This history of UNESCO retraces almost 50 years in the life of the international organization, whose action in fields such as education, science, culture and communication have been at the heart of changes since World War II.

UNESCO issued this publication to demystify the concept of open access (OA) and to provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Its focus is on scientific research from peer-reviewed journal articles. Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of the concept. Creating an enabling policy environment for OA is therefore a priority. This publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level. The overall objective of the Policy Guidelines is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access. The guidelines are not prescriptive in nature, but are suggestive to facilitate knowledge-based decision-making to adopt OA policies and strengthen national research systems.

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and documentary study, the book links the change in operations of the World Heritage Committee with structural nation-centeredness, vulnerable procedures for evaluation, monitoring and decision-making, and loose heritage conceptions that have been inconsistently applied. As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO's major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of a dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. It engages simultaneously with a diversity of discourses across the humanities and social sciences and with related theories pertaining not only to tangible and intangible heritage, conservation, and archaeology but also political science, social theory, tourism and development studies, economics, cultural, and gender studies. In doing so, it provides a critical review of many key concepts, including tourism, development, sustainability, intangible heritage, and authenticity.

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Traducción parcial de la Introducción: "Este es el último módulo del curso sobre acceso abierto para investigadores. Se han visto diferentes cuestiones en torno al concepto de acceso abierto, su historia, sus ventajas, iniciativas, derechos de autor y licencias, y su impacto en el contexto de la comunicación académica. En este módulo con sólo dos unidades, tiene como objetivo ayudar al investigador a compartir su trabajo en acceso abierto en repositorios y revistas OA. El módulo tiene como objetivo: - Comprender el proceso de publicación en la difusión de trabajos académicos; - Elegir las revistas de acceso abierto y repositorios adecuados para el intercambio de resultados de la investigación - Utilizar los medios sociales para promover el trabajo de investigación personal y construir una reputación digital. En la Unidad 1, se discute el proceso de publicación de la investigación en cinco etapas: planificación, preparación, la etapa previa a la publicación, etapa de publicación y el estadio postpublication. Haciendo hincapié en la importancia de los medios sociales para compartir y hacer un trabajo visible a los grupos objetivo. En la Unidad 2, se centra en como compartir la investigación a través de repositorios OA y Revistas. Los diferentes tipos de repositorios para seleccionar y destaca los pasos que un investigador puede considerar incluyendo el depósito en sus propios repositorios institucionales o en repositorios abiertos globales. Esta unidad también ofrece orientación sobre la elección de las revistas de acceso abierto más adecuadas, como la calidad de las publicaciones de OA es a menudo cuestionada". (Trad. Julio Alonso Arévalo. Univ. Salamanca).

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases in the agency's history and explores the literary and cultural programming of each. In the immediate postwar period, healthy economies made possible the funding of an infrastructure in support of a liberal cosmopolitanism and the spread of capitalist democracy. In the decolonizing 1960s and '70s, illiteracy and lack of access to literature were lamented as a "book hunger" in the developing world, and reading was touted as a universal humanizing value to argue for a more balanced communications industry and copyright regime. Most recently, literature has become instrumental in city and nation branding that drive tourism and the heritage industry. Today, the agency largely treats high literature as a commercially self-sustaining product for wealthy aging publics, and fundamental policy reform to address the uneven relations that characterize global intellectual property creation is off the table. UNESCO's literary programming is in this way highly suggestive. A trajectory that might appear to be one of triumphant success—literary tourism and festival programming can be quite lucrative for some people—is also, under a different light, a story of decline.