Collaborative Open Access Projects:

Collaborative promotion of research outputs

Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.netPresented at Open Access: Maximising Research Quality and

Impact, October 29 – 30, 2009 University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing, Lilongwe

eIFL federated repositoryend of 2007 – April, 2009: http://eifl.cq2.org

to increase the visibility of scholarly publications and to start international co-operation and community

building

19 countries, total hits in January 2008 – January 2009 – 18.4 million

to test new repositories for OAI-PMH compliancy

the service was provided by CQ2 and we shared the platform with SURF

PlanseIFL-DRIVER partnership

to register repositories from eIFL.net networkso that their contents are harvested periodically,

indexed into the DRIVER platform and presented in the DRIVER

European Repository search portal

Increased global visibility and wider distribution

Plans 2Support and market

the DRIVER content policy (full-texts, e.g. via OA set)

Communicate DRIVER Guidelines and validator as self-assessment tool

Provide help-desk support, validation and filling-in registration forms if needed

SARUA

“an ‘open knowledge platform’ for the region”

“A Southern African research publishing and dissemination platform”

SARUA 2“The objective of this recommendation is to create a

common platform for the Southern African universities, that serves to significantly increase the volume of published research, profiles the work of

publishing researchers and scientists in both the Southern African and international research communities, promotes quality in scholarly publishing, makes research and scholarly

publication available to the broad academic and student population, particularly the postgraduate student population at low cost and promotes the

utilisation of research output by a broader community of researchers and members of society”

Big ideasa subject-based gateway

to research from Southern African countries

Open access repositories +

OAI-PMH compliant Open Access journals

Big ideas 2Service provider:

demonstrates one of the underlying concepts of open access repositories:

for the purposes of using the material, it does not matter whether it is stored

in a subject-based repository, an institutional repository

or published in the open access journal

What is of interest to the user is how they can discover it.

Big ideas 3full text indexing

for more accurate searching and for relevance ranking(Lucene is freely available software for this)

subject based browsing

citation indexesFreely downloadable software at http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

Web 2.0 tools like RSS feeds, social tagging, annotations etc.

Big ideas 4Most downloaded papers

Recent submissions

Database of the experts“Cream of science”

“Promise of science”

Translating research for the society

Thank you!Questions?

Iryna Kuchmairyna.kuchma[at]eifl.net; www.eifl.net

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