Discover Open Access with QScience.com Institutional Repositories Ken Scott Associate Library Director - Access and Media Services
Discover Open Access with QScience.com
Institutional
Repositories
Ken ScottAssociate Library Director - Access and Media Services
Open Access Movement
• Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration
(February 2002)• Open access journals/books – Gold Route Open Access
• Self-archiving – Green Route Open Access
– Personal websites
– Scholarly repositories
» Institutional repositories of academic institutions
Copyright and Repositories
• Transfer of copyright to publisher usually part
of the publishing agreement
• Preprint/postprint – usually OK to self-archive
• Publisher’s version PDF – approval required
Retaining Selected Rights
SPARC Addendum“SPARC is an international
alliance of academic and
research libraries working to
create a more open system of
scholarly communication”
www.sparc.arl.org
Institutional Repository Software
1225 sites
468 sites
168 sites
Open Archives Initiative Protocol
(OAI) compliant software ensures
machine-to-machine interface provides
effective harvesting of metadata by
search engines such as Google.