Mang’ira, Roselyne, PhD and Midigo, Richard Omolo at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015

1. JKUAT CASE ON OPEN ACCESS
PRESENTERS
Mang’ira, Roselyne, PhD
Midigo, Richard Omolo

2. HOW JKUAT HANDLES OA
 INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
 Have developed and adopted an IR Policy (2012) that stipulate data
harvesting
 JKUAT has established Digital Institutional Repository for handling
Research outputs and any other documents meant for OA. These
include:
Publications / articles
Theses and Dissertations
Conference papers
Public Lectures
Speeches
 Now mandatory for PG students to deposit verified soft copy in PDF
to the library before they graduate.

3. Cont’…
 JKUAT UNIVERSITY AND LIBRARY WEBSITE
 Promote OA by providing links to open
databases e.g. CABI; OPENDOAR; Open data
provided by science direct, springerlinks
 Through the website, we promote new open
data by creating alerts, provide e-list of open
data, etc

4. How Open Data is channel
Use of Social media where we have dedicated
a librarian to monitor and respond to any
arising issues e.g.
Face book to communicate any new information
on OA to users and they give their feedback;
Twitter

5. Cont’…
 Workshop/ Training/ Seminars for users
 Sensitize them on the existing Open data during such
training for different groups of library users.
 Use this forum to sensitize on benefits of OA (visibility,
citation, curb plagiarism, Encourage to publish on open
access, to submit their work without fear for uploading on
IR since they are more secure there, etc)
 Deliberate move has been made such that OpenDoar data
forms part of e-resources that are being marketed
 As we promote purchased/subscribed e- resources, we
ensure that we also talk about open access data that are
given as a package by suppliers e.g. from science direct and
inform that they are authoritative/ authentic

6. Cont’…
Online tutorials
We have come up with video / documentaries
purposely to market open data, etc. This is
place strategically on the face of the library
website

7. CHALLENGES FACING JKUAT
Lack of infrastructure such as:
 Heavy duty scanners to digitise back files
 Servers that provide adequate storage space
Archiving cost projection (Difficult to estimate
future available data)
Perception and mindset about the authenticity of
open data (many regard as low quality)
Poor reward system e.g. no monetary attached,
no promotion, etc

8. Challenges Cont’…
Failure to implement developed policy in totality
Lack of coherent comprehensive policy
documents, e.g. JKUAT has adopted Digital
Repository Policy but lacks Open Access policy
Intellectual property Rights: Most authors
unknowingly or knowingly have given publishers
all ownership rights and are unable to access
those documents freely
Authors have to pay some amount to publish on
open access Journals, hence becomes a deterrent
factor

9. MATERIALS USED TO ADVOCATE FOR
OPEN ACCESS
Posters for DOAJ/DOAB
JKUAT DIGITAL REPOSITORY POLICY

10. RECOMMENDATIONS
Institutions should undertake a deliberate move
to increase allocation of funds to purchase
infrastructure (scanners, servers, etc) and/or
outsource services
Directive from the CEO that research output be
made visible through creating accounts with
Google scholar, creating links through institution
website, uploading work to IR
Institutions should accept to meet publishing cost
on open access journals

11. END OF PRESENTATION
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ASANTE SANA