Presentation at the launch of the third series of workshops for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme at the University of Namibia in June 2012

1. Global OA Policy in the
Mainstream
Policy workshop, University of
Namibia
22 May 2012

2. UNam Research Strategy
• A commitment to Open Access and an innovation
policy for industry partnership
• Aims to be locally relevant by addressing local
research needs while remaining internationally
competitive and engaged
• Recognizes the importance of collaborative
interdisciplinary research as a key to
international competitiveness
• Strives to balance teaching and learning and
research loads to ensure effective research
performance

3. Open Access is now in the mainstream

4. What does this mean in terms of
institutional and national policy
development?

5. A changing context – International
organisations

6. UNESCO OA Initiative

7. UNESCO Policy Guidelines
• Primary focus on journals, ‘green’ and ‘gold’
routes
• “Peer reviewed publications’ are the basis
• Acknowledges the problem of ‘grey’ literature
• Associated policies – IP policy
– Licensing
– policy for author publication contracts (‘addenda’
toolkits)

9. The World Bank adopts OA

10. World Bank guidelines
• Using open licences (CC-BY) to encourage
take-up and reversioning of publications
• Requiring OA deposit of all publications
(including books)
• Requiring deposit of books published by
outside publishers on a CC BY ND licences

11. FAO – publication and ‘translation’

13. A changing context – national and
regional governments

14. UK Research Council

15. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/856/85602.htm

16. The UK
government
hires Jimmy
Wales of
Wikipedia to
advise on
national OA
policy
WiLLGT09 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
WiLLGT09

17. South Africa
The Green Paper for post-school education and training

18. Intellectual Property Policy

19. IP for Public Justice

20. http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration

21. Institutional IP policy – JISC guidelines

22. http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/intellect_property.pdf

23. Policy implications in an African
context
• Is there likely to be a shift away from the
current scientometrics towards alternative
measurement of research performance?
• What are the implications for publishing policy
and practice at institutional and national
levels?
• What needs to be done about IP policy
development and updating?

24. Measures of national innovation
• Will there be a change in the expectation of
patent and copyright production as the core
measures of research contribution?
• In that situation, what are the measures that
we would like to see – what do we want to
measure?
• What reward systems to we need to put in
place to back up our strategies?

25. What do we measure?

27. Altmetrics

29. Google Scholar Metrics

30. Will this help us align our strategic
research goals with a wider range of
measures?

32. URLs
• UNESCO OA Strategy
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/
CI/images/GOAP/OAF2011/213342e.pdf
• World Bank OA Strategy
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/1620074
0/world-bank-open-access-policy-formal-publications
• JISC Draft Institutional IP Policy
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2009/scai
prtoolkit/3draftiprstatement.aspx

33. URLs contd
• FAO CIARD publication strategy
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/i
mages/GOAP/OAF2011/6.2_Rudgard.pdf
• Altmetrics
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
• Total Impact
http://total-impact.org/about
• IP for Public Justice
http://infojustice.org/home