Leslie Chan

Chan, Leslie. 2017. “Confessions of an Open Access Advocate | Confesiones de Un Defensor Del Acceso Abierto.” OCSDNET (blog). September 19, 2017.

AO: This blog post of an interview conducted with Leslie Chan who he worries that the Open Access movement may have in fact had the opposite of its original intended effect – instead of democratizing and enabling knowledge to be used by wider publics for local development, in his eyes, the...Read more

"Scholarly ecosystems, professional publisher ecosystems, and corporate publisher ecosystems"

KM: I was interested in Eve Gray's point about the Budapest Initiative, and Leslie...Read more

How is Open Access (in Africa) characterized?

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Querying "Open Access" (in/from Africa)

Chan, Leslie. 2019. "Structural Power and Knowledge Inequity." In UCT-SPARC Africa Open Access Symposium.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ketQCOQAX12sBtUnFRUxswXguEeivpVb/view

Chan, Leslie. 2010. "Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango discusses the importance of Open Access for research from Kenya and other African countries"

https://vimeo.com/10169351

Journals becoming commercial products and the target of takeover

Leslie Chan: I noticed this line from Eve about the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) as...Read more

How is Open Access (in Africa) characterized?

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Querying "Open Access" (in/from Africa)