Eifl Open Access Presentation

Open Access: Gaining the Momentum Buhle Mbambo-Thata Executive Director UNISA Library, (formerly Advisory Board member of eifl.net)

Outline of presentation
Definition of open access
Impetus of OA
Budapest Open access initiative
Power of Open Access
Eifl Open Access programme
Some specific examples of country application
Conclude

Definition of open access
In using the term 'open access‘, we mean 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 texts of the articles. (Budapest Open Access Initiative, February 2002)

Driving force behind open access – Dissatisfaction at all levels
Authors : their work is not seen by all their peers – do not receive the recognition they deserve
Readers : cannot view all research literature they need – less effective
Libraries : cannot satisfy information needs of their users

Open Access
What is it?
Call for free, unrestricted access on the public internet to the literature that scholars give to the world without expectation of payment .
Why?
Widen dissemination, accelerate research, enrich education, share learning amongst all nations, enhance return on taxpayer investment in research.
How?
Use existing funds to pay for dissemination , not access .

Budapest Open Access Initiative ( February 2002)
Two complementary strategies:
Self-Archiving : Scholars should be able to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives which conform to Open Archives Initiative standards – Directory of Open Access Repositories ( http://www.opendoar.org/ ) lists 1158 repositories
Open-Access Journals : Journals will not charge subscriptions or fees for online access. Instead, they should look to other sources to fund peer-review and publication (e.g., publication charges) - Lund Directory of Open Access Journals ( http://www.doaj.org/ ) – lists 3441 peer-reviewed open access journals
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

The Power of Open Access – Self Archiving
For 72% of papers published in the Astrophysical Journal free versions of the paper are available (mainly through ArXiv)
These 72% of papers are, on average, cited twice as often as the remaining 28% that do not have free versions.
Greg Schwarz
Tim Brody from Southampton has shown that papers for which there is also a free version available have, on average, greater citations than those that are only available through subscriptions
http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study

The Power of Open Access – Journals
Open access PNAS papers have 50% more full-text downloads than non-open access papers
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0505/msg01580.html
… and are on average twice as likely to be cited http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

Open Access Policies
As the public policy agenda develops we are seeing an increasing number of policies relating to open access from:
Research groups
Universities
Research centers
Funding bodies
Governments
National and international bodies

Funding Bodies - The Future
The last three years has seen funding agencies in Europe and US begin to take an interest in open access
They see dissemination as part of the research process and publication costs as research costs
We will continue to see increasing high-level support for open access
We can expect further policy statements over the next year, some of which will mandate deposit in suitable repositories
These policies and high-level support will underpin work on institutional repositories

Self-Archiving Policies
Research Organisations:
CERN – Requires researchers to deposit papers in the CERN repository
CNRS (Centre National de la recherche scientifique)
Institutions:
the University of Helsinki, Finland – June 2008
Harvard University – February 2008
Queensland University of Technology
Bielefeld University
University of Bremen
University of Hamburg
Universidade do Minho
University of Southampton
Case Western Reserve University
University of Oslo
Summary By Type ( http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php ):
4 DEPARTMENTAL Mandates 4 Proposed FUNDER Mandates
22 FUNDER Mandates 1 Proposed INSTITUTIONAL Mandates
18 INSTITUTIONAL Mandates 2 Proposed MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL Mandates
44 TOTAL Mandates 7 TOTAL Proposed Mandates

Funder policies - mandates
Australian Research Council
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Research Foundation Flanders)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
European Research Council (ERC)
Agence Nationale de la recherche (France)
Health Research Board (HRB) of Ireland
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology
Swiss National Science Foundation
Arthritis Research Foundation, UK
Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK
British Heart Foundation
Cancer Research UK
Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Executive Health Department)
Department of Health (UK)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), UK
Medical Research Council (MRC), UK
National Environmental Research Council (NERC), UK
Science & Technology Facilities Council, UK
Wellcome Trust, UK
National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Proposed Funder mandates
European Commission
European Research Advisory Board (EURAB)
European University Association (EUA)
National Knowledge Commission, India
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), USA

Open Access – A Policy Issue
Open Access policies are:
Welcomed by authors
Complied with by authors
Compatible with copyright and respect authors’ moral rights
Compatible with patent registration
Respectful of academic and intellectual freedoms
Aligned with the aims of most funding bodies and institutions
Effective!

What Institutions Are Doing
Self-archiving:
Set-up and maintain institutional repository.
Help faculty deposit their research papers, new & old, digitizing if necessary.
Implement open-access policies
Open-access journals:
Help promote open access journals launched at their institution become known externally.
Ensure scholars at their institution know how to find open access journals and archives in their fields.
Support open access journal ‘institutional memberships’ (e.g. BioMedCentral, PLoS)
Engage with politicians and funding bodies to raise the issue of open access
http://www.createchange.org/

Open Access – Appealing to All the Major Stakeholders
To the funders of researcher – both as a public service and as an increased return on their investment in research
To the authors – as it gives wider dissemination and impact
To readers – as it gives them access to all primary literature, making the most important ‘research tool’ more powerful
To editors and reviewers – as they feel their work is more valued
To the libraries – as it allows them to meet the information needs of their users
To the institutions – as it increases their presence and prestige
To small and society publishers – as it gives them a survival strategy and fits with their central remit

electronic Information for Libraries www.eIFL.net
Enabling access to knowledge through libraries in developing and transition countries
48 Member countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Kosova, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

eIFL.net programs
1+1= More and better. The benefits of library consortia
Advocating for affordable and fair access to commercially produced scholarly resources
Advocacy for access to knowledge: copyright and libraries
Open access publishing and the building of institutional repositories of local content
Promoting free and open source software for libraries Strengthening Intellectual Property rights
Promoting a culture of cooperation: knowledge and information sharing

eIFL-OA seeks to enhance access to research, thereby accelerating innovation and economic development in the countries participating in the eIFL network
eIFL-OA Program
builds networks of Open Access repositories, Open Access journals, Open Access education materials ;
provides training and advice on Open Access policies and practices;
empowers library professionals, scientists and scholars, educators and students to become open access advocates.
eIFL Open Access Program

Some eg. implementation - Ukraine
Since January 2007 Ukraine has a law - proposed mandate for open access to publicly funded research.
It was widely supported by most of the Parliament members.
And it is already the second parliamentary inquiry mandating the Cabinet of Ministers to take actions on creating favourable conditions for developing open access repositories in archives, libraries, museums, scientific and research institutions with open access condition to state funded research.
Law of Ukraine On the principles of developing information society in Ukraine for 2007-20015 at www.rada.gov.ua

Some examples – South Africa (cont.)
the Academy of Science (ASSAF) Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has dedicated a substantial three-year budget to fund the implementation of ASSAF's recommendations for the development of scholarly publication in South Africa - a 'gold route' Open Access approach to journal publishing in South Africa.

Conclusion
The open access movement seeks to develop connections between research and policy in developing and transitional countries. It has also partnered with like minded organisations in Western countries to promote Open Access and link open access to research.

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