We find inspiration abroad

Systémy pro zpřístupňování eVŠKP, 21.10.2009 Brno

Ing. Jan Mach, [email protected] of Economics, Prague

We find inspiration abroad

Ing. Jan MachUniversity of Economics, Prague



9th International Bielefeld Conference

Upgrading the eLibrary: Enhanced Information Services Driven by

Technology and EconomicsBielefeld, 3. – 5. února 2009



Information about the Conference

• There were 370 participants from all over the world

• Full version of the programme with names of speakers, presentations and audio records of talks can be found on the website of the conference

• http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/











European Universities and Open Access

Sijbolt J. Noorda,European University Association,Open Access Working Group, UK



• what doesn’t exist in the digital mode (cannot be found by search machines) has less chance to be used, quoted and valued - “make your work digitally traceable, searchable, harvestable”

• repositories should be interconnected and standardized (search machine friendly), whether managed by institution, nation or academic discipline



OA: Simple concept, complicated reality• a matter of digital access and visibility [searchable,

harvestable]• of business [contracts, licenses, paying and pricing]• of quality management [peer review, citations and

rankings]• of reliable archives [preservation, continuity and

authenticity]• of e-science and e-learning [digital innovations and

virtual labs]• of customer diversity [various academic, business and

professional cultures]



• Harvard Arts and Sciences Faculty & Law Faculty voted for open access to scholarly articles (a mandatory open access policy to each faculty member’s scholarly articles)

• „The Harvard Open-Access Policy“„The MIT Open-Access Policy“

• EC open access pilot project– EU-funded research made freely available online – http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/open

access



Automatic Enrichment of Metadata

Alexander MehlerUlli Waltinger



• Mapping Texts onto the DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) by Exploring OAI-Snippets and searching for keywords in texts

• Utilization of the Wikipedia category system in order to perform semantic searches



Search Engine Federation in Libraries

Silke Schomburg and Jörg Prante"hbz" (Academic Library Center),

Cologne



• Unified search of library resources created by the association of libraries

• Problems solved: the results can be obtained within one second, unified identifiers, common query language, ranking, priorities, clustering

• technical background: web services - REST, HTTP, XML, Unicode; Context Query Language - CQL; filtering; facety; kontext – optional, based on linguistic analysis

• open project, other persons interested are welcome



Europeana: Connecting Cultural Heritage

Elisabeth NiggemannDeutsche Nationalbibliothek,

Frankfurt a. M.



• providing access to Europe's cultural and scientific heritage through a cross-domain portal; co-operating in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal; stimulating initiatives to bring together existing digital content; supporting digitisation of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage;

• most of local portals are being developed in the framework of EU funded projects;

• will be launched in 2010 with links to over 6 million digital objects;



IR Also Means Institutional Responsibility

Leo WaaijersIndependent Consultant,

The Netherlands



OA means access to• research results -> knowledge • that are peer reviewed -> quality controlled• well preserved -> permanent

access• internet distributed -> prompt access• for free re-use -> no access

barriers• with attribution -> no plagiarism



Why OA?

• Corporate Social Responsibility

• Citation advantage (Harnad, 2004)

• Science advancement

• Abuse protection (plagiarism)

• Eases reproduction, reduces duplication

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html



• Berlin Declaration, October 2003

• EC-petition, February2007

• European University Association, March 2008



• Recently the European University Association recommended their 800 members to „develop institutional policies and strategies that foster the availability of their quality controlled research results for the broadest possible range of users, maximizing their visibility, accessibility and scientific impact.“

• So far only 60 institutions have published results of their scientific research.



What is needed?

• Open Access mandate

• Independent review system

• Interoperable repository



The Ultimate ContractYou, (your name here,) herby grant the entire, complete

rights to everything you’ve ever thought, made, or done to Acme Co., in perpetuity and throughout the Universe that leads to a whole new non-Universe place; or it somebody invents a time-stopping machine so there’s no longer “perpetuity,” or if everything falls into a black hole and nobody knows which end is up and we’re all dead anyway so who cares, we’ll STILL own the rights, so stop you belly-aching, sign or don’t sign, but GROW UP, THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS, PAL. (your signature)



ETD 2009Bridging the knowledge divide

12th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Pittsburgh, June 10. – 13., 2009



Cathedral of Learning



About the ConferenceOver 200 researchers, librarians, graduate school

administrators and information technology professionals from 23 nations

• An illustrated edition of the ETD2009 Conference Summary

• The ETD2009 Conference Proceedings• The ETD2009 Conference videos of plenary

sessions

16.-19. June, 2010: University of Texas at Austin



Poster

National repositories of ETDs and Grey Literature in the Czech Republic

Projects, organisations, metadata, experiences, issues

Jan Mach, Iva Horová

Available online



Workshops• newcomers

– tutorials, ETD implementation and political strategies, repository models, the role of University libraries (The Guide for ETDs)

• Distributed Digital Preservation for ETDs– NDLTD/MetaArchive distributed digital preservation network

• Adobe Acrobat 9– - advanced PDF creation, media incorporation, accessibility,

security, and archiving capabilities



Conference sessions

• Platforms/Demos

• Open Access

• New Trends

• Collaboration

• Global Outreach



Platforms, demos• OpenThesis.org: A Universal ETD Database

with Search, Organization, Collaboration and Print Capabilities

• NDLTD VTLS Visualiser• EThOS• training materials, tutorials (e.g. how to create

PDF)• ETD systems on Universities

(e.g. Ex Libris Digitool 1, 2 or DSpace)







Nové trendy

• Topical Categorization of Large Collections of ETDs (Ed Fox)

• Using statistics (e.g. project Pirus – metric Counter)

• Using SRU to Create Dissertation Mashups



Open Access

• the metamorphosis of an ETD collection to an open access repository at Humboldt University Berlin

• reasons for ETDs restrictions (1, 2)

• „The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies“



Cooperation

• MetaArchive (directories, 6 copies)

• DART-Europe E-theses Portal



Global Outreach

• World Digital Library – UNESCO, LoC (video)

• China – biggest population, censorship, 3 aggregators



Welcome speach

John Hagen

West Virginia University Libraries



Experience from WVUOpen Access options:• World • Campus Only • Campus Encrypted (only printed) • No AccessLibrary service: ETD printing for 15 USD72% PDF, 28% multimediaForm with check-ups and access control options:



Open Access Publishing

• I want the broadest possible dissemination of my work, and I want to provide free global access to the electronic copy of my work via the internet.

• I understand that I will not be eligible to receive royalties.



SELECT PUBLISHING RESTRICTIONS• No restrictions

- I want my work to be available as soon as it is published.- I want people to be able to buy a copy of my work via commercial retailers (if I chose Traditional Publishing above).- I want major search engines to discover my work.

• Restrictions required- I do not want my work to be available immediately.- Delay access to my work for the following length of time:– 6 month embargo– 1 year embargo– 2 year embargo



Integrating Universities' Thesis and Research Deposit Mandates

Stevan Harnad



What is Open Acces?• Free,• Immediate• Permanent• Full-Text• On-Line• Access

ETDs are with some exceptions the most suitable category of university and scientific works for Open Access

Some students may want to publish their works in book form.

The works may contain some borrowed texts.



Why Open Access?• To maximise the uptake, usage, applications and impact

of the research output of your university

• To measure and reward the uptake, usage, applications and impact of the research output of your university (research metrics)

• To collect, manage and showcase a permanent record of the research output and impact of your university

… by maximising the accessibility of research



Jak?

OA Metrics motivate OA Mandates

And OA mandates maximize OA Metrics



The earlier you mandate Green OA, the sooner (and bigger) your university's competitive advantage





Summary of OA ETDs:OA: How? Universities and funders mandate Green OA self-

archiving

Deposit Where? In universities' own Institutional Repositories (IRs)

Deposit How? A few minutes of keystrokes per paper is all needed for 100% OA

Deposit What? Author's final, approved, defended ETD

Deposit When? Immediately after approved for defence



E-prints software http://www.eprints.org/

Southampton created free EPrints software to allow all universities to create their own institutional repositories very cheaply and easily.

ePrints repositories are all compliant with the OAI Protocol for metadata harvesting.

Only metadata? Ask for a copy – automated e-mail to the author, click on URL to send it.



National Repository of ETDs Theses.cz

The ETDs Working Group initiated the creation of the National Repository of ETDs and negotiated a free-of-charge participation of state universities.

The ETDs Working Group suggests that the OAI protocol be used for data harvesting

The project is not fully supported by MUNI! - missing manuals to the k OAI-PMH import, the export of OAI-PMH is not supported, complicated submitting of ETDs, it does not contain statistics



ROARMAP



We find inspiration abroad

• Open Acess

• we need mandates and licences for open access

• OAI-PMH standard for harvesting

• advanced search interfaces supporting data discovery (SRU, CQL, …)



Thank you for your attention

Jan Mach

www.evskp.cz

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