The last part of an experiment in a matched interview process is now available.

 

The experiment consists of Q&As with two OA advocates, one from the global North and one from the global South, along with their responses to each other’s Q&A.

 

The first Q&A was undertaken with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer, and was published on April 8^th.

 

https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-view-from.html

 

The second Q&A was conducted with Mahmoud Khalifa, a librarian at the Library of Congress Cairo Office and DOAJ Ambassador for the Middle East and Persian Gulf, and was published on April 24^th.

 

https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-view-from_24.html

 

Khalifa’s response to MacKie-Mason’s Q&A was published on 19^th April.

 

https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/north-south-and-open-access-mahmoud.html

 

The final part (published on May 4^th) consists of four sections. First (A), MacKie-Mason responds to Khalifa’s Q&A; second (B), MacKie-Mason comments on Khalifa’s response to his Q&A; third (C), Mackie-Mason comments on the “polemical” nature of the preambles I attached to the interviews; fourth (D), I respond to MacKie-Mason’s comments about my style.

 

This last item can be accessed here: https://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/north-south-and-open-access-jeff-mackie.html

 

Richard Poynder