Please view the posters presented at the 18th Annual CityTech Faculty and Student Research Poster Session below. You can click on each poster to enlarge it and view the PDF version under the poster abstract.
We thank all presenters for sharing their innovative and informative research with the CityTech community and beyond!
32. Bibliodiversity at the Center: Decolonizing Open Access
The Historic Problem. Scholars from the less developed countries of the Global South seek to be knowledge creators but often find themselves on the periphery. They are under-resourced in myriad ways including onerous teaching loads, insufficient research infrastructure, and lack of funding for international conferences. English may not be their first language. Open access was promised to be the great equalizer by removing barriers to knowledge. However, open access continues to be embedded in colonial models that have not fostered independence and self-determination for the South. Open access was conceptualized in a development paradigm to emphasize the reader (access) and not the author (knowledge creator). The map below depicts the global unbalance of scholarship. View or download a PDF version of this poster.
