open access projects and libraries
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Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia.TRANSCRIPT
Open access projects and libraries
Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.netPresented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact,
April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/transformational-times.pdf
Transformational times
“On the other hand, the economic situation could be favourable to the further development of open access
publishing in Canada.”
Transformational times
“Open Access publication mandates may well be adopted by the funding councils…
Data preservation will also likely be more widely mandated.
Systematic enforcement of the mandates will depend on the development of appropriate
repositories, whether disciplinary or institutional.”
Open Access (OA) & libraries
open access has permanently changed
the field of scholarly communication
OA & librariesOpen access has changed
the profile of academic and research libraries– more and more they have become partners
in research, data-curation
and education, ensuring the quality of digital resources is maintained,
and openly sharing these resources with their users
OA & librariesAcademic and research libraries are setting up and maintaining
open access institutional or subject repositories, becoming partners
in open access publishing, and helping to create
open educational resources
OA & librariesAcademic and research libraries
are also developing advanced and enhanced metrics
– a new range of standardized indicators based on reader (rather than author-facing) metrics
and much more still remains to be explored
Open dataAmount of scientific data
is growing every yearAccess, use and curation
of large data sets are becoming increasingly important.
Ensuring open access to the data behind the research literature
will help to build a scholarly communication system that supports the needs of researchers
Open dataAs Open Data moves
to the forefront of scholarly communication, librarians, administrators, and researchers
have to consider new access policies for data and data curation issues
Open dataRaising awareness and understanding of data issues amongst researchers,
providing archiving and preservation services for datasets,
and developing a new professional strand of practice – data librarianship are key
challenges for the library and information science community
OERThe Cape Town Open Education Declaration
defines open educational resources (OER) as "openly licensed course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software and other
materials that support teaching and learning." It goes on to state that these resources should
be "... licensed to facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by
anyone."
OEROER have the potential
to transform the way scholarship is conducted and they are a logical extension
of what the library community supports in the open access movement
Libraries have a role to play in the open education by encouraging the creation and
use of open materials
Changing landscapeIn this changing environment for scholarly communication
academic and research libraries need to be
agile, creative,
risk-taking and innovative
in order to respond to the needs of a new generation of faculty and students
Changing landscapeScience is dynamic and collaborative and it is important
to sustain the communication processes, rather than to simply archive research results
in the form of a single journal article
Changing landscapeLibrarians and information specialists
need to be involved in the early planning and data-modelling phases
of research in order to accelerate learning
and discovery, and libraries will need
to become core collaborators on campus, using technology
to advance scholarly communication and enable a climate of openness
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/repository-services-report.pdf
Thank you!Questions?
Iryna Kuchmairyna.kuchma[at]eifl.net; www.eifl.net
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