Open Access lunch seminar at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands Monday 22 October 2012

[LP Darvis]

The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education was established in 2003. It carries out research, education and capacity building activities in the fields of water, environment and infrastructure. UNESCO-IHE continues the work that began in 1957 when IHE first offered a postgraduate diploma course in hydraulic engineering to practising professionals from developing countries.

The Institute is based in Delft, the Netherlands, and is owned by all UNESCO member states. It is established as a UNESCO ‘category I’ institute jointly by UNESCO and the Government of the Netherlands.

The Institute is the largest water education facility in the world, and the only institution in the UN system authorized to confer accredited MSc degrees.

As signatory of the Berlin declaration on open access and in line with its mission UNESCO-IHE aims to disseminate its knowledge and supports Open Access as a new norm of scholarship and research. Several initiatives, such as joining the Open Courseware Consortium are underway.

At this lunch seminar Patricia Darvis of UNESCO-IHE will present several open access platforms, the open courseware consortium and the intellectual property aspects of publishing open access.

For Whom?

• Students : will gain factual information on open access peer-reviewed resources.
• Researchers: intellectual property and copyrights under the Creative Commons licence.

 

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