Open access repositories for visibility

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1 Open access repositories for visibility Sarifah Abdullah and Nur Aini Abu Bakar IIUM Library Library Innovation Talk (LIT) July 2017 University Kuala Lumpur 1

2 BACKGROUND/ OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES PUBLISHING MODELS FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY (IR) BENEFITS OF IR ISSUES AND CHALLENGES STRATEGIES FOR LIBRARIANS SRATEGIES FOR ADMINISTRATORS 2

3 Changes affecting higher learning institutions Intensive use and delivery of digital resources Serving increasingly heterogeneous student population New mode of studies including ICT-based and distance learning Reducing level of resources on staffing and financial resources National and global research agenda world university ranking, MyRA, MyMOHE, SETARA, etc New publication and scholarly communication 3

4 Changes affecting higher learning institutions Open access movement - opening up research, making it accessible and reusable by all information is regarded as a human right and it should be treated as such where access to information should be made possible for all esp when it is using the public funding by sharing our work, we can stimulate learning, innovation, and new discovery. 4

5 Open access initiatives Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities (2003) Definition of open access published by the Research Information Network (2010): Open Access (OA) means that scholarly literature is made freely available on the internet, so that it can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, text mined, or used for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, subject to proper attribution of authorship. 5

6 Advocates of the open access movement claim that OA will accelerate research in every discipline. There are some indications that papers that appear free online are more frequently cited by other researchers than papers that have restricted distribution. Open access can enhance the attractiveness of the Journal to indexing services as well as increase Journal impact as measured by citation analysis 6

7 Increased citation and usage 7

8 Increased citation and usage 8

9 Greater public engagement Making research freely accessible to public will help increase visibility to attract public engagement it would also be very useful to have a brief summary of the research findings in a plain digestible format for general public and to attract the attention of researchers from other area of specialisations 9

10 Greater public engagement Wider collaboration Increased inter-disciplinary conversation Faster impact OA is increasingly required by funders 10

11 PUBLISHING MODELS FOR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS Traditional model subscription based closed access Platinum open-access = free to author, free to reader Delayed open access = subscription model but OA after some time Gold open access = free to reader, author pays a fee 11

12 Gold versus green open access Gold access - gold route follows the model of traditional journal publication with the difference that the publisher recoups costs from the author and can therefore make it freely available to the public. gold access is usually funded by the research grant or by the author s institution Green access also known as self archiving - where academics/mediators deposit their work in repositories, subject and institutional, which, through indexing by search engines and specialist services, are made available to the world. The green route has created an impact on the information profession as a catalyst for new roles and skills requirements via the growth of institutional repositories. 12

13 Open access versus close access Readers rights Reuse rights Copyrights Authors posting rights Automatic posting Machine readability 13

14 INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IR is now becoming a component of the technical infrastructure in research intensive and non research intensive universities to have their institutional repositories This infrastructure emerged as early as 2002 when many libraries in the US and UK lunched their own IR systems Evidence suggested that institutions benefits from open access through higher usage of their research and that greater visibility of their research can result in higher rankings thus enhancing the profile of the university 14

15 BENEFITS OF IR Ensure long term preservation and storage Facilitates knowledge transfer and open science Small and medium sized enterprises and others who do not have privileges to subscription may access research freely over the web Outputs will be exposed to google scholar and other search engines thus increasing visibility and chances of citation counts promote and provide wider dissemination of access to research and scholarly output improve visibility and accessibility of publications to the outside world increase citations of publications increase webometric ranking promote research linkages/partnerships 15

16 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Content management issues Legal and copyright issues User perceptions and acceptance Name ambiguity and authority control Predatory publishers and journals 16

17 Content issues IR have been described as having four key attributes: i. Institutionally defined ii. Scholarly iii. Cumulative and perpetual iv. Open and interoperable SPARC stressed that it should not duplicate the existing channels of formal scholarly publishing IR is to serve the needs and interests of the institution and the content should be developed with local requirements foremost There is growing appreciation that content in IR should be more diverse incorporating both formal and informal scholarly publications Well suited for various types of gray literature, other fugitive and unpublished materials. Pre-prints and post-prints Working papers Research and technical reports Conference proceedings Newsletters and bulletins Newspapers Technical documentations Articles Monographs Patents etc 17

18 Legal and copyright issues Most legal issues are policy issues for repositories A sound legal relationship with authors depends on sound policies set by the University and by the repository Repositories need to have legal relationships with every stakeholders: the university, each depositing author, third party content owners, and users of content Each repository should have its own conditions of deposit carefully worded not as to scare off the depositors 18

19 Legal and copyright issues Directory of Open Access Journal - searchable database of open access journals in all disciplines SHERPA/RoMEO searchable database of journal and publisher copyright policies SHERPA/JULIET - searchable database of funding agency mandates and requirements 19

20 User perceptions and attitudes on IR researchers awareness on the benefits of OA is still not that high but is gaining acceptance several studies have been conducted on user perceptions which raised some issues on - uncertainty about intellectual property issues technical difficulties disciplinary differences deep reliance on current impact measures uncertainty over sustainability new form of scholarship not yet trusted many researchers support the idea of increasing access to research, but worry about the implications for their career of sharing their work need to educate researchers about all the different ways they can be open and how sharing can be beneficial for their careers. 20

21 Name ambiguity and authority control using ORCID Repositories ORCID connects different ID systems through open & persistent identifiers DOI ISBN Publishers Funders Machinereadable Interoperable Other person identifiers Professional Associations Higher Education and Employers 21

22 Predatory publishers need to carefully evaluate the scholarly credibility of both the publisher and the journal. Check the publisher s website against these codes of conduct for publishers: International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) Code of Conduct Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers 22

23 Predatory publishers Providing little or no evidence of peer review Spamming researchers for submission of articles Hiding names of editors, owners, business addresses, sometime using the name of institution or organizations that seem legitimate 23

24 Choosing the right journal for your research Visit 24

25 STRATEGIES FOR LIBRARIANS Library plays crucial role in providing/enabling infrastructure for educational resources to amplify impact of research output or faculty work Acquire new skills and knowledge on scholarly communication Share best practices among colleagues Educate researchers to think beyond single impact factors Educate them how they can control the destiny of their research outputs Educate researchers to improve and promote their online presence - encourage use of professional networking sites to make themselves visible e.g LinkedIn ResearchGate Make use of online profiles ORCID, Scopus ID, ResearcherID (WOS) Educate researchers to use standard institutional affiliations Educate them to acknowledge sources 25

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28 Altmetrics Altmetrics are non-traditional metrics that cover not just citation counts but also downloads, social media shares and other measures of impact of research outputs. The term is variously used to mean alternative metrics or article level metrics, and it encompasses indicators derived from social websites, such as Twitter, Academia.edu, Mendeley, and ResearchGate. 28

29 IIUM Experts Profile on PlumX PlumX TM is an impact dashboard that provides evidence of how research output in all its forms is being utilized, interacted with, and talked about around the world. 29

30 PlumX categorize metrics into 5 separate types: Examples of each type are: Usage - clicks, downloads, views, library holdings, video plays Captures - bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers Mentions - blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links Social media - +1s, likes, shares, Tweets Citations - PubMed Central, Scopus, USPTO 30

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35 STRATEGIES FOR ADMINISTRATORS Give priority at the highest level of administration for open access to be successfully implemented clear policy the governs the use of public funding and the research outcome Incentive and reward structure need to be aligned with open access Model new behaviours in evaluation, promotion and tenure processes 35

36 Thank You 36