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.”

“ 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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