Open Access - An Introduction
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Open Access provides unrestricted access to scholarly journal articles and allows for reuse. It has revolutionized scholarly communication and emerged as an alternative publishing model. There are two main forms - Gratis OA provides free online access while Libre OA provides free online access plus additional usage rights. Major challenges include building consensus, copyright issues, and managing digital content over its lifecycle. However, Open Access increases citation rates, visibility of institutions, and helps address issues in developing countries by democratizing knowledge.
![What Is Open Access?
● Open access is the practice of providing
unrestricted access to peer-reviewed
scholarly journal articles (and reuse
rights) [Peter Suber]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/madallioaintroductionoaweek2016presentation-161024090401/85/Open-Access-An-Introduction-2-320.jpg)
![Open Access Resources
● Directory of Open Access Repositories
[openDOAR -
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◦ OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access
repositories
● DOAJ [https://doaj.org/ ]
◦ DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that
indexes and provides access to high quality, open
access, peer-reviewed journals.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/madallioaintroductionoaweek2016presentation-161024090401/85/Open-Access-An-Introduction-11-320.jpg)
![INASP [http://www.inasp.info/en/]
INASP with its global network of
partners in Africa, Latin America and
Asia, works to support individuals and
institutions to produce, share and use
research and knowledge.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/madallioaintroductionoaweek2016presentation-161024090401/85/Open-Access-An-Introduction-13-320.jpg)
![Open Access Principles, [Madalli, D, 2011]
● Free knowledge from shackles of economic
compulsions
‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’.
● Making a case for Open Access: establish it
‘Scholarship is the same; priced or open’.
● Be optimistic, working towards national level
policies and Mandates
‘If one is convinced, others will be too’.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/madallioaintroductionoaweek2016presentation-161024090401/85/Open-Access-An-Introduction-17-320.jpg)
Open Access - An Introduction
- 1. Open Access – An Introduction Devika P. Madalli DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore
- 2. What Is Open Access? ● Open access is the practice of providing unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles (and reuse rights) [Peter Suber]
- 3. Introduction • Open Access (OA) has revolutionized the ways of ▪ Scholarly communication ▪ Academic scholarship • Emerging as an alternative publishing model with greater advantages • Getting more into the domain of Open Economy – where learning, content, education is seamless and open.
- 4. Some important points about Open Access ● Open access is a cost-effective way to disseminate and use information ● Open access operates within the current legal framework of copyright law ● Open access is intended to be free for readers, not free for producers ● Open access focuses on academic research ● Open access and peer review ● Open Access Definition - (ARL), 2004
- 5. Open Access - Timeline ● In December 2001, Budapest Open Access Initiative was born ● In April 2003, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing was released ● In October 2003, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was declared
- 6. Open Access Constitutes… ● Open access (OA) comes in two forms, Gratis and Libre. ◦ Gratis OA is free online access ◦ Libre OA is free online access plus some additional usage rights. OA's primary target content is articles published in scholarly journals. (Wikipedia, 2011)
- 7. Open Publishing Models ● There are variety of publishing models emerging in Open Access ▪ Self-archiving journals/articles in institutional settings. ▪ Open-access journals in organizational settings. ▪ Vendor Journal Publishing Systems.
- 8. Cross-section of Open Access •Open Access •Open Attributes of Metadata •Open Content Development •Open Educational Resources •Open Institutional Repositories
- 9. 2 Models of OA Publishing ● Green Model ▪ Research community can deposit their publications in an OA institutional repository by means of self-archiving, and institutional policies. ● Gold Model ▪ Publishers convert and commit to OA journals
- 10. Major Institutional Repositories ● DSpace ● EPrints
- 11. Open Access Resources ● Directory of Open Access Repositories [openDOAR - http://www.opendoar.org/] ◦ OpenDOAR is a directory of academic open access repositories ● DOAJ [https://doaj.org/ ] ◦ DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
- 12. SHERPA (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/) ● SHERPA developing open-access institutional repositories in universities to facilitate the rapid and efficient worldwide dissemination of research. ● SHERPA services ◦ RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies ◦ JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines ◦ OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories ◦ SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories ◦ SHERPA/FACT is a tool to help researchers check if the journals in which they wish to publish their results comply with their funder's requirements for open access to research.
- 13. INASP [http://www.inasp.info/en/] INASP with its global network of partners in Africa, Latin America and Asia, works to support individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge.
- 14. Challenges ● Building consensus among stakeholders ● Copyrights issues ● Recruiting content and management of digital content life cycle ● Licensing content and models
- 15. Advantages ● Open software gives more powerful features, in building institutional repositories at no-cost or less cost ● Citation rate is likely high; if the article is on Web then its citability is relatively high. ● Exposition of existence of scholarly communication is more in digital media ● Visibility of institutions are gauged on their output
- 16. Importance ● Developing countries woes are addressed in many ways to build open content ● Democratization of knowledge: Open access of information is lifeline for developing countries ● Diminishing resources allocation, and funds necessitate to embrace open resources
- 17. Open Access Principles, [Madalli, D, 2011] ● Free knowledge from shackles of economic compulsions ‘Knowledge unto him who produces knowledge’. ● Making a case for Open Access: establish it ‘Scholarship is the same; priced or open’. ● Be optimistic, working towards national level policies and Mandates ‘If one is convinced, others will be too’.
- 18. References ● Alma Swan. Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of open access. UNESCO. 2012. ● Association of Research Libraries, ARL, 2004: “Framing the Issue Open Access.” Available at http://www.arl.org/scomm/open_access/framing.html accessed on February 28, 2004; last modifications then cited February 26, 2004.) ● http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?format=charts ● http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ ● Peter Suber. "Open Access Overview". Earlham.edu.2011 ● Peter Suber.."Gratis and Libre Open Access“. 2008 ● Stevan Harnad,. etal ."The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access". Serials Review. 30 (4): 310–314. 2004.
- 19. Resources ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ac cess ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevan_ Harnad ● https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki /Peter_Suber ● http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ ● https://doaj.org/ ● http://openaccessindia.org/