The document discusses open access and the role of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in improving the quality, visibility, and access of South African scholarly research. It notes that much South African research was previously invisible internationally due to lack of indexing in databases. ASSAf now evaluates journals for quality, and includes high-quality open access journals in the SciELO SA platform to increase their visibility internationally and citations. This aims to advance innovation and inform society by disseminating South African research more broadly.
A strategic approach to scholarly research in South Africa - S Veldsman (ASSAf)Rhodes University Library
A Strategic Approach to Scholarly Research in South Africa presented by S Veldsman at the Open Access Symposium - Rhodes University Library on 21 October 2014.
A strategic approach to scholarly research in South Africa - S Veldsman (ASSAf)Rhodes University Library
A Strategic Approach to Scholarly Research in South Africa presented by S Veldsman at the Open Access Symposium - Rhodes University Library on 21 October 2014.
Presentación en Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especilizadas 27 y 28 de mayo de 2014, organizado por SISIB U. de Chile.
http://bibliotecas.uchile.cl/congreso/programa/index.html
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
A Academy of Science of South Africa publicou dois estudos empíricos sobre comunicação científica, um sobre periódicos científicos (2006) e o segundo sobre livros científicos (2009). Ambos fizeram recomendações significativas para a formulação de políticas. A criação do SciELO África do Sul foi vista pela Academia como uma resposta em atenção ao pedido do governo para a implantação das recomendações dos dois estudos. Essa plataforma de acesso aberto serve como base para o fortalecimento do impacto, da visibilidade e qualidade dos periódicos sul-africanos, e, deste modo, aumentar o impacto do trabalho científico de um país emergente. Junto com o Departament of Higher Education and Training, a Academia está auxiliando na implantação da “politica e procedimentos para a mensuração da produção de pesquisas das instituições públicas de educação superior”. A interação entre o SciELO SA e as políticas sul-africanas para a pesquisa e a comunicação científicas e os incentivos relacionados serão discutidos.
The Academy of Science of South Africa has published two evidenced based studies on scholarly communication, one on scholarly journals (2006) and the second on scholarly books (2009). Both made significant recommendations for the development of policy.
The establishment of SciELO South Africa was seen by the academy as a key response to government’s request to implement the recommendations of the two studies. This OA platform serves as the basis for strengthening the impact, visibility and quality of South African journals and hence to enhance the impact of scholarly work from an emerging country.
Together with the Department of Higher Education and Training, the Academy is assisting with the implementation of “the policy and procedures for the measurement of research outputs of public higher education institutions”. The interaction between SciELO SA and South African policies on research and scholarly communication and the related incentives will be discussed.
La Academia de Ciencias de Sudáfrica ha publicado dos estudios basados en la evidencia sobre la comunicación académica, uno en revistas científicas (2006) y el segundo en los libros académicos (2009). Ambos hicieron recomendaciones importantes para el desarrollo de la política.
El establecimiento de SciELO Sudáfrica fue visto por la academia como respuesta clave a la solicitud del gobierno para poner en práctica las recomendaciones de los dos estudios. Esta plataforma AA sirve de base para el fortalecimiento del impacto, la visibilidad y la calidad de las revistas sudafricanas y por lo tanto para mejorar el impacto de la labor académica de un país emergente.
Junto con el Departamento de Educación Superior y Capacitación, la Academia está colaborando en la aplicación de “la política y los procedimientos para la medición de los resultados de la investigación de las instituciones públicas de educación superior”. Se discutirá la interacción entr
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
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Invited Talk: Open Access: Promises and Reality
Speakers: Mr. Peter E SIDORKO, University Librarian, HKU; Mr. Fred CHAN, Research and Data Services Librarian, HKU
Time: 10:00-10:30, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2015.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/talk-sidorko/
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A talk given at ISIS on 27 January 2009.
There is a growing interest amongst scientists, funders, and the general public in widening access to the results of publicly funded research. At the same time there is a growing realisation that the promise of exploiting the World Wide Web for research can only be fully realised if the underlying resources; data, samples, and process description, are available for use, re-use, and modification. Some scientists are responding to this by exploring the idea of making the whole research record openly available; most researchers are dabbling with or ignoring the possibilities while a significant minority are actively hostile to the idea of Open Research. Some funders are moving ahead with policy changes in advance of the development of tools and practices while others are adopting a “wait and see” approach.
In this talk I will explore the recent large gains made by the Open Access research publication movement and in particular the role of funders and the implications this has for the related movement advocating the benefits of the public availability of research data. I will describe the technical and cultural issues associated with “Open Notebook Science”, an approach in which the aim is to make the full record of research openly available. A recent success using this approach to “crowd-source” the collection of data and its visualisation and analysis will be described and the implications for how research is carried out discussed. Finally I will outline how STFC could take a leadership role in promoting the wider availability of the outputs of the research we fund while taking account of the concerns and needs of users and other stakeholders.
From the webinar presentation "Data Science: Not Just for Big Data", hosted by Kalido and presented by:
David Smith, Data Scientist at Revolution Analytics, and
Gregory Piatetsky, Editor, KDnuggets
These are the slides for David Smith's portion of the presentation.
Watch the full webinar at:
http://www.kalido.com/data-science.htm
Presentación en Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especilizadas 27 y 28 de mayo de 2014, organizado por SISIB U. de Chile.
http://bibliotecas.uchile.cl/congreso/programa/index.html
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
A Academy of Science of South Africa publicou dois estudos empíricos sobre comunicação científica, um sobre periódicos científicos (2006) e o segundo sobre livros científicos (2009). Ambos fizeram recomendações significativas para a formulação de políticas. A criação do SciELO África do Sul foi vista pela Academia como uma resposta em atenção ao pedido do governo para a implantação das recomendações dos dois estudos. Essa plataforma de acesso aberto serve como base para o fortalecimento do impacto, da visibilidade e qualidade dos periódicos sul-africanos, e, deste modo, aumentar o impacto do trabalho científico de um país emergente. Junto com o Departament of Higher Education and Training, a Academia está auxiliando na implantação da “politica e procedimentos para a mensuração da produção de pesquisas das instituições públicas de educação superior”. A interação entre o SciELO SA e as políticas sul-africanas para a pesquisa e a comunicação científicas e os incentivos relacionados serão discutidos.
The Academy of Science of South Africa has published two evidenced based studies on scholarly communication, one on scholarly journals (2006) and the second on scholarly books (2009). Both made significant recommendations for the development of policy.
The establishment of SciELO South Africa was seen by the academy as a key response to government’s request to implement the recommendations of the two studies. This OA platform serves as the basis for strengthening the impact, visibility and quality of South African journals and hence to enhance the impact of scholarly work from an emerging country.
Together with the Department of Higher Education and Training, the Academy is assisting with the implementation of “the policy and procedures for the measurement of research outputs of public higher education institutions”. The interaction between SciELO SA and South African policies on research and scholarly communication and the related incentives will be discussed.
La Academia de Ciencias de Sudáfrica ha publicado dos estudios basados en la evidencia sobre la comunicación académica, uno en revistas científicas (2006) y el segundo en los libros académicos (2009). Ambos hicieron recomendaciones importantes para el desarrollo de la política.
El establecimiento de SciELO Sudáfrica fue visto por la academia como respuesta clave a la solicitud del gobierno para poner en práctica las recomendaciones de los dos estudios. Esta plataforma AA sirve de base para el fortalecimiento del impacto, la visibilidad y la calidad de las revistas sudafricanas y por lo tanto para mejorar el impacto de la labor académica de un país emergente.
Junto con el Departamento de Educación Superior y Capacitación, la Academia está colaborando en la aplicación de “la política y los procedimientos para la medición de los resultados de la investigación de las instituciones públicas de educación superior”. Se discutirá la interacción entr
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
University Futures, Library Futures: aligning aligning academic library servi...Constance Malpas
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Collection Management and GreenGlass at UCD LibraryUCD Library
Presentation given by UCD Library's Collections Support Librarian Catherine Ryan at 'Collection Management: Sharing Experiences' Joint Seminar organised by CONUL Collections and CONUL Training and Development, 24th October, 2018 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
Invited Talk: Open Access: Promises and Reality
Speakers: Mr. Peter E SIDORKO, University Librarian, HKU; Mr. Fred CHAN, Research and Data Services Librarian, HKU
Time: 10:00-10:30, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2015.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/talk-sidorko/
Modern research metrics and new models of evaluation have risen high on the academic agenda in the last few years. In this session two UK institutions who have adopted such metrics across their faculty will share their motivations and experiences of doing so, and explain further how they are integrating these data into existing models of review and analysis.
A talk given at ISIS on 27 January 2009.
There is a growing interest amongst scientists, funders, and the general public in widening access to the results of publicly funded research. At the same time there is a growing realisation that the promise of exploiting the World Wide Web for research can only be fully realised if the underlying resources; data, samples, and process description, are available for use, re-use, and modification. Some scientists are responding to this by exploring the idea of making the whole research record openly available; most researchers are dabbling with or ignoring the possibilities while a significant minority are actively hostile to the idea of Open Research. Some funders are moving ahead with policy changes in advance of the development of tools and practices while others are adopting a “wait and see” approach.
In this talk I will explore the recent large gains made by the Open Access research publication movement and in particular the role of funders and the implications this has for the related movement advocating the benefits of the public availability of research data. I will describe the technical and cultural issues associated with “Open Notebook Science”, an approach in which the aim is to make the full record of research openly available. A recent success using this approach to “crowd-source” the collection of data and its visualisation and analysis will be described and the implications for how research is carried out discussed. Finally I will outline how STFC could take a leadership role in promoting the wider availability of the outputs of the research we fund while taking account of the concerns and needs of users and other stakeholders.
From the webinar presentation "Data Science: Not Just for Big Data", hosted by Kalido and presented by:
David Smith, Data Scientist at Revolution Analytics, and
Gregory Piatetsky, Editor, KDnuggets
These are the slides for David Smith's portion of the presentation.
Watch the full webinar at:
http://www.kalido.com/data-science.htm
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High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017
Esta apresentação visa a fornecer uma visão geral do estado do acesso aberto na África, considerando tanto a rota dourada quanto a verde. Explora o nível de desenvolvimento dos repositórios institucionais, bem como dos periódicos de acesso aberto no continente. Também destaca os principais desafios que os editores enfrentam na publicação de seus periódicos na África.
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Be seen! Be cited! Have impact! Open Access and the Academy of Science of SA (ASSAf)
1. Be Seen!
Be Cited!
Have Impact!
Open Access and the Role of the
Academy of Science of South
Africa
Ina Smith, Louise van Heerden
22 October 2014
1
2. What is Open Access?
Open Access is the free, immediate, online
availability of research articles, coupled
with the rights to use these articles fully in
the digital environment.
3. Why Open Access?
• Research is expensive
• Publishing on WWW comes at minimal cost
• OA accelerates the pace of scientific
discovery, encourages innovation, enriches
education, stimulates the economy
5. Open Access Saving Lives
Fifteen-year-old high school student Jack Andraka has created a pancreatic
cancer test that is 168 times faster and considerably cheaper than the gold
standard in the field.
7. “Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of
sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the
creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then
lay intellectual property landmines behind us to
inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to
that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits
against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our
technology.” – Elon Musk, CEO
9. Open Access Influencing Policy
2013 Article published in Food
Control (Elsevier)
27 Feb. 2013 uploaded
12 Nov. 2013 984 downloads
13 May 2014 1 534 downloads
21 Oct. 2014 1 950 downloads
21 Oct. 2014 15 citations
10.
11.
12. Open Access Routes
• Green: Institutional Repository (IR)
Submit a 2nd copy of research output (articles), theses,
dissertations, data sets, open educational resources
(OERs), etc.
• Gold: Open Access Journal Titles
- Publish in OA journal titles
- Offer OA journal hosting service
13. Institutional Repository
• Central online archive
• Collecting, digitally preserving, and
disseminating digital copies of the
intellectual output (research) of an
institution
• More accessible (open), more researchers,
more impact
14. Institutional Repository Landscape
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) 3 817 (SA 43)
Directory of Open Access Repositories
(OpenDOAR)
2 600+ (SA 24)
Webometrics Ranking Web of Repositories 1 983 (SA 22)
16. Open Access Journal
• Peer-reviewed
• Serve as forum for introduction and
presentation for scrutiny of new research &
critique existing research
• Available online to reader without financial,
legal, technical barriers
19. SA Open Access Scholarly
Journal Publishing Landscape
HMPG
11
AOSiS
26
AOSiS
26
ASSAf
47
ASSAf
47
SU
20
SU
20
AJOL
86
AJOL
86
Sabinet
95
OASPA
Non-OASPA
HMPG
11
Sabinet
95
20. Institutional Scholarly Journal
Publishing Landscape
Example: Stellenbosch University
Open Access 59
Subscription 47
Total 106
http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNJournals/list
21. THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
(ASSAf)
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) receives funding from the
Department of Science and Technology, along with the NRF, CSIR, HSRC
and the SA National Space Agency.
(Universities in turn receive funding from DHET)
ASSAf’s Mission:
Using science for the benefit of society
23. THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
(ASSAf)
The 2006 Academy of Science of South Africa’s Report on a Strategic
Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa revealed the invisibility of
South African Research
24. INVISIBILITY
-Papers published in 60 SA journals received not even 1 citation in
any of the 9 000 WoS (TR) journals over a 15-year period
-About 75% of SA scholarly research is not internationally visible or
accessible
•Of the 270+ South African scholarly journals accredited by DHET,
only ±70 are indexed in the Web of Science (Thomson Reuter)
(formerly known as ISI) academic citation index
25. INVISIBILITY (continued)
•Journals from Africa & the Middle East comprise 1% of the Web of
Science
•Furthermore, articles (journals) published by commercial publishers are
not available to researchers who cannot pay for the subscription fees
which renders them invisible to the majority of South Africans
-Journals that are mainly print based are not accessible via the Web
-Quality of the content was very low at the time – not adhering to
international standards
26. RESPONSE FROM GOVERNMENT
•Department of Higher Education & Training (DHET): Encouraging journals to
adhere to international editorial standards. ASSAf now evaluated the quality
of SA journals for accreditation purposes on behalf of DHET
•Department of Science & Technology (DST): The creation of an open
access collection with optimal indexibility to promote South African
scholarly research through enhanced visibility of and easier access to South
African research, leading to higher citation rates and greater collaboration.
DST & DHET approached the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) for help
27. DST & DHET approached the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) for help.
Within the countries’ National System of Innovation (NSI) ASSAf’s Scholarly
Publishing Programme has been mandated to focus on the
QUALITY
VISIBILITY
ACCESS
INDEXIBILITY of peer-reviewed South African scholarly publications
28. ASSAf
EVIDENCE-BASED
REPORTS
for decision making
SPP
(Scholarly Publishing
Programme)
REPORTS
e.g.
Report on Research
Publishing in SA
Review
National Scholarly Peer Review Panels
Book Study Editors’ Forum Online Scientific
Writing
SciELO SA
29. 1st – QUALITY
Towards a new quality assurance system in SA
• In 2009 DHET approached ASSAf to undertake the quality evaluation of
the content of South African journals
• ASSAf is facilitating the external peer reviewing of SA journals
• Aim: To establish their quality and their role in the nation’s knowledge
capital and to provide journals with advice on how to improve their
journals
30. Improving the quality of South African journals
PEER-REVIEWING OF SA JOURNALS
– +/- 270 SA journals divided into broad subject (discipline) groups
– ASSAf has appointed panels and reviewers (from the ASSAf
membership or other experts in the field)
– Formulated process guidelines and editor questionnaires
– Published 6 Reports: Social Sciences; Agriculture; Theology; Health;
and Law
– Rolling out the 8 groups as by end-2014
31. 2nd VISIBILITY
Increasing visibility of SA scholarly research
• Based on the Recommendations of the ASSAf Report on a Strategic
Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa DST decided on the
creation of an open access collection to improve the visibility of SA
publications both locally and internationally
• The collection would include SA journals recommended by the ASSAf
Peer Review Panels for inclusion in the collection
• The creation of a an open access SA collection is a service to the
South African research community towards the development of a
knowledge economy and new innovation in South Africa
32. 2nd VISIBILITY
Increasing visibility of SA scholarly research
• ASSAf selected the SciELO publishing model
• In 2009 the SciELO SA open access platform was established
• Currently: 45 titles in the collection
• The journals that are peer-reviewed by ASSAf and indicate proven
quality (peer review, international indexing) are invited to join the
SciELO SA collection
• Aim: to invite ± 180 titles out of 270 SA journal titles to join the
collection
33. WHAT IS SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library
Online) ?
•A digital library of open access journals
•Portal to all the SciELO articles
•A cooperative electronic publishing model aimed at developing
countries
•Originally from Brazil, currently in 12 countries with
3 more in development
34. WHY SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) ?
Open access
South African research becomes searchable through the SciELO
network portal which feeds into the Web of Knowledge portal
Exchange of metadata with other international databases
Designed for the needs of developing countries
The SciELO Network focuses on promoting the scientific publications
from countries in the South, whereas the well-established ‘Web of
Science’ has until recently been focused mainly on the scientific
publications of developed countries in the North.
35. ORIGIN OF THE SciELO INDEX
Scientific American, v.237, p.76-83. 1995
Research from developing countries are being excluded from the
WoS/TR (JCR) indexing and citation system
Few journals of developing countries are read in or outside their country
36.
37. So in line then with the mandate of the
Academy of Science of South Africa
to apply scientific thinking
in the service of society
one of these “Service to Society” projects is the creation of an
open access full-text database
of prestigious academic South African journals to improve access & visibility
38. • Managed by the Academy of Science of SA
• Mainly funded by the Department of Science & Technology
• Partially funded and endorsed by the Department of Higher Education
& Training
• Only high quality journal are included (ASSAf Peer Review Panels)
• Strengthens the scholarly journal evaluation and accreditation systems in
South Africa
44. INCREASE IN VISIBILITY OF PRINT-ONLY
JOURNALS
Journal title
Articles viewed
From 2010 to date
South African Orthopaedic Journal 136 951
Kronos: Southern African Histories 60 254
Psychology in Society (PINS) 32 678
45. 4th INDEXABILITY – MAXIMIZING LINKS
The creation of optimal links
from SciELO Journals to the
main international databases
increases the visibility and
citations of these journals on
national and international
levels
46. SciELO IS WELL OPTIMISED FOR SEARCH
ENGINES – AN EXAMPLE
47. IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS TO ENSURE
CONTINUED QUALITY ASSURANCE, VISIBILITY AND
ACCESSIBILITY FOR SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALS
• SciELO SA collection certified in April 2013
• Included on the Web of Knowledge platform
• Have a signed a Memorandum of Agreement with DHET to quality peer review
ALL South African journals
• Proposed change in the DHET policy for the automatic accreditation of SciELO
SA journals for subsidy purposes. Waiting for final notification from Parliament for
2015 publications
48. ACTION
•Encourage researchers to publish in open access journals
•Encourage editors to join ASSAf’s National Editor’s Forum
49. Ina Smith, Planning Manager: SciELO SA
Louise van Heerden, Operations Manager: SciELO SA
www.assaf.org.za