Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories: A case...Sukhdev Singh
National Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as OpenMED@NIC . It has MeSH® based subject categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking OpenMED@NIC as a case – this paper discusses key issues in establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and information science professionals can play active role in providing access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response time dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required. Librarians and information science professional can play important role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations. They can take of various roles like – generating awareness among staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity should be grabbed with open hands.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
Opportunities and Challenges of establishing Open Access Repositories: A case...Sukhdev Singh
National Informatics Centre had established a subject repository in May 2005. It is meant for Medical and Allied Sciences and named as OpenMED@NIC . It has MeSH® based subject categorization and this makes it one of its own kind. Taking OpenMED@NIC as a case – this paper discusses key issues in establishing and maintaining an open access repository. Librarians and information science professionals can play active role in providing access and exposure to quality research and academic content generated in their institutions. Mature and standard open sources softwares are now available for setting up repositories. Libraries can install one of these on existing institutional or library servers to setup repositories. However to ensure better access and faster response time dedicated hardware and reliable connectivity would be required. Librarians and information science professional can play important role in exposing intellectual content produced by their organizations. They can take of various roles like – generating awareness among staff, researchers and students about benefits of self arching in institutional or subject repositories; training them in uploading their articles and other documents in such repositories; acting as meta-data editors and repositories managers. Establishing a repository, administrating and inviting authors to deposit their articles and other works in it is golden opportunity available to librarians and information science professionals. This opportunity should be grabbed with open hands.
Open Access: What it is and why it is required for scholarly community?Sukhdev Singh
Introduction to Open Access to scholarly literature. Problems with traditional academic publishing and impact of Internet. Definition of Open Access and models. Why Open Access is required for the scientific and scholarly community? What can bloggers do to support Open Access. Open Access status in India.
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Going for Gold and Greener Pastures: Open Access Explained
Presentation by Lisa Kruesi, Helen Morgan and Andrew Heath from The University of Queensland Scholarly Publishing and Digititisation Service for Open Access Week, October 2012.
This presentation is about Scholarly Communications and how it works, what are ways through one can identify right journals for publications and also briefly discusses preprints as an alternative publications space for making the research more open and visible.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Public engagement while you sleep? How altmetrics can help researchers broade...UoLResearchSupport
Slides from a seminar delivered for pepnet at the University of Leeds 28 Nov 2018. Thanks to Charlotte Perry-Houts for extra content:
From peer reviewed journal articles, to assorted reports and grey literature, to datasets comprising numerical, textual or multimedia files; we generate thousands of research outputs.
In this session, Kirsten Thompson (OD&PL) and Nick Sheppard (Library) will discuss strategies for increasing quality online engagement with that research. We will explore how you can use ‘alternative metrics’, more commonly known as ‘altmetrics’, to monitor such engagement. Altmetrics can help to showcase the reach of your work, supplement grant and tenure applications, identify new audiences, and connect with other researchers in your discipline.
In the age of “fake news”, academics have a responsibility to share their expertise beyond the Ivory Tower. We’ll show you how to ensure all these disparate outputs are properly curated in university repositories with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). There will also be an opportunity to learn about and contribute to the Library led Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM).
How altmetrics can help researchers broaden the reach of their work. Workshop facilitated by Kirsten Thompson and Nick Sheppard at the University of Leeds for the #PepnetLeeds network November 28th 2018.
Open Access Mash-Up: Protecting Your Rights As an Author + Putting the Public...Jill Cirasella
This slideshow is a mash-up of http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/you-know-what-you-write-but-do-you-know-your-rights and http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/open-access-putting-the-public-back-in-publication
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Going for Gold and Greener Pastures: Open Access Explained
Presentation by Lisa Kruesi, Helen Morgan and Andrew Heath from The University of Queensland Scholarly Publishing and Digititisation Service for Open Access Week, October 2012.
This presentation is about Scholarly Communications and how it works, what are ways through one can identify right journals for publications and also briefly discusses preprints as an alternative publications space for making the research more open and visible.
Gives an overview of Open Access Initiatives in India. It covers some Journals, Repositories and other Open Access Initiatives from India. This presentation was made at IGNCA on 1st Feb 2009 in the Seminar on "Digital Preservation and Access to Indian Cultural Heritage with special reference to IGNCA Cultural Knowledge Resources", 31st January - 1st February 2009.
Public engagement while you sleep? How altmetrics can help researchers broade...UoLResearchSupport
Slides from a seminar delivered for pepnet at the University of Leeds 28 Nov 2018. Thanks to Charlotte Perry-Houts for extra content:
From peer reviewed journal articles, to assorted reports and grey literature, to datasets comprising numerical, textual or multimedia files; we generate thousands of research outputs.
In this session, Kirsten Thompson (OD&PL) and Nick Sheppard (Library) will discuss strategies for increasing quality online engagement with that research. We will explore how you can use ‘alternative metrics’, more commonly known as ‘altmetrics’, to monitor such engagement. Altmetrics can help to showcase the reach of your work, supplement grant and tenure applications, identify new audiences, and connect with other researchers in your discipline.
In the age of “fake news”, academics have a responsibility to share their expertise beyond the Ivory Tower. We’ll show you how to ensure all these disparate outputs are properly curated in university repositories with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). There will also be an opportunity to learn about and contribute to the Library led Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM).
How altmetrics can help researchers broaden the reach of their work. Workshop facilitated by Kirsten Thompson and Nick Sheppard at the University of Leeds for the #PepnetLeeds network November 28th 2018.
Open Access Mash-Up: Protecting Your Rights As an Author + Putting the Public...Jill Cirasella
This slideshow is a mash-up of http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/you-know-what-you-write-but-do-you-know-your-rights and http://www.slideshare.net/cirasella/open-access-putting-the-public-back-in-publication
Open Access (OA) is a system provide access to knowledge resources with free of cost and other restrictions. This PPT answer to the questions what, why, types, benefits etc. and also describes the creative commons licensing, concept of predatory journals, open access journals, and Sharpa RoMeO.
This paper reviews and analyzes the impact of Open Access (OA) publishing on medical research work. The aim is to establish, through literature review, how digital resources might provide an opportunity to house future medical scholarship outputs and the advantages or disadvantages versus traditional publishing.
Getting published oa retain rights wntr 14 2ndsbeas1
This is the powerpoint from a lecture on finding a journal in which to publish your work, understanding open access and preserving your rights as an author. Download the file so you can see the notes for the slides.
Academic libraries are increasingly investing in new efforts to support their research and teaching faculty in the activities they care about most. Learn why becoming a publisher can help meet the most fundamental needs of your research community and at the same time can help transform today’s inflationary cost model for serials. We will explore not only why to become a publisher but exactly how to achieve it, step by step, including careful selection of publishing partners, choosing the right platform for manuscript submission and editorial workflow management, one-time processes to launch a new journal, conducting peer reviews, maintaining academic quality, and measuring impact. We’ll also cover the broader range of publishing activities where libraries can have an impact, including open access monographs, general institutional repositories and subject-based author self-archiving repositories. We will close with a review of tools, services, and communities of support to nurture the new library publishing venture.
See accompanying handouts 1-7
Lauren Collister
Electronic Publications Associate, University of Pittsburgh
Timothy S. Deliyannides
Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing and Head of Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh
Open Access & Open Access to Research Articles Act for the Academic Senate at UIS. Covering mostly background information on Open Access and Institutional Repository at the Univ of Illinois with some basic information on the Open Access to Information Act in Illinois. (A more complete presentation with additional information on the Act to follow)
Open Access For Subject Specialist LibrariansMolly.ak
This presentation about open access was given to subject specialist librarians at the University of Michigan on June 9th, 2008. It provides an introduction to open access, describes the various controversies surrounding open access, and offers strategies for faculty and librarians interested in improving access to scholarly work.
This presentation in intended to introduce Open Access (OA); the OA movement; OA advantages for authors, institutions and society; OA business models and publishing in OA; important tools for research and publishing; and other ‘open’ initiatives.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Publishing your research: Open Access (introduction & overview)Jamie Bisset
Open Access: what is it and what do I need to do? (November 2013) slides. Delivered as part of the Durham University Researcher Development Programme. Further Training available at https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/research/training/
Of CUNY, By CUNY, For CUNY: How We All Benefit from Open Access and Why We Al...
Mbmh Seminar Leigh Mantle
1. Exploring Digital Scholarship Improving Access to Scholarly ResearchAdding more fruits and veggies to the Internet Leigh Mantle, RIS Mount Holyoke College
2. Fruits & Veggies Institutional Repositories Open Access Movement Peer Review & Impact Factors Archivists, Librarians & Instructional Technologists Discovery Tools Breaking Down Barriers to [Libraries’] Content
3. Defining Open Access “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” Types: Green = OA Archives or Repositories Gold = OA Journals Gratis = removal of price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) Libre = removal of price barriers and at least some permission barriers (most copyright and licensing restrictions) ~ Peter Suber, SPARC
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5. Users have the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
11. Author holds copyright ~ Journal of Scholarly Publishing & SPARC Open Access Newsletter
12. 5 Myths of Open Access OA journals are free OA publishing weakens or undermines peer review OA means an article is not copyrighted OA will put journals out of business, especially smaller humanities journals published by scholarly societies and university presses Crisis in scholarly publishing does not apply to humanities…it is a problem caused primarily by the inflation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) journals
13. Polling "Scholars like to complain about the quality of information on the Internet, but they should also work actively to ensure that the best of historical writing is available online to the widest possible audience.“ ~ Roy Rosenzweig Director, Center for History and New Media George Mason University Do you support the Open Access Movement? Do you support libraries / our profession being involved in the open access movement?
14. Polling “I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable,” said. “Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they’re going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done.” ~ David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs , Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, October 14, 2009 How would you rate your faculty's interest in open access? How would you rate your institution's interest in open access?
15. Open Access Policy / Harvard Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Law passed February 2008 Harvard policy was adopted by the faculty itself and the vote was unanimous “Faculty members will retain copyright in their articles, and provide an electronic version to the University together with a license to make them available in an open access repository.” The policy will allow Harvard authors to publish in any journal that permits posting online after publication. [“Two-thirds of pay-access journals allow such posting in online repositories” ~Peter Suber] Opt Out Option: "The Dean or the Dean’s designate will waive application of the policy for a particular article upon written request by a Faculty member explaining the need." "It shifts the default so Harvard faculty must make their work openly available unless they opt out. The default at most universities is the other way around: you have to choose open access and arrange for all the provisions.” ~ Peter Suber ~HarvardNews
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17. Do not assume faculty have knowledge of the concept and aims of open access or that they accept “scholarly communication” is in crisis.
18. Start tailored conversations with individual academic departments
19. Be flexible to allow for disciplinary differences
20. Focus on author’s rights ~ College & Research Libraries News
21. Actions Open Access Week Publish an open access journal at your institution Host seminars on OA considerations, i.e. getting published in OA’s journals and addressing peer review & copyright concerns Develop cheat sheet for faculty and administrators Work together on collaborative projects - i.e. IRs, applications, etc Add DOAJ Journals to the library catalog and other discovery tools MBMH Seminar Brainstorm…
22. Collaboration Open Archives Initiative International chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy. Right to Research Coalition SPARC, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition [ARL] Resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication [ARL, ACRL, and SPARC] PLoS, the Public Library of Science, a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making medical and scientific research publicly searchable and accessible. Publishes 7 online peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals.
23. Peer Review “Peer review will be a more productive, more helpful, more transparent, and more effective process if conducted in the open.” ~ Media studies scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick Biology Direct, open access journal Reviewers’ reports are public creating an open peer review process Aim to increase the responsibility of the referees and eliminate sources of abuse in the refereeing process Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, open access journal Rapid review process so papers are made available immediately Interactive public discussion Feedback is used to shape the final version of the paper ArXiv, pre-print archive for scientific papers Endorsement process Facebook application (myarxiv) Tweprints, website collects the tweets that mention papers from the arXiv Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy All entries are refereed by the Editorial Board (over 1,000 entries & continuously updated) “Dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research” Endowment ~ Create Change and Planned Obsolescence
24. Impact Factors Citebase, (beta) an online tool that looks on the fly at how often individual papers are downloaded and cited. Faculty of 1000 uses a stable of thousands of specialists to rate the most important new papers in biology and medicine they read each month from some 800 journals. Eigenfactor “ranking and mapping scientific knowledge” Includes the journal price in its calculation; bridges discipline gaps; adjusts for citation pattern differences across disciplines (which ISI does not); assesses impact based on 5 years of data (as compared with ISI’s 2); and it is free. Hirsch’s H Index It can be applied to journal, author, or group, and assesses quality as well as quantity. In comparison with the ISI Impact factor, The h index corrects for highly cited papers not in highly cited journals. The h-index is based on a scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations to their papers in other people’s publications. Publish or Perish, open source tool that calculates the h index using Google Scholar. ~ Scholarly Publication – MIT Libraries
25. Defining Institutional Repositories (IRs) “The Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Model: ingest (methods to define, describe, document, and authorize the transfer of digital files); data management (the capture, storage, and analysis of metadata); archival storage (infrastructure to protect the integrity of the files at the byte level); access (provided to the user through queries, retrieval, and viewing, or to other applications or archival systems).” ~ “What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories” RUSQ, November 2009 Mike Furlough, Guest Columnist
26. Avoiding the Roach Motel “MIT’s Institutional Repository had international press coverage, but they had to hire a marketing consultant to get their own faculty to use it.” ~ Susan Gibbons, ALA Conference 2005 “We can’t assume we know best, or the library will end up running a repository, i.e., ‘a place in which a dead body is deposited; a vault or sepulchre.’” ~ Johanna Drucker, Chronicle of Higher Education “The success of repositories is connected to the services they can provide to faculty.” ~ 2008 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting
27. DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) University-wide, open-access repository Launched 9.1.2009 Features: Profiles, a research social networking site, which provides a comprehensive view of a researcher's publications and connections within the University’s research community. Automated embargo lift dates, so that a work can be deposited "dark" and then automatically switch to open access once a publisher's self-archiving embargo has expired. PDF header page: when a user downloads a full-text item, DASH generates a header page for the document, giving its provenance and relevant terms of use.
32. Discovery Tools Libraries’ websites Directory of Open Access Repositories (Open DOAR) Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) Search engines Google Scholar Windows Live Academic CiteSeer OAIster database Google Custom Search Engine MBMH Seminar Brainstorm… ~ Stonewall Climbing Gym, Texas
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34. Embed library content, services, and staff within researchers’ regular workflows
35. Discovery of content will happen outside of libraries – but libraries are uniquely suited to providing the organization and metadata that make content discoverable
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37. Bibliography Institutional Repositories: Albanese, Andrew Richard. “Institutional Repositories: Thinking Beyond the Box. Repositories leapt into the national spotlight in 2008. Now what?” Library Journal. 1.March.2009. Web. 20.Oct.2009. Basefsky, Stuart . 2009. "The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries" Research on Institutional Repositories (Irs): n. pag. Web. 29 Nov. 2009. Billings, Marilyn S. "Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape" University of Maine. Orono, ME. Feb. 2008. Web. 20 Oct. 2009. Eschenfelder, Kristin R. “Every Library’s nightmare? Digital Rights Management, Use Restrictions, and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources.” College and Research Libraries 69.3 (2008): 205-223. Print. Foster, Nancy Fried and Susan Gibbons. “Understanding Faculty to Improve Content Recruitment for Institutional Repositories.” D-Lib Magazine 11 .1 (2005): n. pag. Web. 20 Oct. 2009. Jantz, Ronald and Myoung C. Wilson. “Institutional Repositories: Faculty Deposits, Marketing, and the Reform of Scholarly Communication.” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 34.3 (2008): 186-195. Science Direct. Web. 29 Nov. 2009. Mower, Allyson and Lisa Chaufty. “Do Something No One Has Imagined: The 2008 SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting. ” College & Research Libraries News 70.3 (2009): 158-160. Print. Salo, Dorothea. "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel." Library Trends 57:2 (2008). Web. 20.Oct.2009. The Research Library’s Role in Digital Repository Services: Final Report of the ARL Digital Repository Issues Task Force. January 2008. Web. 29 Nov. 2009. Van de Sompel, Herbert, John Erickson, Sandy Payette, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner. “Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve.” D-Lib Magazine 10 .9 (2004): n. pag. Web. 20 Oct. 2009. Walters, Tyler. “Changes in Scholarly Communication: What Repository Programs Can Do for Faculty.”University System of Georgia Faculty Seminar on Scholarly Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology. 6. March.2009. Lecture.
Editor's Notes
Open access to journals – scholarly literature – and will focus on the US and lean more toward the humanities, though you really can’t talk about OA without mentioning the sciencesNot going to cover copyright issues, digital rights management, technological protection measures (TPM), Google Book Settlement, open education movement (educational content that is available on the World Wide Web free of charge) though I did include some sources on these issues in my complete bibliography, which will be posted to the blog