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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 and adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all research and knowledge products published by the organization, which collectively made the World Bank the first international organization to completely embrace open access.[2][3][4] The repository collects the intellectual output of the World Bank in digital form, disseminates it, and preserves it long-term.[2][5]

Contents

The Open Knowledge Repository features books, reports, serials, technical papers, and working papers and is regularly updated.[6] 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][5][6] 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.[7]

At its launch in April 2012, the Open Knowledge Repository held over 2,000 documents.[4] In August 2013, the repository held over 12,000 publications, mostly in English.[2] By January 2014, it held over 13,000 documents.[8]

Purpose

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".[7] 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.[9]

In the words of World Bank Group Senior Publishing Officer José De Buerba, the repository's goal is "to be the world’s most complete research and knowledge repository related to international development".[3]

Use

In just the first two months of its existence, the Open Knowledge Repository accumulated 325,000 pageviews and 50,000 downloads.[10] 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.[2] By April 2015, there had been over 6.3 million downloads, over 50% coming from the developing world.[3] As of October 2021, over 70 million files had been downloaded from the OKR.[11]

Through its use of Altmetrics, the OKR was able to determine that its content had been used over 42,000 times (by April 2015) in policy documents, by the press, in blogs and on social media, and on Wikipedia.[3]

Technical details

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][9] In the words of Diane Peters, the OKR's adherence to DCMI and OAI-PMH demonstrate it was "built with an eye toward maximizing interoperability, discoverability, and reusability".[4] The repository is also fully interoperable with other major repositories, such as Economists Online, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).[4] Among the OKR'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 and Scopus.[2][3]

Most content is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.[1] Its user interface is available in English, French, and Spanish.[1][9] English was initially the only language offered,[2] but French and Spanish were added in 2016.[3] In January 2014, the repository's website was relaunched with a new responsive web design, enabling better access on mobile devices. The relaunch also upgraded the site's search capabilities, recommendations for related titles, and enhanced author profiles.[8]

Awards and recognition

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 in June 2012 by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).[2][10] Creative Commons called the OKR "one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world".[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "About The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository". World Bank Group. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository" (PDF). Confederation of Open Access Repositories. August 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c d e f "An Overview of the Open Knowledge Repository". Agricultural Information Management Standards Portal. Food and Agriculture Organization. April 27, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c d Peters, Diane (April 10, 2012). "World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons". Creative Commons. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "World Bank Open Knowledge Repository". MacOdrum Library. September 23, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ a b "Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank)". Rutgers University Libraries. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository". World Bank Group. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ a b "World Bank Open Knowledge Repository Introduces Mobile-Friendly Design". World Bank Group. January 23, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
  9. ^ a b c "World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)". United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ a b "The World Bank". Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ "Site Statistics: Countries". Open Knowledge Repository. World Bank Group. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Carlos Rossel: How the World Bank opened its resources to the world". Team Open. Creative Commons. Retrieved October 26, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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