Csir Open Access Presentation

What is open access and what are the challenges in SA context? Siphethile Muswelanto Dr Martie Van Deventer CSIR Information Services-CSIRIS CSIR Information Services-CSIRIS Institutional Repository Practitioner Portfolio Manager Conference: Locating the power of in-between: how research brokers and intermediaries support evidence-based pro-poor policy and practice, 2 July 2008

Background about the CSIR
BOAI
What is OA
OA publishing
Gold road
OA self-archiving
Green Road
Institutional repositories
Overview:1

Copyrights
OA in South Africa
How CSIR promotes OA
Overview:2

The CSIR is one of the leading scientific and technology research, development and implementation organisations in Africa
CSIR’s migration to an open source environment
Initiated in 2006 under the internal campaign name ‘Vula!’
CSIR and OA:1

Open source is now on the agenda of national government, the CSIR is in a position to share learning and experience, and contribute to international developments
October 2006 the CSIR Information Services took the responsibility to establish an Institutional repository for the organisation
CSIR and OA:2

December 2001, Budapest: OSI held a meeting of leaders exploring alternative publishing models. The meeting concluded that “OA” was the goal and agreed on two main strategies to achieve it:
OA publishing
OA self-archiving
A bit of history

What is OA?
“ Open access” the free availability of peer-reviewed literature on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of an article

The “gold road” to OA
Researchers publish in OA journals
Examples of OA publishers:
BioMed Central
Public Library of Science
OA publishing

SPARC - Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
PLoS - Public Library of Science
BOAI - Budapest Open Access Initiative
OAI - Open Access Initiative
BioMed Central
Creative commons
Project RoMEO
Bodies funding OA

Researchers make articles freely accessible online, by depositing in an institutional repository
Institutional repositories
Peer-reviewed postprint
Non peer-reviewed preprint
OA self-archiving

"License to publish" agreements
Non-exclusive license
SHERPA RoMEO
Copyrights

Lack of awareness of what they have signed and the consequences
Fear they will not get published if they don’t sign
Attitudes towards copyrights:1

Attitudes towards copyrights:2
Preference for information managers to check copyright agreements for them
Do not want to upset the status quo
IR deposit is proposed to be a threat to Peer Review

5 OA journals in South Africa
South African Journal of Information Management
Sahara Journal of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS
South African Journal of Animal Science
Marine Ornithology Journal
African Journal on Conflict Resolution
13 IR
SASLI
OA in South Africa

SA journals on the DOAJ

DST takes the responsibility for ensuring that OA initiatives are promoted to enhance visibility of all South African research articles and to make them freely accessible to the entire international research community
Future of OA in South Africa:1

Universities or research organisations should develop OA policies and create IRs according to best practices
Policies should require that researcher deposit their publications upon acceptance for publication
Researchers should be informed about IPR and copyright management
Future of OA in South Africa:2

References:
Open Access Overview . / Peter Suber. March 2006. http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/overview.htm
The Budapest Open Access Initiative, December 2001. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/
Report on a Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa. / Academy of Sciences of South Africa. 2006. http://blues.sabinet.co.za/images/ejour/assaf/assaf_strategic_research_publishing.pdf
Jennifer A. De Beer, 2005. Open Access scholarly communication in South Africa: current status, significance, and the role for National Information Policy in the National System of Innovation. Thesis. http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003922

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