Gaining the Momentum: Open Repositories in Transitional Countries Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access Program Manager, eIFL.net Presented at Sofia 2008 conference, November 13, 2008
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1. Gaining the Momentum: Open Repositories in Transitional
Countries Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access Program Manager, eIFL.net
Presented at Sofia 2008 conference, November 13, 2008
2. From John Wilbanks, Science Commons, (Data integration, text
mining, and the culture of control)
3. Digitage Web 2.0 Uploaded by ocean.flynn ,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/315385916/
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5. On the Road Manuscript Uploaded by Thomas Hawk http :// www
. flickr . com / photos / thomashawk /93819794/
6. Why Open Access
In this world libraries are no more just reading rooms and
collections of books on the shelves
From importers of knowledge they turn into exporters of
knowledge
Libraries as publishers and educators
7. Mission of eIFL.net
eIFL.net stands for Electronic Information for Libraries
Enabling access to knowledge through libraries in developing
and transition countries
Access to information is essential in education and research
and has a direct impact on the development of societies
8. 4200 libraries in 48 countries
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria,
Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Croatia,
Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia,
Georgia, Ghana,
Jordan,
Kenya, Kosova, Kyrgyzstan,
Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique,
Nepal, Nigeria,
Palestine, Poland,
Russia,
Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland,
Syria,
Tajikistan,
Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
Zambia, Zimbabwe
9. eIFL.net programs
Open access publishing and the building of open repositories of
local content
Advocacy for access to knowledge: copyright and libraries
Promoting free and open source software for libraries
1+1=More and better. The benefits of library consortia
Promoting a culture of cooperation: knowledge and information
sharing
Advocating for affordable and fair access to commercially
produced scholarly resources
10. eIFL Open Access
After three years, the eIFL Open Access Program has emerged as
the leading organization promoting and advocating for Open Access
in developing and transition countries
For the developing world, Open Access will increase scientists
and academics capacity to both access and contribute to the global
research community
11. eIFL Open Access
eIFL-OA seeks to enhance access to research , thereby
accelerating innovation and economic development in the
countries
eIFL-OA Program
builds networks of Open repositories and Open Access journals
;
provides training and advice on Open Access policies and
practices ;
empowers library professionals, scientists and scholars,
educators and students to become open access advocates
12. eIFL Open Access
Policy level Open Access mandates at the national, regional,
institutional levels
Awareness raising promoting benefits of Open Access
Level of implementation open repositories and Open Access
journals
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14. Open Access in numbers
OAIster currently provides access to 18,370,955 records from
1034 contributors.
3 742 journal titles (about 15% of all scientific journals
published) in DOAJ, 2.2 new journals per day
About 20% of all current research literature is available in
Open Access
(From The European Repository Landscape Inventory Study into
the Present Type and Level of OAI-Compliant Digital Repository
Activities in the EU by Maurits van der Graaf and Kwame van
Eijndhoven
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18. ~66% of publishers, 90 - 95% of journals allow
self-archiving
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21. Content
Peer-reviewed articles
Conference presentations
Books
Course packs
Annotated images
Audio and video clips
Research data
22. Content
Gray literature :
Preprints / working materials / theses and dissertations /
reports / conference materials / bulletins / grant applications /
reports to the donors / memorandums / statistical reports /
technical documentation / questionnaires
23. Moldova
24. Lithuania
25. Lithuania
the Lithuanian ETD Project as a Pilot for Baltic States
designed in the framework of a UNESCO programme, prepared by Kaunas
University of Technologies and the Lithuanian Network of Academic
Libraries (LABT) in 2004.
14 Lithuanian universities and Riga Technical University
participated in the ETD Information System project.
The ETD project was supported by the academic communities and
the Ministry of Science and Education, and included in the national
programs.
The Lithuanian ETD Information System ( http:// etd . elaba .
lt / ) includes 6 150 full-text dissertations, of which 2 386 (38%)
are Open Access, others are accessible in the local intranets. It
is planned that at the end of year 2008, ETD IS will cover 7 600
dissertations, and 50% of these should be Open Access.
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27. Theses and dissertations
John Hagen, West Virginia University :
Moving from print to electronic usage growth 145%
The most popular theses and dissertations were downloaded
37,501 times (history ) and 33,752 times (engineering); history one
was published and was a long seller
69% of students from the creative writing department had more
successful careers if they went OA with their dissertations a good
marketing tool for them
28. Bulgaria
29. Estonia
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31. Russia
32. Slovenia
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37. Costs
The costs and benefits of our Institutional Repository:
Running costs: the server costs us R50 000 ($6250) once every
three years
Running costs: handle license and Red Hat Enterprise Server
Licence $100 per year
Salaries prove to be a high running cost: 1 full-time IR
librarian, 1 full-time IR library assistant, 2 full-time librarians
working on IR together with other duties, 1 part-time librarian
working on IR together with other duties
South Africa
Ukraine 10,000 USD
38. Benefits
Value of benefits: at this stage the IR does not generate extra
income or save administration costs it actually generates more work
and more administration costs. Functions such as metadata editors,
content submitters, collection administrators demand extra work
from staff
The function of the IR is not to have monetary benefits, but to
showcase research done at an institution, provide open access to
research, prestige for the academics, institutional visibility as
well as immediate access to research
The IR also provides long-term preservation benefits
South Africa
39. National Policy - Ukraine
Since January 2007 Ukraine has a law - proposed mandate for
open access to publicly funded research.
The Law of Ukraine On the principles of developing information
society in Ukraine for 2007-20015 at www. rada . gov . ua
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42. National Policy - China
Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (CHINA)
http://www.most. gov . cn /eng/
http://www. codataweb .org/06conf/
Mandate to deposit research data (not yet applicable to
research articles themselves)
43. National Policy - China
Hong Kong Universities proposed Open Access policy for publicly
funded research
44. National Policy - Lithuania
Discussing Open Access to publicly funded research as a
national law
Director of SPAR Europe travelled to Vilnius in early May to
meet with the decision makers in Lithuania to help them move
further with adoption of a draft law
Ministry of Education organised a national Open Access
awareness raising seminar during International Open Access Day
45. Russia
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy
of Sciences (institutional-mandate)
http://www. cemi . rssi . ru /
http:// socionet . ru /index-en.html
http:// cemi . socionet . ru /
All researchers of the Central Economics and Mathematics
Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences are mandated by director's
decree to immediately deposit their papers/articles in the
institutional Open Archive. ["...mandate researchers of CEMI RAS to
deposit all completed research (in working paper form), including
the full text, in institutional OA (repository) not later than 6
months after completion."] http://www. cemi . rssi . ru / rus
/news/ initiat -eng. htm
46. Russia - e-Science
CRIS
research e- infrastructure - http :// socionet . ru /
e-Science
e- Science is based on the Open Access to research results
(financed from the public money) Sergey Parinov
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48. Repository efficiency
Shared technical infrastructure and distributed management
team
National/Regional projects
49. Repository standards
DRIVER Guidelines metadata formats and other technical
requirement
DRIVER validator
eIFL Partnership with DRIVER developing strong national
infrastructures
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55. Open Access Impact
The advantages of Open Access are shown in the figures,
especially when it comes to increased citation rates :
For 72% of papers published in the Astrophysical Journal, free
versions of the paper are available (mainly through ArXiv). These
72% of papers are, on average, cited more than twice as often as
the remaining 28% that do not have free versions. [1]
In Chinese scientific journals citation indicators of Open
Access journals were found to be higher than those of non-Open
Access journals. [2] [1] Schwarz, G. and Kennicutt Jr., R. C.
(2004): Demographic and Citation Trends in Astrophysical Journal
Papers and Preprints (pdf 14pp), arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0411275, 10
November 2004, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol.
36, 1654-1663
[2] Cheng, W. H. and Ren, S. L. (2008): Evolution of open
access publishing in Chinese scientific journals, Learned
Publishing, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 2008, 140-152
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57. Open Access Impact
literature mining is good
data integration is better
open access access to full text is needed
Lars Juhl Jensen, Integration of biomedical literature and
databases, Presented at the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly
Communication NCSC 2008: Openness - trade, tools and transparency,
21-23 April 2008, Scandic Star Hotel, Glimmervgen 5, Lund, Sweden:
http://www. lub . lu .se/ fileadmin /user_upload/ pdf
/NCSC/ncsc2008_ lars _ juhl _ jensen . pdf
58. Open Access Impact
John Houghton, Colin Steele and Peter Sheehan in their report
to the Department of Education, Science and Training Research
Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and
Benefits mentioned the most important potential benefit of Open
Access enhanced access to, and greater use of, research findings ,
which would, in turn, increase the efficiency of R&D as it
builds upon previous research.
59. Open Access Impact
Among other benefits:
Speed of access speeding up the research and discovery process,
increasing returns to investment in R&D and, potentially,
reducing the time/cost involved for a given outcome, and increasing
the rate of accumulation of the stock of knowledge;
Improved access leading to less duplicative research , saving
duplicative R&D expenditure and improving the efficiency of
R&D;
John Houghton, Colin Steele and Peter Sheehan, Report to the
Department of Education, Science and Training Research
Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and
Benefits http://www. dest . gov .au/NR/ rdonlyres
/0ACB271F-EA7D-4FAF-B3F7-0381F441B175/13935/DEST_Research_Communications_Cost_Report_Sept2006.
pdf
60. Open Access Impact
Faster access leading to better informed research , reducing,
saving R&D expenditure and improving the efficiency of
R&D;
Wider access providing enhanced opportunities for
multi-disciplinary research , inter-institutional and
inter-sectoral collaborations ;
John Houghton, Colin Steele and Peter Sheehan, Report to the
Department of Education, Science and Training Research
Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and
Benefits http://www. dest . gov .au/NR/ rdonlyres
/0ACB271F-EA7D-4FAF-B3F7-0381F441B175/13935/DEST_Research_Communications_Cost_Report_Sept2006.
pdf
61. Open Access Impact
Wider access enabling researchers to study their context more
broadly , potentially leading to increased opportunities for , and
rates of, application/commercialization ;
Improved access leading to improved education outcomes ,
enabling a given education spend to produce a higher level of
educational attainment (at least at the post secondary level),
leading to an improvement in the quality of the stock of
researchers and research users .
John Houghton, Colin Steele and Peter Sheehan, Report to the
Department of Education, Science and Training Research
Communication Costs in Australia: Emerging Opportunities and
Benefits. http://www. dest . gov .au/NR/ rdonlyres
/0ACB271F-EA7D-4FAF-B3F7-0381F441B175/13935/DEST_Research_Communications_Cost_Report_Sept2006.
pdf
62. Open Access Policy
Funders of research are increasingly beginning to mandate Open
Access to the research they support
According to the Registry of Open Access Repository Material
Archiving Policies there are 57 Open Access mandates
Major research funders
the U.S. National Institutes of Health, implemented a policy
requiring that its grant recipients make articles resulting from
NIH funding publicly available within 12 months of publication in a
peer-reviewed journal
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65. Open Access
While Open Access was only defined six years ago
it is now being debated by governments and publishers
and mandated by funding bodies and universities throughout the
world
Much still remains to be achieved, but it is clear that Open
Access has permanently changed the field of scholarly
communication
66. Thank you ! Questions ? Iryna Kuchma eIFL Open Access
program manager iryna.kuchma[at]eifl.net; www.eifl.net The
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