Presentation by Ken Scott (Associate Library Director - Access and Media Services) at Georgetown University - Qatar on Open Access Institutional Repositories -
Part of QScience.com's Open Access Week Event: Discover Open Access with QScience.com - held at Hamad bin Khalifa University Student Center, Education City, Doha on 22nd October 2014
http://www.qscience.com/page/OAweek2014
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Institutional respositories - Ken Scott (Georgetown University Qatar) - #OAWeek2014
1. Discover Open Access with QScience.com
Institutional
Repositories
Ken Scott
Associate Library Director - Access and Media Services
2. Open Access Movement
• Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration
(February 2002)
• Open access journals/books – Gold Route Open Access
• Self-archiving – Green Route Open Access
– Personal websites
– Scholarly repositories
» Institutional repositories of academic institutions
5. Copyright and Repositories
• Transfer of copyright to publisher usually part
of the publishing agreement
• Preprint/postprint – usually OK to self-archive
• Publisher’s version PDF – approval required
6. Retaining Selected Rights
SPARC Addendum
“SPARC is an international
alliance of academic and
research libraries working to
create a more open system of
scholarly communication”
www.sparc.arl.org
7. Institutional Repository Software
1225 sites
468 sites
168 sites
Open Archives Initiative Protocol
(OAI) compliant software ensures
machine-to-machine interface provides
effective harvesting of metadata by
search engines such as Google.