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Volume 29, Issue 5
6 July 2015
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Book Review| July 06 2015

Open Knowledge Repository

Open Knowledge Repository.
Washington, DC
World Bank
2012-
Suzanne L. Reinman
Suzanne L. Reinman
Associate Professor, Documents Librarian, Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7697
Print ISSN: 0950-4125
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2015
Licensed reuse rights only.
Reference Reviews (2015) 29 (5): 21–22.
https://doi.org/10.1108/RR-05-2015-0113
Keywords: World Bank, Development, Open data, Open access

In a time of the promotion of data that is open access, the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository admirably fulfils the mission of the open access agenda, “unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse” (Public Library of Science, 2015). In an 10 April 2012 press release, the World Bank announced its “open access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products […] to increase access to information […] and to makes its research as widely available as possible”. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository has been launched and is available for anyone to “use, re-use and redistribute most of the...

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