UCT’s Institutional Repository: OpenUCT

By Jill Claassen

What is Open Access? Anyone may read, download, copy, distribute,

print, search, or link to the full text of articles

What Open Access is not? It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass the peer-review process. Not a “stick anything on the web” approach

So long as authors and original publishing source is properly acknowledged through citation

What is an Institutional Repository?

• Open access digital archive on open source software platform

• Putting scholarly content into an institutional repository enables staff and institutions to manage and preserve it

• A repository is commonly used for open access research outputs

Open Access Repositories Globally

Benefits of the Institutional Repository for the Researcher

• Research papers are discovered through search engines like Google

• Increases impact, visibility and usage of research on the internet;

• Provides new contacts and can result in research partnerships for authors;

• Repositories provide usage statistics, which reveal international interest;

• Secure storage of research, as well as stability and longevity.

Benefits of the Institutional Repository for the Institution

• Increased impact and visibility of research on the web;

• Publicises the institution’s research strengths, attracting more post graduate students, strong researchers, and institutional partnerships;

• Quality research available to the general public.

Openness at UCT

• 2008: UCT signed the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education

• 2011: UCT signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

• 2014: UCT passed an Open Access Policy (June) • 2014: UCT launched an institutional repository (end of

July), called OpenUCT

UCT’s Open Access Policy

• UCT scholars and students should deposit their journal articles and theses and dissertations

• Other scholarship includes essays, books, conference papers, reports, educational resources, presentations, scholarly multi-media material and audio-visual works

• UCT Libraries have been tasked to implement the Open Access Policy

The Policy is committed to preserving “scholarly work of UCT scholars and to make this scholarship discoverable, visible and freely available online to anyone who seeks it".

Both …. And

Publish as usual Deposit a copy in OpenUCT

http://open.uct.ac.za/

Things to remember when submitting an article to OpenUCT

• Keep your postprint • Know which version is allowed in the IR• Ask for permission to deposit postprint into IR or

add an author addendum to publication agreement

• Look up Publisher Copyright Policyon SHERPA/RoMEO website

• Follow submission steps on OpenUCT

Theses and Dissertations in OpenUCT

• Default is Open Access• 3 exemptions:

– Deferred publication– To enable IP protection of work– Sensitive findings

http://open.uct.ac.za/help.html More information

Any questions?

Email: openuct@uct.ac.za

Website: http://open.uct.ac.za