Open Access as a Knowledge Platform for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

This book incorporates the in-depth discussion on Open Access (OA) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set up by the United Nations and how OA expedites the progress toward the United Nations SDGs. Primary target audience are the scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and supporters, offering valuable insights into using OA to solve global problems.

The book starts with basic understanding, explaining the basics of OA, how it connects to the SDGs, and showing examples of successful OA projects. The book highlights the role of open data in fostering innovation for sustainability, including specific instances where openly accessible datasets have stimulated innovation for sustainable development. The book looks at how OA lines up with specific SDGs like quality education, good health, infrastructure, etc.  It also looks at the rules and plans needed to get more people using OA and predicts where OA is headed in the future for sustainable development. It also discusses the impact of open educational resources in democratizing learning globally, as well as the role of OA medical research in advancing health equity. The book also investigates how collaborative research platforms contribute to building green technology and bridging gender gaps in knowledge dissemination. Additionally, it discusses how free information exchange enables sustainable agriculture practices and how community-based participatory research archives empower local communities. Book also discusses the role of shared environmental studies and accessibility to legal and policy frameworks in promoting justice and climate action.

Each chapter not only gives ideas but also offers practical instructions for using OA to share knowledge, work together across different fields, and make decisions based on facts that things are really important for reaching SDGs. Successful case studies are also presented to understand the benefits and drawback of OA especially by considering the SDGs. The book acknowledges the challenges of OA implementation.

Dr. Tanupriya Choudhury successfully obtained his PhD degree from Jagannath University, in 2016. With a total of 15 years of experience in both teaching and research, Dr. Choudhury holds the position of visiting professor at Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. Currently, he is working as Professor in School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun. Prior to this role, he served as a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India, Professor at Symbiosis International Deemed University Pune, Graphic Era Hill University Dehradun (Research Professor), UPES Dehradun (Professor and Research Head Informatics), Amity University Noida (Assistant Professor Grade 3 and International Dept. Head), and other prestigious academic institutions. Recently recognized for his outstanding contributions to education with the Global Outreach Education Award for Excellence in Best Young Researcher Award at GOECA 2018. Notably accomplished within his field thus far is filing 25 patents and securing copyrights for 16 software programs from MHRD. He published 150 research papers (Scopus) and has also been invited as a guest lecturer or keynote speaker at esteemed institutions such as Jamia Millia Islamia University, Maharaja Agersen College (Delhi University), Duy Tan University Vietnam etc. He has also contributed significantly to various conferences throughout India serving roles like TPC member and session chairperson.

Amit Awasthi did PhD in 2011 with more than 20 years of professional experience in the area of Research & Development, Teaching, and allied functions with reputed Educational Institutions and Universities. Presently associated with School of advanced Science, UPES, Dehradun as Associate Professor (Physics). Editor of Spatial Information Research and Asian Journal of water, Environment and Pollution. Offering Research experience in the area of Atmospheric / Environment Sciences including Climate Change, extreme events, Aerosol Physics, Aerosol Technology and Measurements, Air Monitoring and Exposure Studies, Aerosol Science and Technology, Aerosol Physical Properties. The merit of receiving International Fellowship from National Science Council- Taiwan as Postdoc Fellow; got it initially for one year which was later extended for another year, basis showcasing outstanding performance hence gain two-year Postdoc Experience from Taiwan. Published 5 text books and more than 60 research papers in reputed with a total Impact factor ~250, h- index of 22 and citation of approaches to 1700. Editor of several special issue in Frontier in Environmental Sciences, Geosystems and Geoenvironment, Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution. Authored, etc. Authored and edited books in Taylor Francis, Elsevier, Springer.

Jung-Sup Um Professor, Department of Geography, College of Social Sciences, Kyungpook National University, South Korea. He is as an Editor-in-Chief of Spatial Information Research (Springer-Nature) since 2015. He was awarded Outstanding Research Award 13 times for sig­nificant and lasting research contributions. He is also the author of a recent book on Drones as Cyber-Physical Systems, Concepts and Applications for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, coauthor of seven books on Spatial Information, and the author of more than 100 journal publications (including two patents registered). He has tried to promote the importance of drones as a core infrastructure of the 4th Industrial Revolution era while offering online lectures on the contents of this book. His current research work is on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing as a cyber-physical sys­tem, the use of satellite data (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)) for UN-REDD (United Nations’ collaborative program on “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation”) MRV require­ments, and synergistic application research that com­bines with various disciplines such as law, economics, political science, environmental science, etc. As a pho­tographer and remote sensing practitioner, he began to intensively occupy himself with drones by the revolu­tionary prospect of being able to take aerial photographs at any time or any place. He was a princi­pal investigator in the various research projects that led to promoting geographic information to the general public. He was the program co-chair of the Organizing Committee of FOSS4G, Seoul from 2013 to 2015.