TropMed Central Antwerp ITM Research Output Accessible To All? Kris Didden, Library ITM, June 10th 2009.

TropMed Central Antwerp

ITM Research Output

Accessible To All?

Kris Didden, Library ITM, June 10th 2009

TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All?ITM Seminar June 10th 2009

Outline

Introduction

Background Serials crisis

© Consequences of copyright transfer by author

Open Access as a solution?

TropMed Central Antwerp (TMCA) + Harvesters Live demonstration

Request from the library

Impact of TMCA: usage statistics and citation advantage

Selected list of links and literature


Introduction

WHAT? Repository = digital archive

Similar to ITG Staff Publications database, but full text is free of copyright restrictions

International network of repositories (universities, research institutes…)

WHY? Collect, preserve and disseminate research output

Improve the visibility of the Institute’s scholarly publications Centralize its contents and metadata Self-archive the research output and provide open access to it Preserve digital grey literature


Background – SERIALS CRISIS

Authors’ criteria for publishing research results Peer review: quality assurance Publish in and cite from journals with high Impact Factor

(SCI)

Market evolution Monopoly of commercial publishers Increase in volume and number of titles of scientific literature Specialization: new journals High quality journals in demand



Top journals should be included in library collections Remark 1: median journal price change (2000-2006)*

* Sources: Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-2006, LISU; Statbel

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

Biomedical Titles Social Science Titles

%

Blackwell

Cambidge UP

Elsevier

Lippincott

Nature

Nature excl.

Oxford Journals

Sage

Springer

Taylor & Francis

Uni Chicago

Wiley

Inflation rate EU



Remark 2 Average annual journal price changes (2000-06) – print subscriptions

Commercial publishers (median journal prices) : 10% U.S. society-published journals (nonprofit): 7.1% Average annual inflation rate (Belgium) for the same period: 2.1%

Different average % change per type of access E.g. U.S. society-published journals (2005-06)

Print only (avg. for 140 journals) 6.9% Print & online combined (avg. for 110 journals): 16.2%

Different tax rates for print and online subscription (Belgium) Print subscriptions: 6% Online subscriptions: 21%

* Source: 19th Annual Pricing Study of Society Journal Prices, The Newsletter for Journal Publishers, Allen Press (2007)



OKAY, BUT:

1.Increase of journal subscription prices

2.Library budgets have not kept the same pace over the years, while more and more face budget cuts anno 2009

Access to scientific literature at stake? Hard nuts to crack: no new titles? No online

subscriptions? Cut back subscriptions in exchange for new ones?


© Background – COPYRIGHT TRANSFER

Transfer of exploitation rights for electronic publishing

Right to publish

Right to make reproductions

Right to distribute

Exceptions: research, education


© Background – COPYRIGHT TRANSFER

Consequences for authors (individual) Dissemination E-mail to colleagues? Education E-learning environment Research use Personal use Private copy? Future reuse Single or continuous access? Preservation Deposit in a repository? Protection of copyright Plagiarism?

Consequences for libraries (institutional) Dissemination Internal, external (e.g. Docdel)? Access guaranteed? What after end of subscription? Reproduction Photocopying/scanning? Long-term preservation? Self-archiving?


Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION?

Open Access

“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”

“give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited”



Open Access Initiative Declarations/statements of principles for institutions, governments

and authors:

Basic idea: no copyright or financial barriers “research, funded by public means, is a public good and the results should therefore be freely accessible to the public”

Endorsed by c. 500 universities, research institutions, government councils, funding agencies, NGO’s, libraries

Budapest (2001) Open Access to peer-reviewed research literature

Bethesda (2003) Open Access publishing

Berlin (2003) Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities



1. Publish in Open Access Journals – Gold Road

Peer-reviewed © remains with the author Restrictions depend on the author’s / publisher’s preferences

Creative Commons licences ‘Libre’ vs. ‘Gratis’ ‘Pure’ Gold vs. hybrid vs. delayed open access



1. Publish in Open Access Journals – Gold Road

Peer-reviewed articles deposited in TMCA (2000-May 2009)(Source: DOAJ)

191 articles published in OAJ (av. 10%, 2008: 21,4%)

114 articles published in JIF-OAJ (av. 6%, 2008: 12%)

13% of all journals in which ITM authors have published is an OAJ

136 ITM authors have published in an OAJ

26% of them have published 33-100% of their articles in an OAJ



2. Self-archive Articles - Green Road1. Publish article in traditional (‘toll-access’) journal

2. Archive the author version in a subject or institutional repository in compliance with publisher’s archiving policy

>90% of journals accept some form of self-archiving

RoMEO COLOR ARCHIVING POLICY

GREEN can archive pre-print and post-print

BLUE can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing)

YELLOW can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)

WHITE archiving not formally supported



2. Self-archive Articles - Green Road

Articles in TMCA (2000-May 2009) - Publishers’ archiving policies

WHITE5%

YELLOW27%

BLUE5%

GREEN36%

OPEN ACCESS10%AP UNKNOWN

17%




Repositories

Open source software (DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, Open Repository)

“Digital libraries” but with full text linked Include research output (peer-reviewed articles, other

document types), theses, learning objects… Subject-based, institutional (private organizations, academic,

research institutes), OA Journals… Global: >1400 Belgium: 25




Repositories: can quality be guaranteed?

Funding agencies (NIH, Wellcome Trust, FWO,…) Peer-review is mandatory

Self-archiving only after publication in journal

“Success of repositories will lead to journals’ demise”


TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

Software: DSpace Open-source software: database/metadata, archival storage (35

forms of content (text, image, video…)), web user interface, search/browse, OAI metadata providing service, handle server

Contents of TropMed Central Antwerp ITM research output (articles, letters, editorials, issues, books,

chapters, dissertations, documents, guidelines) & ITGPress publications

2000-present: 2424 items Regularly updated by the library Metadata + full text



Structure Repository







Collections: document types (2000- May 2009)

COLLECTION DOCUMENT TYPE #

ARTICLES ARTICLE 1856

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS BOOK 41

CHAPTER 358

ISSUE 10

GUIDELINES 35

CD-ROM 5

DISSERTATION 64

DOCUMENT 51



ITEM RECORD

1. Permanent and unique link to the record

http://hdl.handle.net/10390/2243

http://hdl.handle.net/ system that redirects handle to original URL of the digital object

10390 unique handle number of TMCA

2243 unique number of record





ITEM RECORD

2. Bibliographic description

Dublin Core Metadata Schema Author, title, journal name, publisher, subject, type of

publication, abstract etc. Extra metadata (mostly links) added whenever available:

Pubmed ID, DOI, URL





ITEM RECORD

3. Statistics: number of item views

From December 2008 onwards On monthly basis





ITEM RECORD

4. Link to full text (‘bitstream’)

Link/filename: Publisher PDF or Author version (PDF) Size: KB, MB Format: 35 formats (text, application, image, video, audio) Statistics on number of times downloaded




TropMed Central Antwerp - Demonstration

http://dspace.itg.be


TropMed Central Antwerp – Full text

Full text coverage – complete collection

29%

15%

96%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

ARTICLES BOOKS & CHAPTERS ITGPRESS

%



Distribution of full text per ITM department

18,7

31,4

18,6

34,6

47,8

67,9

5,6

0

14,3

3,9

32,5

77,8

0,0

10,0

20,0

30,0

40,0

50,0

60,0

70,0

80,0

90,0

ANIMAL HEALTH CLINICAL SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH INTERDEPARTMENTAL

ARTICLES %

BOOKS & CHAPTERS %



Ultimate goal: 100% full text coverageBUT:

Practical problems: size, document type (cd-rom, book) Publishers’ archiving policies (AP)

Books & chapters: mostly non-existent (exc. ITM…) Articles

“Green”, “yellow”, “blue” publishers “White” publishers, AP unknown: self-archiving not allowed Depositing publisher PDF accepted by some publishers

(Some impose embargo: 6-24 months)

June 1st 2009 Total collection 28.5% full textArticles (total article collection):

29% full textArticles (that may be archived): 40% full text



Full text coverage of articles in TMCA (as of June 1st 2009)

322; 17%

44; 2%

94; 5%

848; 47%

536; 29%

6; 0%

Full text

AP know n: request

NOT - "w hite"

NOT - "not available"

NOT - AP unknow n

NOT - URL only


TropMed Central Antwerp – Request

REQUEST



1. Search your personal archive for every digital article, chapter or other publication

2000-2008 Author version (PDF or Word)

NOT Publisher PDF

2009-… Author version AND Publisher PDF



2. Send the articles to [email protected]

3. Library will check, filter and add the documents to the metadata in TMCA and ITG Staff Publications database



Why contribute to TropMed Central Antwerp?

Copyright / archiving Better control over your own publications

‘Moral obligation’ towards ‘funders of research’ (institution and the public)

No extra work! (OK, hardly…) Promotion

Researcher = author and reader Improved visibility of research output


TropMed Central Antwerp – Harvesting

Interoperability of database leads to improved visibility and accessibility

Internet search engines: Google, Live, MSN, AOL, Yahoo Scientific search engines: ‘harvesters’

HARVESTERS CREATED BY CONTRIBUTORS # DOCS

European Commission

>200 European repositories

≈ 1 mio docs

EC + Gent Uni 9 Belgian repositories

>30,000 docs

Michigan Uni >1,120 repositories, OA publishers etc.

≈ 22 mio docs

Bielefeld Uni Library

>1,240 repositories, OA publishers etc.

≈ 20 mio docs


TropMed Central Antwerp - Demonstration

DRIVER (EU) http://www.driver-repository.eu

DRIVER (BE) http://www.driver-repository.be

OAISTER http://www.oaister.org

BASE http://www.base-search.net


TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics

Impact of the repository

Usage statistics

Citation advantage?



Number of visits (Dec 27th 2007 - May 31st 2009)

Jan 1st – May 31st 2009: 17.9 visits / day



Pageviews & downloads per month (Jan 1 – May 31 2009)

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5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

30000

January February March April May

# pageview s

# dow nloads



Visitors: Dec. 27th 2007 – May 31st 2009

42% of all visits were made by returning visitors (i.e. who have consulted TMCA before)



Visitors: Dec. 27th 2007 – May 31st 2009


TropMed Central Antwerp – Citation advantage?

Citation advantage?

Indications that improved visibility, i.e. higher hit counts (HTML) and more downloads (PDF), leads to higher citations

Believers vs. non-believers


TropMed Central Antwerp

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!


TropMed Central Antwerp – Selected information

General

Suber, P 2007, Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints [Internet]. Richmond: Earlham College; c2004-2006 [last update 2007]. Available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Chan, L., Swan, A. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: practical steps for implementing Open Access [Internet]. [S.l.] [last update 11 April 2009]. Available from: http://www.openoasis.org

Bibliographies

Bailey Jr., C. W. Open Access Bibliography: liberating scholarly literature with e-prints and Open Access Journals [Internet]. [S.l.]; 2008. Available from: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm.

Open Citation Project. The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. Southampton; University of Southampton; Available from: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html.

Implications and opportunities for researchers

Swan, A. 2006, The culture of Open Access: researchers’ views and responses. In: Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Chandos. Available from: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/.

Kuchma, I. 2009, Open Access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Advanced and enhanced metrics. The evidences that Open Access leads to advancement of science and research. [presentation]. Available from: http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/training/2009-pretoria/open-access-for

Open Access declarations

Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm Berlin Declaration on Open access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities:

http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html


TropMed Central Antwerp – Selected websites

Repositories active in the same field as or working with ITM

Pubmed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Scielo http://www.scielo.org/ MSF Field Research http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/ Search4 dev – Digital documents by Dutch development organizations:

http://www.search4dev.nl/ WHO SEAR Institutional Repository http://repository.searo.who.int/ DSpace@ICDDR,B http://dspace.icddrb.org/dspace/ Institutional Archive of Ghent University https://archive.ugent.be Lirias https://lirias.kuleuven.be/

Harvesters

Driver EU www.driver-repository.eu/ DRIVER BE

www.driver-repository.be/default.aspx OAISTER www.oaister.org BASE www.base-search.net/

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