How the World Bank opened its resources to the world
Carlos Rossel | Team Open
In April of 2012, the World Bank adopted an open access policy, requiring that all outputs and knowledge published by the Bank be licensed under Creative Commons licenses, which allow others to use and republish the research. Since then, the World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository has released thousands of publications freely and openly and become one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world.
Research produced in-house is licensed under the CC Attribution (CC BY) license, and works produced by third parties are under the more restrictive Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license. No matter which license it’s under, all of the research is openly available and free to read and download. There are now over 13,200 publications available for free download in the repository.
