Global OA Policy in the Mainstream Policy workshop, University of Namibia 22 May 2012
Nov 11, 2014
Global OA Policy in the Mainstream
Policy workshop, University of Namibia
22 May 2012
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
Open Access is now in the mainstream
What does this mean in terms of institutional and national policy
development?
A changing context – International organisations
UNESCO OA Initiative
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)
The World Bank adopts OA
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
FAO – publication and ‘translation’
A changing context – national and regional governments
UK Research Council
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/856/85602.htm
The UK government hires Jimmy
Wales of Wikipedia to
advise on national OA
policy
WiLLGT09
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported WiLLGT09
South Africa
The Green Paper for post-school education and training
Intellectual Property Policy
IP for Public Justice
http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration
Institutional IP policy – JISC guidelines
http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/intellect_property.pdf
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?
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?
What do w
e measure?
Altmetrics
Google Scholar Metrics
Will this help us align our strategic research goals with a wider range
of measures?
URLs
• UNESCO OA Strategy http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/images/GOAP/OAF2011/213342e.pdf
• World Bank OA Strategyhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16200740/world-bank-open-access-policy-formal-publications• JISC Draft Institutional IP Policyhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2009/scaiprtoolkit/3draftiprstatement.aspx
URLs contd
• FAO CIARD publication strategy http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/images/GOAP/OAF2011/6.2_Rudgard.pdf • Altmetricshttp://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ • Total Impacthttp://total-impact.org/about• IP for Public Justicehttp://infojustice.org/home