OPEN ACCESS AND SPARC AFRICAJEREMIAH PIETERSEN

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

SANLIC CONFERENCE – 23 MAY 2017

OUTLINE

• Demystifying “Open”

• Open Access

• Open Science

• Open Data

• Open Education Resources

• Open Education

• Open Source Software

• Open Scholarship

• Open Publishing

• SPARC Africa

OPEN ACCESS

“Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with therights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone canaccess and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives”– SPARC US

• Research that is publically funded should be made publically available

• Green Open Access

• Gold Open Access

• Diamond Open Access

OPEN SCIENCE

• Process rather than the output

• Reproducibility of scientific research

• Content, methods, techniques and data being well organised and openlyavailable for readers to understand, reproduce and reuse

• Center for Open Science

• Open Science Framework (OSF)

OPEN DATA

• Research data that is freely available and accessible; allows download,analysis, re-process, software analysis, or for use for any other purpose; and,is void of technical, legal or financial barriers

• Open Data platforms are being developed

• Digital repositories and software development platforms

• figshare

• GitHub

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

• OSS has allowances for wide distribution and for adaptation to the sourcecode for any use

• Good practice for building on Open

• DSpace

• Open Knowledge Maps

OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES

Open Educational Resources (OERs) refer to learning materials available tostudents, educators and those doing self-directed learning licensed with anopen license to allow reuse, customisation and sharing (Bissell, 2009: 97)

OPEN EDUCATION

• Resources (OERs), tools and practices

• Open Textbooks

• “Legacy publishing models”

OPEN SCHOLARSHIP

• Encompassing term for product rather than process

• Open Source Software (OSS), Open Access and Open Education Resources(OERs)

• “Openness”

• “Open Agenda”

OPEN PUBLISHING

• OA has not been designed with libraries as its foundation

• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

• Open Journal Systems (OJS)

• Open Monograph Press (OMP)

SPARC AFRICASCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND ACADEMIC RESOURCES COALITION – AFRICA

OBJECTIVES

Constitution is guided by the following objectives:

• supporting and promoting the aims and objectives of open access;

• advising, working with and encouraging research funding agencies to adoptpolicies that advance open access;

• gaining active support by academic and research institutions for open accessthrough:

• allocation of funds to support open access;

• encouragement of national governments and agencies to adapt and adopt policies thatsupport open access to scholarly literature; and,

• development of favourable institutional intellectual property policies and practises;

OBJECTIVES (CONT.)

• enhancing the visibility of research output of academic and research institutions and thecountry;

• providing a network of support for libraries and librarians for:

• development of training programmes to address open access activities, for example, the creationand management of repositories;

• creation of common hosting platforms;

• adoption of open source software and the development of a support base for the optimalutilization of such software; and,

• promotion of the exchange of ideas and experience among members;

• co-operating with International Groups and Organizations (such as SPARC) in theadvancement of open access.

OPEN ACCESS SYMPOSIUM 2016

WAY FORWARD

• Steering committee constituted

• First meeting

• Strategic plan

• Principals/Rectors

THANK YOU!

Jeremiah Pietersen

Jeremiah.Pietersen@uct.ac.za

Lena Nyahodza

Lena.Nyahodza@uct.ac.za