Open access projects and libraries

Open access projects and libraries Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.net Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/transformational-times.pdf

Transformational times
“ On the other hand,
the economic situation could be favourable
to the further development of open access publishing in Canada.”

Transformational times
“ Open Access publication mandates
may well be adopted by the funding councils…
Data preservation will also likely be more widely mandated .
Systematic enforcement of the mandates will depend on the development of appropriate repositories, whether disciplinary or institutional .”

Open Access (OA) & libraries
open access
has permanently changed
the field of scholarly communication

OA & libraries
Open access
has changed
the profile of academic and research libraries
– more and more they have become partners
in research,
data-curation
and education,
ensuring the quality of digital resources is maintained, and openly sharing these resources with their users

OA & libraries
Academic and research libraries
are setting up and maintaining
open access institutional or subject repositories,
becoming partners
in open access publishing,
and helping to create
open educational resources

OA & libraries
Academic and research libraries
are also developing
advanced and enhanced metrics
– a new range of standardized indicators based on reader (rather than author-facing) metrics
and much more still remains to be explored

Open data
Amount of scientific data
is growing every year
Access, use and curation
of large data sets
are becoming increasingly important.
Ensuring open access to the data
behind the research literature
will help to build a scholarly communication system that supports the needs of researchers

Open data
As Open Data moves
to the forefront of scholarly communication,
librarians, administrators, and researchers
have to consider new access policies
for data and data curation issues

Open data
Raising awareness and understanding
of data issues amongst researchers,
providing archiving
and preservation services for datasets,
and developing a new professional strand of practice – data librarianship are key challenges for the library and information science community

OER
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration
defines open educational resources (OER)
as "openly licensed course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software and other materials that support teaching and learning."
It goes on to state that these resources should be "... licensed to facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by anyone."

OER
OER have the potential
to transform the way scholarship is conducted and they are a logical extension
of what the library community supports in the open access movement
Libraries have a role to play in the open education by encouraging the creation and use of open materials

Changing landscape
In this changing environment
for scholarly communication
academic and research libraries
need to be
agile,
creative,
risk-taking
and innovative
in order to respond to the needs
of a new generation of faculty and students

Changing landscape
Science is dynamic
and collaborative
and it is important
to sustain the communication processes,
rather than to simply archive research results
in the form of a single journal article

Changing landscape
Librarians and information specialists
need to be involved in the early planning
and data-modelling phases
of research
in order to accelerate learning
and discovery,
and libraries will need
to become core collaborators on campus,
using technology
to advance scholarly communication
and enable a climate of openness

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/repository-services-report.pdf

Thank you ! Questions ? Iryna Kuchma iryna.kuchma[at]eifl.net; www. eifl .net The presentation is licensed with Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Open access projects and libraries

by Iryna Kuchma

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