Increasing Global South Knowledge Representation with Open Access and Library Resource Sharing — 2025

Increasing Global South Knowledge Representation with Open Access and Library Resource Sharing

Peer-Review Session | Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 | 1:15pm – 2:15pm EST

In this peer-review session, I present ideas to study and overcome barriers to digital interlibrary loan exchange with Latin America under Fair Use (and equivalent provisions). Materials published in Latin America and the Caribbean are more difficult to discover and access from the United States, creating silos and under-representation of points of view from these regions in Global North scholarship. Open Access is key towards overcoming barriers to access, but much of Southern knowledge continues to be in non-Open Access publications with traditional copyright. As a result, library resource sharing and interlibrary loan must facilitate a greater flow of Southern knowledge into the Global North.

[This discussion will not be recorded.]

Presenter: J. Silvia Cho

J. Silvia Cho (she/her/they) is the Resource Sharing Librarian, Assistant Professor and library liaison to the Linguistics and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her current research interest centers around increasing the representation of Global South knowledge through library resource sharing. In the past, she has written or presented on bibliodiversity and library resource sharing, sharing digital collections, the representation of immigrants in library systems, and multicultural users’ library use. She holds an MLS from Queens College and an MA in Liberal Studies with a concentration on International Migration from the Graduate Center, CUNY.