Post on 27-Mar-2015
Partnering with Faculty / researchers to Enhance Scholarly Communication
Caroline Mutwiri
Print based ◦ Books◦ Journals
Subscription based (toll-access model)◦ Profit making ◦ Restrictions-pay- per- view (books & journals)◦ Access University consortia‘s not individual
libraries
Perpetual access-not guaranteed (access to current subscriptions).
Economic Trends in Scholarly Publishing
◦ High journal subscription cost◦ Shrinking library budgets / information
explosion◦ Libraries, universities, and scholars unable to
purchase the publications necessary for research and education.
Inaccessibility to scholarly publications
Invisibility of research
An alternative to the traditional subscription-based publishing model
OA intended to be free for readers not for producers.
Free availability of scholarly research literature on the public Internet –
OA focuses on academic research OA literature has minimal or no restrictions
-price or permissions OA literature is online
Literature that authors give to the world without expectation of payment. – career advancement-recognition, citation-promotion
Publicly funded research –fair return to the public on research funded with taxpayers' money
Institutional funded research- pay twice-fund researchers, library purchases
(SU funded research)
OA journals-Scholars can publish in OA journals (gold road)◦ e-journals that are freely available◦ Mirror quality assurance practices-Peer review,
copy-editing
◦Let authors retain the copyright to their articles and use the Creative Commons Attribution License
Researcher self-archiving in OA archives or repositories (green road)
◦ Institutional repositories-are digital archives of intellectual products created by the faculty, staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and without the institution, with few if any barriers to access
◦ Role- capture, centralize, preserve & disseminate a university’s collective intellectual capital
Best way to provide OA to institutional research output
A country’s research is more accessible to global researchers
Increases the return on investment of the funders of the research-universities, governments
Institutional Visibility and Prestige-indicators of an institution's academic quality◦ Showcase◦ Preserve &disseminate intellectual output in an easier, more
varied way◦ Complement existing metrics for gauging institutional
productivity Society benefits from the open exchange of ideas-
economy, public health,policy making all depend on access to & use of information
Researchers-their research is given much wider dissemination increasing the visibility, usage & impact of their findings
Students - able to access and use the full text of all the research published not just the research available to them via the subscriptions their institution can afford.
Building open-access repositories for their institutions
Providing enhanced access to OA works◦ Participating in the creation of IR metadata
Digital publishers of OA works Librarians can digitize OA versions of Out-
of-Copyright Works Librarians Can build specialized OA
Systems- Dspace, greenstone, e-print
Helping to create sensible IR policies and procedures
Designing the IR user interface so that it is clear, easy to use and effective.
Depositing digital materials for faculty in their subject areas
Training users in IR deposit and searching procedures
Demonstrate to scholars the benefits of wider exposure via open access
Publishing in OAJ’s and restrict the copyrights transferred to private publishing companies.
Consider launching an OA journal in areas of specialization
Self-archiving in an-OAI-compliant archive or repository
Adopt policies encouraging or requiring faculty to fill the institutional archive with their research articles (self-archiving policy)
Adopt a policy: faculty who publish articles must either (1) retain copyright, and transfer only the right of first print and electronic publication, or (2) transfer copyright but retain the right of postprint archiving
Adopt a policy: all theses and dissertations, upon acceptance, must be made openly accessible through the specific institutional repository
Adopts a systematic plan to promote OA-newsletter Demand that university-funded research be made
available to community free of charge
Adopt a policy: all conferences hosted at your university will provide OA to their presentations & proceedings, even if the conference also chooses to publish them in a priced journal or book
Consider joining Dspace federation-those using dspace
Support, reward, faculty who publish in OA Require that any articles to be considered in a
promotion and tenure review must be on deposit in the university's OA repository
Sign major declarations-Budapest Open Access Initiative & Berlin Declaration on Open Access to knowledge.
Each institution build / create their repository
Enable various libraries to share their resources
Institutions try and make their repositories open
Many universities and individual researchers have been slow to adopt open access -limited number of universities worldwide having established institutional repositories to facilitate deposit of research by their faculty. ◦ Kenyan universities slow- indicator- web metric
rankings- based on institution’s web presence Many conventional publishers actively
oppose open access- fear cutting profits
Establishing OA requires active commitment by all parties involved-administrators, faculty, librarians, students
Universities must be aware of the (r)evolution taking place in scholarly communication and influence it as much as possible, for the benefit of their own organizations and global scientific and scholarly communities