Partnering with Faculty / researchers to Enhance Scholarly Communication

Caroline Mutwiri

Print based ◦ Books◦ Journals

Subscription based (toll-access model)◦ Profit making ◦ Restrictions-pay- per- view (books & journals)◦ Access University consortia‘s not individual

libraries

Perpetual access-not guaranteed (access to current subscriptions).

Economic Trends in Scholarly Publishing

◦ High journal subscription cost◦ Shrinking library budgets / information

explosion◦ Libraries, universities, and scholars unable to

purchase the publications necessary for research and education.

Inaccessibility to scholarly publications

Invisibility of research

An alternative to the traditional subscription-based publishing model

OA intended to be free for readers not for producers.

Free availability of scholarly research literature on the public Internet –

OA focuses on academic research OA literature has minimal or no restrictions

-price or permissions OA literature is online

Literature that authors give to the world without expectation of payment. – career advancement-recognition, citation-promotion

Publicly funded research –fair return to the public on research funded with taxpayers' money

Institutional funded research- pay twice-fund researchers, library purchases

(SU funded research)

OA journals-Scholars can publish in OA journals (gold road)◦ e-journals that are freely available◦ Mirror quality assurance practices-Peer review,

copy-editing

◦Let authors retain the copyright to their articles and use the Creative Commons Attribution License

Researcher self-archiving in OA archives or repositories (green road)

◦ Institutional repositories-are digital archives of intellectual products created by the faculty, staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and without the institution, with few if any barriers to access

◦ Role- capture, centralize, preserve & disseminate a university’s collective intellectual capital

Best way to provide OA to institutional research output

A country’s research is more accessible to global researchers

Increases the return on investment of the funders of the research-universities, governments

Institutional Visibility and Prestige-indicators of an institution's academic quality◦ Showcase◦ Preserve &disseminate intellectual output in an easier, more

varied way◦ Complement existing metrics for gauging institutional

productivity Society benefits from the open exchange of ideas-

economy, public health,policy making all depend on access to & use of information

Researchers-their research is given much wider dissemination increasing the visibility, usage & impact of their findings

Students - able to access and use the full text of all the research published not just the research available to them via the subscriptions their institution can afford.

Building open-access repositories for their institutions

Providing enhanced access to OA works◦ Participating in the creation of IR metadata

Digital publishers of OA works Librarians can digitize OA versions of Out-

of-Copyright Works Librarians Can build specialized OA

Systems- Dspace, greenstone, e-print

Helping to create sensible IR policies and procedures

Designing the IR user interface so that it is clear, easy to use and effective.

Depositing digital materials for faculty in their subject areas

Training users in IR deposit and searching procedures

Demonstrate to scholars the benefits of wider exposure via open access

Publishing in OAJ’s and restrict the copyrights transferred to private publishing companies.

Consider launching an OA journal in areas of specialization

Self-archiving in an-OAI-compliant archive or repository

Adopt policies encouraging or requiring faculty to fill the institutional archive with their research articles (self-archiving policy)

Adopt a policy: faculty who publish articles must either (1) retain copyright, and transfer only the right of first print and electronic publication, or (2) transfer copyright but retain the right of postprint archiving

Adopt a policy: all theses and dissertations, upon acceptance, must be made openly accessible through the specific institutional repository

Adopts a systematic plan to promote OA-newsletter Demand that university-funded research be made

available to community free of charge

Adopt a policy: all conferences hosted at your university will provide OA to their presentations & proceedings, even if the conference also chooses to publish them in a priced journal or book

Consider joining Dspace federation-those using dspace

Support, reward, faculty who publish in OA Require that any articles to be considered in a

promotion and tenure review must be on deposit in the university's OA repository

Sign major declarations-Budapest Open Access Initiative & Berlin Declaration on Open Access to knowledge.

Each institution build / create their repository

Enable various libraries to share their resources

Institutions try and make their repositories open

Many universities and individual researchers have been slow to adopt open access -limited number of universities worldwide having established institutional repositories to facilitate deposit of research by their faculty. ◦ Kenyan universities slow- indicator- web metric

rankings- based on institution’s web presence Many conventional publishers actively

oppose open access- fear cutting profits

Establishing OA requires active commitment by all parties involved-administrators, faculty, librarians, students

Universities must be aware of the (r)evolution taking place in scholarly communication and influence it as much as possible, for the benefit of their own organizations and global scientific and scholarly communities