1. THE LIBRARY FOR RETIREES,
OPEN DEVELOPMENT FOR
ANYONE
Eliza McLeod
Head, Library Research Services
The World Bank Group
Presented at the World Bank Group Library
March 14, 2013
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2. AGENDA
Retiree borrowing privileges from the Library
Open Development: A Look At Open Data
Open Access & Freely Available Resources
Google Scholar ---quick look
LinkedIn
Free Reference Management Tools
Your Suggestions
Questions
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3. Retirees Privileges from the
Library
Access & Search the Library Catalog @
http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/external.htm
Local retirees may borrow (check out) materials from
the collection
• 2 week loan period for books, 1 week for
journals, renewable
• You provide local contact information for our records
to borrow
Use all print materials available in the Joint Library
(IMF HQ1 C700) and WBG Library (MC C3 220)
Make photocopies for free
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4. Retirees Privileges from the
Library, con’t
Use the library space, tables, study carrels
Use public workstations in WBG Library and Joint
Library for Internet access
Use personal laptops to access Internet via Wifi.
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5. Open Development
Open Data
http://data.worldbank.org
Share tools and essential information on the global
economy and Bank’s operations
Open Knowledge
Enable researchers, students, local communities to collect
data, measure results, increase knowledge
Open Solutions
Work together to find solutions to development problems

6. Motivation
• Part of a broader move, including our Access to
Information Policy
http://go.worldbank.org/TRCDVYJ440
• Stimulate use of development data to solve
development problems
• Build on global Open Data initiatives

7. Open Data Initiative Background & Use
• Launched by Robert Zoellick
in April 2010
• 1/3 of all web traffic at the
World Bank is for open data
• +15.5 million unique visitors
daily
• Over 85 major datasets listed
in the catalog. 8,000+
indicators
• Central index & starting place
for all data across the Bank

8. Features of the data @ World Bank
• Indicator search function, also basic site search
• Available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic
• Build own tables & custom queries
• Download data as Excel, xml
• Browse by Country or by Topics
• Legally & Technically Open

9. Features of con’t
Features the site
• Embed Tables, Charts, Maps into your sites, blogs
• Partnership with Google who have translated a
selection of Bank data into 37 languages!
• Data Visualization & Analytical Tools
• Data & pages can all be shared through
Email · Twitter · Facebook · Delicious

10. data.worldbank.org
Today

11. OPEN ACCESS
Removes price barriers
(subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-
view fees) and permission barriers
(most copyright and licensing
restrictions) for scholarly content
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/ov
erview.htm
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12. OPEN ACCESS
Strategies to achieve goal of OA
I. Self-Archiving
I. Scholars deposit their refereed journal articles in open
electronic archives following standards from the Open
Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/
II. Search engines treat the separate archives as one so
users don’t need to know about where the content is
residing.
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13. OPEN ACCESS
II. Open-access Journals
Journal articles should be disseminated as widely as
possible
OA journals will not invoke copyright to restrict access to
and use of the material they publish
Ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish
Remove barriers to access: OA journals will not charge
subscription or access fees
Cover expenses through foundations and governments
funding research, universities and laboratories that employ
researchers and endowments
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14. FREE DEVELOPOMENT &
RESEARCH RESOURCES
 Eldis http://www.eldis.org/
 Development Experience
Clearinghouse (USAID)
http://dec.usaid.gov
 Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org/
 ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/
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15. OPEN ACCESS SOURCES
Freely Accessible Full Text Journals:
AGORA, AJOL, DOAJ, GDN, HINARI , INASP/PERI, OARE,
Oxford Journals, Economics - Directory of Open Access
Journals
Some require registration, restrictions for free access by region
Open Access Repositories: ROAR, OpenDOAR, OAIster
Statistical Sources: UNSTATS, FAOSTAT, ILO’s LABORSTA
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16. OPEN ACCESS @WORLD BANK
Banks Documents and Reports
http://documents.worldbank.org
- Over 130,000 publicly available World Bank documents
- Since 1996, pdf, text versions ,project documents, working
papers and flagship publications
Projects & Operations http://www.worldbank.org/projects
- 11,000 lending projects in over 100 countries from 1947
onwards
Major flagship publications
• World Development Report
– http://go.worldbank.org/LOTTGBE9I0
– http://www.wdronline.worldbank.org/
• Doing Business series
– http://www.doingbusiness.org/
– Data http://www.doingbusiness.org/data
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17. “A Sea Change for World
Bank Publishing”
Creative Commons---A Sea Change for World Bank Publishing
Blog By Carlos Rossell 05/08/2012
http://blogs.worldbank.com/education/category/tags/creative-
commons
Adopted the most liberal attribution-only Creative Commons
license (CC BY) to release works
All research & knowledge products written by World Bank
staff, and the associated datasets be deposited in an open
access repository
Launched the new open access repository, the Open
Knowledge Repository (OKR) --- subset of Documents & Reports
Database http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/home
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18. A Sea Change for World
Bank Publishing, con’t
Author versions of articles published outside the Bank will be
licensed in the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) after the
embargo period has elapsed, unless the publisher agrees to the more
liberal release.
License allows the work to be downloaded and shared, but not built
upon or used commercially, as long as the Bank is credited for the
original work.
Read also: Bank Publications and Research Now Easier to
Access, Reuse http://go.worldbank.org/GWQP2I5FD0
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19. Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Use double quotes to search phrases “ title”
Use Advanced Search to target results
Example, finding a pdf: “An ecological perspective on health
promotion programs”
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20. LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/
Worldwide professional network.
1818 Society has a group page
Free.
Great way to connect with other experts, contact authors to get their
papers that may not be freely available.
Share your CV& profile with only the people you want to
Follow groups of interest to you.
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21. Reference Management
Open Source (free) tools
Mendeley: reference manager and PDF organizer
http://www.mendeley.com/
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] : tool to help you
collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
http://www.zotero.org/
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22. 1818 Society Suggestions
Other sites/sources you shared with us
Open ISBN http://www.openisbn.com/
Find free epub and pdf versions of books available to download
TED http://www.ted.com/ TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth
Spreading, bringing together people from three worlds:
Technology, Entertainment, Design. Listen to a TED Talk to get
inspired, search topics, watch your favorite speakers on topics of your
interest.
Twitter. http://www.twitter.com Retirees will find the World Bank on twitter
and can see trending topics and tweet themselves with a free account.
https://twitter.com/WorldBank Quick way to share info, follow hot topics
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23. Shift from knowledge is power
to knowledge sharing is
power.
Open Access, Big Data & Development Policy Blog
http://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/node/546
Open Access, Open Knowledge and Open Development Research
Guide http://researchguides.worldbankimflib.org/free-online-
resources (being revised & updated by one of WBG Research
Librarians)
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24. Questions?
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25. Thank You
Eliza McLeod --- WBG Library
E-mail: Emcleod@worldbank.org
Phone: 202-473-6960
Skype: lizamcl
URL: http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/external.htm
LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eliza-mcleod/a/a77/17b