1. FOREIGN STUDENTS AND FACULTY IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Alexandra Houzouri Humphreys
Instruction Librarian
Arizona State University Libraries

2. A. International students and visiting scholars—after
leaving ASU
B. Potential ASU international students and visiting
scholars in developing countries

3. Summer 2010:
A. Macedonia: presentation (graduate students)
B. Serbia: conference presentation (faculty, students, and
other participants)
C. Kosovo: workshop and presentation (undergraduate
and graduate students)

4. Serbia:
University Library in Belgrade
http://www.unilib.bg.ac.rs/e_izdanja/elektronske_baze_podataka/lista_b
aza.php
Between 1883 and 1929 more than 2,500 libraries were built with money
($50 mil.) donated by the American businessman/philanthropist Andrew
Carnegie. 1,689 of the libraries were built in the United States. The
Belgrade University Library is a Carnegie library.
University Library in Nis
http://www.ubnt.ni.ac.rs/
Databases:
http://kobson.nb.rs/pitanja_i_odgovori/pitanja_i_odgovori.660.html

5. Open Access (OA) research literature (variety of definitions):
1. Free of charge for users
2. Online
3. Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

6. Selected events in OA development
1997 Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
(SPARC) was founded by the Association of Research
Libraries.
“SPARC is an international alliance of academic and
research libraries working to correct imbalances in the
scholarly publishing system.”
http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/index.shtml

7. 2001 The Open Society Institute convened a meeting where the
"Budapest Open Access Initiative” (BOAI) was signed. Its
definition of open access (OA), while refined by subsequent
documents, remains the most influential one to this day:
“The literature that should be freely accessible online is that
which scholars give to the world without expectation of
payment.”
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

8. 2001 "An Open Letter to Scientific Publishers” was signed by
34,000 scholars and led to the establishment of the Public
Library of Service (PLoS), an advocacy organization. The
document calls for "the establishment of an online
public library that would provide the full contents of the
published record of research and scholarly discourse in
medicine and the life sciences in a freely accessible, fully
searchable, interlinked form.”
http://www.plos.org/about/letter.php

9. Open Access LibGuide: A guide to OA resources.
http://libguides.asu.edu/openaccess

17. Open Access video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jh_GffRPU&feature=player_embedded