Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.net Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, October 29 – 30, 2009 University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing, Lilongwe
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Open access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers: new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. Open access for libraries. Maintaining digital repository as a key function for research libraries.
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Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly
Communication Environment
Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.net
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and Impact, October 29 – 30, 2009
University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing, Lilongwe
eIFL.net
4 000 libraries in 46 countries
4 000 libraries in 46 countries
eIFL.net programs
1. Open access
2. Advocacy for access to knowledge: copyright and libraries
3. Promoting free and open source software for libraries
eIFL.net programs 2
4. 1+1=More and better. The benefits of library consortia
5. Promoting a culture of cooperation: knowledge and information sharing
6. Advocating for affordable and fair access to
commercially produced scholarly resources
eIFL-IP: Copyright for libraries to maximize access to
knowledge via libraries for education, research and
the public through fair and balanced copyright laws
that take into account the needs of their users
to raise awareness of libraries
and copyright, and to empower the eIFL.net community to become
advocates and proponents of fair access for all
eIFL-IP: Copyright for libraries 2eIFL Handbook
on Copyright and Related Issueshttp://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-ip/issues/eifl-handbook-on
eIFL-IP Draft Law on Copyright
Including Model Exceptions and Limitations
for Libraries and Consumershttp://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/docs/ip_docs/draft-law
Negotiations eIFL.net is advocating for affordable access
to commercially produced electronic journals and
databases through collective negotiations with publishers
and aggregators
negotiation activity includes not only obtaining affordable
prices, but also establishing fair terms and conditions for
access to those resources by library users in developing and
transitional countries
Consortium building eIFL.net assists the countries
in the building of sustainable national
library consortia
a wide range of activities underpins this goal
including: training events, national and regional
workshops and meetings, individual country visits,
grants, manuals, web resources
eIFL Open Access
eIFL Open Access 2Focus for 2009/10:
Open access policies to be adopted by research
funding agencies, universities and research organisations in eIFL.net
countries
Sustainability of open repositories within the eIFL
region
eIFL Open Access 3Open Access Week, 19-23 October
2009
Advocacy materials for eIFL.net countries
Turning pilot repositories into strong operational tools (open access resources create value through the impact they have
on users)
Watching briefs on open access to data and open educational
resources
eIFL Open Access 4coming soon:
Evaluation of Institutional Repository Development in Developing and Transition
Countries – a cooperative program between eIFL.net, the University of Kansas Libraries, the DRIVER project
and Key Perspectives Ltd
case studies on institutional repositories from eIFL countries
a report on the implementation of open content licenses in developing and transition
countries
Why Open Access (OA)?
Why OA 2?
OA FAQ
What is the difference
between open access literature
and digital, online and free of charge literature?
OA FAQ 2 Digital, online and free for users literature
doesn’t have the price barriers for the users, but still has permission barriers (e.g. registration, copyright and licensing restrictions, no reuse rights). If you are asked to register, provide IP address, or
sign a license, this is not open access. E.g. you might have free access to research literature
via HINARI, AGORA, OARE and other international initiatives because somebody paid on your behalf,
or the publisher was generous to provide free access to you, or this was a result of negotiations.
OA FAQ 3
By 'open access' to literature, we mean its permanent free availability
on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles,
crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose,
without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the
internet itself.
OA FAQ 4
The only constraint
on reproduction and distribution,
and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their
work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited
(open access definition from the Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.
Open repositoriesA digital repository is defined as
containing research output
institutional or thematic
and OAI compliant
(http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html) (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)
Depot 21. a deposit service for researchers worldwide
without an institutional repository in which to deposit their papers, articles, and
book chapters (e-prints)
2. a re-direct service which alerts depositors to more appropriate local services if they exist
arXiv.org
Open Access Impact
Open access brings more rapid and more efficient progress for scholarly research
http://arxiv.org/ “Brody has looked at the pattern of citations
to articles deposited in arXiv, specifically at the length of the delay between
when an article is deposited and when it is cited, and has published the aggregated data
for each year from 1991.”– Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan; Carr, Leslie. Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact. Journal of
the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2005, Vol. 57 no. 8 pp. 1060-1072. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/01/timcorr.htm (accessed 30 October 2006)
– Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? - ECS EPrints ...Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? Swan, A. (2006) Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13028/
Open Access Impact 2“As more papers are deposited and more scientists use the repository,
the time between an article being deposited and being cited has been shrinking
dramatically, year upon year”
Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan; Carr, Leslie. Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact. Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2005, Vol. 57 no. 8 pp. 1060-1072.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/01/timcorr.htm (accessed 30 October 2006)– Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? - ECS EPrints ...Open Access: What is it and why should we have
it? Swan, A. (2006) Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13028/
for research uptake and progress, because it means that in this area of research,
where articles are made available at – or frequently before – publication, the research cycle is accelerating”
Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan; Carr, Leslie. Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact. Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2005, Vol. 57 no. 8 pp. 1060-1072.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/01/timcorr.htm (accessed 30 October 2006)– Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? - ECS EPrints ...Open Access: What is it and why should we have
it? Swan, A. (2006) Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13028/
Open Access Impact 4“The research cycle in high energy physics
is approaching maximum efficiency as a result of the early and free availability
of articles that scientists in the field can use and build upon rapidly”
– Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan; Carr, Leslie. Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact. Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 2005, Vol. 57 no. 8 pp. 1060-1072.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/01/timcorr.htm (accessed 30 October 2006)– Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? - ECS EPrints ...Open Access: What is it and why should we have
it? Swan, A. (2006) Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13028/
1. “submission of articles to an open access subject repository, arXiv,
yields a citation advantage of a factor five”;
(Evidences from Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele and Travis Brooks: Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories: http://arxiv
Open Access Impact 62. “the citation advantage of articles
appearing in a repository is connected
to their dissemination prior to publication,
20% of citations of HEP articles over a two-year period occur before publication”
(Evidences from Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele and Travis Brooks: Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories: http://arxiv
3. “HEP scientists are between four and eight times more likely to download an article in its preprint form from arXiv rather than its
final published version on a journal web site”.
(Evidences from Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele and Travis Brooks: Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories: http://arxiv
Enhanced publicationsPublications combined with research data
Improve interpretation and verification
Promote available data
Browsable network of related items
(from the presentation Enhanced Publications & LTP Connector demonstrators by Paul Doorenbosch, KB Netherlands, at the DRIVER
Confederation Summit)
Scholarly communication
Science is dynamic and collaborative and it is important to sustain the communication
processes, rather than simply archiving
research results in the form of a single journal
article
Open Access“It is important to stress here
that publishing is a fundamental part of the process of doing science.
Moreover, as a scientist I am not writing for money — like my wife, who was a professional writer at one time —
but I am writing for fame: I want everyone to read what I write…
For that reason we volunteer our services, and we don’t get paid.
That is what makes Open Access a powerful concept for scientists.”
The Basement Interviews Freeing the scientific literature Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, former director of the US National Institutes of Health, and co-founder of open access publisher Public Library of Science, talks to Richard Poynder. Published
on June 5th 2006 http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/06/interview-with-harold-varmus.html