DR CR Karisiddappa, Director, Academic Staff College, Dharwad

Surinder Kumar, Technical Director, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi

suri@nic.in

Scientific Communication Channel - Conventional JournalsOver 20,000 peer-review journalsNumber of papers published increases by 3.5%

per yearJournal prices have increased significantly more

quickly than inflation over last 20 years. http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/graphs/2002/2002t2.html

Even the wealthiest institution cannot purchase access to all the information that all of its researchers require

Many publishers charge extra for online access – so causing more pressure on budgets

Scientific Communication Channel - Stake HoldersAuthors

Their work is not seen by all their peersthey do not get the recognition they desireDespite the fact they often have to pay page

charges, colour figure charges, reprint charges, etc.

Often the rights they have given up in exchange for publication mean there are things that they cannot do with their own work

Scientific Communication Channel - Stake Holders Researchers

– They cannot view all the research literature they need – they are less effective

Libraries– Cannot satisfy the information needs of their users

Society– We all lose out if the communication channels are not

optimal.

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

Open Access – What It is What Open Access is

– The Open Access research literature is composed of free, online copies of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers as well as technical reports, theses and working papers. In most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by readers. They can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other purposes.

What Open Access is not– It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication,

nor is it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess

The B’s of Open AccessBudapest Open Access Initiative

(February 2002)

Bethesda Declaration (June 2003)

Berlin Declaration (October 2003)

Definition of Open Access- Budapest InitiativeThere are many degrees and kinds of wider

and easier access to this literature. By ‘open access’, we mean it’s free availability….. The only constraint …authors’control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged.http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shmtl

The Berlin Declaration

…let users “copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship…”

The Berlin Declaration

…let users “copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship…”

http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.hmtl

Directory of Open Access Journal - DefinitionWe define open access journals as journals

that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory.

The Two Colors of Open AccessBudapest InitiativesGold –Open Access journals

Green –Author Self-Archiving

Institutional Repositories-what it isAn institutional repository or e-print archive is a

digital repository of the research output of an institution that is usually accessible freely to end-users both within and outside of the institution

IR is described as “a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.”Clifford Lynch (2003), Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information

Institutional Repositories-benefits “Some proponents of the open access movement see the IR or open access

archive as the most cost effective and immediate route to providing access to the results of publicly funded research, thereby maximizing the potential research impact of these publications”

“Some research libraries see IRs as a means to expand on the amount and diversity of scholarly material that is collected and preserved, thus enhancing teaching, learning and research at the host institution and beyond.”

“Some see IRs as a way to enhance an institution’s prestige or branding by showcasing its faculty’s research output.”

“IRs is considered as an essential infrastructure for the reform of the entire enterprise of scholarly communication and publishing.”

“Remedying the weakness of current local self archiving; running personal or departmental web servers is wasteful of academics’ time and academics frequently lack essential”

Widely disseminating academic products and ideas of faculty, and enhancing paper’s cited rate

Creating ease of access for peer group, and enhancing possibility of easy searching by adopting OAI-compatible standards

Demonstrating to funding bodies the breadth and depth of research output from a university or institute to stake or further a leadership claim in a specific subject areas

IR-Setting UpAre you currently interested in an institutional repository

for your institution? Why / why not? Who are the stakeholders involved at your institution?

Have you started conversations with them re: an IR yet? Why / why not?

What are your local considerations for content for an IR? Do you have any types of content specifically targeted yet?

Describe your local IT situation:Describe Library technical staff: number, skills, range of

activities Interactions with institution / campus IT staff (central IT

units)What are your current thoughts on implementation of an IR

for your institution?Who would be involved? What kind / level of involvement?

Type of ServicesDigitizationMetadata EnhancementBatch Import FacilityProxy ServicesUser Support & Training

Enabling TechnologyOpen Source Technology Software AvailableEnabling OAI-PMH Standard

Dspace (http://www.dspace.org)Eprints(http://eprints.org)GreenStone (http://www.greenstone.org)Commercial Software (ContentDm, DIGItools

IRS-ChallengesTechnical, Social Prolems such as Selection

of Hardware, Selection of Software, Operation Problems such as Loading Software, Customization, setup server, security etc

Moblizing Content, Feeling of Unnecssary extra burden, additional learning of technology

ConclusionOpen Access to Research, thus maximizing

the impact of researchBy preserving the Institutional ResourcesIt may overcome eventually affordability

problems.It may help in bridiging knowledge gap exist.It is felt more coordination at the National

level to help in understanding its total effect.

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