Open Access Week @ Ayesha Abed Library

BRAC UniversityOctober 30, 2011

What is Open Access

“Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, original, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open Access removes price barriers (subscriptions, licensing fees, pay per view fees) and permission barriers for scholarly use (most copyright and licensing restrictions) and thus stands for free availability and unrestricted use of scholarly content. ” (Peter Suber)

Peter Suber, A very brief introduction to Open Access

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

Why do we need Open Access?• Research is traditionally disseminated via

journal articles and conference papers• Scholarly research is not freely accessible

under the traditional model of subscription based journals

• Access is inequitable and based on ability to pay

• Research is not being disseminated as widely as it could be

Open AccessAdvantages and Benefits

Benefits for authors

• Open access provides authors with a worldwide audience

• Open access increases the visibility and impact of their work

• Open access widens opportunities for funding and international collaboration

Benefits for libraries• In the long term Open Access may help

alleviate the problem of increasing journal subscription costs

• Open access helps libraries provide what their readers need

• Open access helps libraries to work closely with authors and other parts of the university to make the research output more visible

Benefits for universities• Increases the visibility and impact of the

research being carried out in an institution

• Institutional repositories provide a show-case for a University’s research

• Open access is a major tool in attracting new students and staff to a university

• Open access helps universities to share their knowledge and expertise

Vehicles of Open Access• Institutional Repository

– No peer review– Institutional or disciplinary– Preprints and postprints– Interoperable through OAI protocol – Open-source software– Easy to launch, no waiting, low investment

• Open Access Journals– Peer review– More difficult to launch or convert

• Other– Personal web sites, ebooks, blogs, wikis, listservs, P2P,

RSS

The current state of Open Access

• Over 7,200 open access journals listed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (October 26 2011)

• Over 2100 repositories listed by the Directory of Open Access Repositories (October 10 2011)

• New mandates and policies being announced regularly

• Publishers engaging with open access in a variety of ways

Source: http://www.opendoar.org/ (October 26, 2011)

2011-10-10

2100 repositories

2010-12-15

1800 repositories

2010-1-28

1500 repositories

2008-11-26

1200 repositories

2007-11-19

900 repositories

2006-9-5

600 repositories

2006-3-22

300 repositories

Open Access@BRACU Library

Open Access Repository @BRACU Library

dspace.bracu.ac.bd

Total Visit per Month

July 2011

Aug 2011

Sep 2011

Oct2011

Top country views

BRAC Business School (BBS)

Total Item 77

88 55 63 131 China (90), Bangladesh (76), USA ( 37), Russian Federation (16), UK(12) Germany (9), Japan (4), Hong Kong (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (2)

School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS)

Total Item 207

47 55 62 114 China (65) Bangladesh (44) USA (18) Russian Federation (17) Germany (14), Brazil (4),UK(4) Italy (4), Ukraine (4), Japan (3)

English and Humanities (ENH)

Total Item 83

25 34 75 61 China (69), Bangladesh (30), USA ( 21), Russian Federation (13) Germany (8), Brazil (2), UK( 2), Sweden (2), Hong Kong (1) Iran (1)

Institute of Governance Studies (IGS)

Total Item 81

27 35 49 51 China (66), USA( 33), Russian Federation (19), Germany (10), Bangladesh (8) UK(2), Hong Kong (2), Japan (2), Sweden (2), Kuwait (1)

Department of Architecture

Total Item 22

21 32 39 99 * China( 87), USA( 21), Russian Federation (16), Germany (9), Bangladesh (6), UK (3), Japan (3), Ukraine (2), Canada (1), Hong Kong (1)

Total Visit per Month

July 2011

Aug 2011

Sep 2011

Oct2011

Top country views

James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH)Total Item 21

30 37 62 62 China (90), Bangladesh (76), USA ( 37), Russian Federation (16), UK(12),Germany (9), Japan (4), Hong Kong (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (2)

BRAC Development Institute (BDI)Total Item 20

23 33 35 76 China (87), USA (19), Russian Federation (160), Germany (14), Bangladesh (8) UK (30), Japan (2), Brazil (1), Hong Kong(1), Sweden (1)

Centre for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP)Total Item 66

35 37 49 70 China (87), USA (20), Russian Federation (17), Germany (14), Bangladesh (8), Italy (3),UK (2), Japan (2), Ukraine (2), France (1)

Economics and Social Sciences (ESS)Total Item 7

28 35 42 72* China (88), USA (21), Russian Federation (17), Germany (14), Bangladesh (9), Japan (4) UK( 2), Ukraine (2), Hong Kong(1), Sweden (1)

Department of Mathematics and Natural Science (MNS)Total Item 6

19 33 42 71 China (84), USA( 20), Russian Federation (16), Germany (14), Bangladesh (5), Japan (4), Sweden (3), UK( 2), Canada (1), Hong Kong (1)

Open Access@BRACU Library

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)• DOAJ - www.doaj.org

- An indexing service for OA journals. - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. - Lists 7,200 journals, Currently 3357

journals can be searched at article level - As of today 6,54,335 articles are included

in the DOAJ service.

Open Access Journal@BRACU Library

References• SHERPA Project: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

(includes advocacy materials and the SHERPA/RoMEO database of publisher policies)

• Directory of Open Access journals: http://www.doaj.org

• Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org

• Peter Suber’s Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

• INASP for supporting the workshop

Thank You