world-bank/
- https://creativecommons.org/2012/04/10/world-bank-stakes-leadership-position-by-announcing-open-access-policy-and-launching-open-knowledge-repository-under-creative-commons/
- https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/01/23/open-knowledge-repository-introduces-mobile-friendly-design