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Advancing Open Access through Collaboration
1. The document discusses open access and its importance in advancing scholarly communication and research. It provides definitions and explanations of open access, its benefits, and different approaches to open access like open repositories and journals. 2. Key stakeholders in open access at Central University of Technology are identified, including the library who can assist with publishing, copyright issues, and increasing research visibility. 3. The Academy of Science of South Africa's Scholarly Publishing Unit works to improve the quality, quantity and worldwide visibility of South African research and foster new generations of scholars through various programs and recommendations.
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- 1. 1 Advancing access to informationthrough collaboration Ina Smith 20 October 2015 Central University of Technology Open Access Week 19-25 October 2015
- 2. What is OpenAccess about?
- 3. In a statementreleased by Linda Jarvis, Chief Financial Officer at Wits, her office explains the increase: “Some of the key reasons are: The rand-dollar exchange rate has fallen by approximately 22%, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the amount of money that we pay for all library books, journals, electronic resources research equipment that are procured in dollars and euros.” http://connect.citizen.co.za/25760/why-is- wits-raising-its-fees/
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- 6. Berlin Declaration • Wedefine open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community. • In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent. Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible. http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration
- 7. Why Open Access? •Research is expensive – funded with tax payers’ money • Publishing research on WWW comes at minimal cost • Open access accelerates pace of scientific discovery, encourages innovation, enriches education, stimulate economy – to improve public good … http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration
- 8. Musk says thatthe new open source policy’s goal is to help stem climate change. He writes: “It is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2 014/06/12/tesla-goes-open-source-elon-musk- releases-patents-to-good-faith-use/
- 9. Date Downloads Nov 2013984 May 2014 1 534 Oct 2015 2 289
- 12. • Open scholarlyrepositories • Open scholarly journals • Open scholarly monographs • Open scholarly conference proceedings • Open data set repositories • Open Educational Resources (OERs) • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Approaches to Open Access
- 13. Every part ofthe scientific method is nowadays becoming an open, collaborative, and participative process: • Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data • Public availability and reusability of scientific data • Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication • Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration Open Science
- 14. • International • Funders,Publishers, SPARC USA, SPARC Europe, UNESCO, etc • National • Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) • National Research Foundation (NRF) • etc • Institutional • Library, Research Office, IP & Copyright Office, etc Levels of Collaboration
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- 18. Library as aStakeholder (1) • Library Management • Strategic planning – increase impact, visibility, ROI • Portfolio for driving OA • Library budget • Subject Librarians • Recommend OA journals for publication, authoritative vs predatory • Assist with publishing process • Data Management Planning • Knowledge of repositories
- 19. Library as aStakeholder (2) • Subject Librarians (cont.) • Copyright, Creative Commons Licensing, Plagiarism, File formats (open), ORCIDs, etc. • Cataloguers • What you put in is what you get out • Metadata NB! • Standardisation - names • Inter-library Loans • Requests helps to prioritise in terms of digitisation
- 20. Library as aStakeholder (3) • Support research • Increase research throughput • Disseminate research output
- 21. For librarians tosurvive • High level of IT competency • Self-learning & lifelong learning • Analytical & critical thinking skills • Collaborate
- 22. • Targeted interventioninto National System of Innovation (NSI) – focus on: • Quality, quantity, worldwide visibility of research publications • Fostering of new generation highly competent & productive scientists, scholars • Recommendations re publishing & funding of SA research ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Unit (SPU)
- 23. Quality, Quantity, Visibility(1) Selected journals indexed by SciELO South Africa, Web of Science portal (58)
- 24. Quality, Quantity, Visibility(2) Increase in dissemination & usage
- 25. Quality, Quantity, Visibility(3) SciELO South Africa included in DHET list of accredited indices Norwegian Registry for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
- 26. Quality, Quantity, Visibility(4) Applying best practise
- 29. Fostering new generationscholars (1) • Webinars (ORCID, Creative Commons, OJS) • Training & consultancy (OJS) • A-Z resource of scholarly publishing https://academyofsciencesa.wikispaces.c om • Workshop on Good Practise Publishing (CrossRef)
- 30. Fostering new generationscholars (2) • National Code of Best Practice in Editorial Discretion and Peer Review for South African Scholarly Journals • National Scholarly Editors Forum Meeting (NSEF) • SciELO South Africa User’s Group Meeting • Building capacity …
- 32. Recommendations re funding •Measuring impact (Bibliometrics) • DHET Research Output Policy … • Peer-review panels: evaluation of books & conference proceedings • Peer-review of journal titles • National Site Licensing project
- 33. SA Scholarly JournalLandscape (1) • Feb – April 2015 • 303 DHET accredited journal titles (incl. DHET, WoS, IBSS) (2 discont.) • 58 titles indexed by SciELO SA • 146 Open Access (59 on Directory of Open Access Journals)
- 34. • 279 titleshave a web page (154 have online ISSN) • 65 titles indexed by WoS (20 on SciELO SA) • 41 listed on IBSS • 115 indexed by Scopus • 163 titles peer-reviewed by ASSAf • 47 titles published by Taylor & Francis • Next: Status re DOIs, ORCIDs, APCs SA Scholarly Journal Landscape (2)
- 35. Total of 31nationally; 16 universities (2 275 internationally) SA Scholarly Repository Landscape
- 36. Next … • Partof workflow • Consistent growth • Accreditation • Trusted Repository • Financial sustainability • Organisational viability • Technological & Procedural suitability • Administrative responsibility • Etc. • Standardisation …
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- 47. Thank you! Ina Smith PlanningManager, ASSAf ina@assaf.org.za