Copyright

Richard Heller

Published On

2026-05-05

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

THEMA

  • JN
  • JNM
  • UYQ
  • JNA
  • JNK

BISAC

  • EDU015000
  • EDU040000
  • EDU016000
  • EDU032000
  • COM004000

Keywords

  • Distributed education
  • Online learning
  • Knowledge equity
  • Digital technology
  • University transformation
  • Open access

3. Open publishing, reviewing, and curating

Having created knowledge through research, it needs to be made openly available to those who would benefit from using the knowledge, as a key aspect of knowledge equity. The chapter discusses the value of open publishing and the notion of the Publish-Review-Curate model, where reviews, also open, occur after publication. Diamond Open Access is identified as a major transformation in journal and textbook publication.

Contributors

Richard F. Heller

(author)
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University of Newcastle Australia
Emeritus Professor of Public Health at University of Manchester

Richard Heller, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle, Australia and of Public Health, University of Manchester, UK, has a medical degree and doctorate from the University of London, United Kingdom. He was Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Newcastle, Australia and Professor of Public Health at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Richard was also the founder and coordinator of the People’s Open Access Education Initiative (https://www.peoples-uni.org/), which aimed to provide Public Health capacity building in developing countries at low cost, through e-learning using open access resources on the internet, and leading to an MPH degree. Recent work has been in conjunction with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) to develop Diamond Open Access initiatives for public health in Africa. He authored Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education and was co-editor of Stories of Hope:- Reimagining Education, https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0462