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Implementing Open Access Policy: First Case Studies

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When implementing open access, policy pioneers and flagship institutions alike have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving a recognized success.

Legitimate authority, sufficient resources and the right timing are crucial, but the professionals charged with implementing policy typically still need several years to accomplish significant progress.

This study defines a methodological standard for evaluating the first generation of open access policies. Evaluating implementation establishes evidence, enables reflection, and may foster the emergence of a second generation of open access policies.

While the study is based on a small number of cases, these case studies cover most of the pioneer institutions, present the most significant issues and offer an international overview.

Each case is reconstructed individually on the basis of public documents and background information, and supported by interviews with professionals responsible for open access implementation.

This article presents the highlights from each case study. The results are utilized to indicate how a second generation of policies might define open access as a key component of digital research infrastructures that provide inputs and outputs for research, teaching and learning in real time.

URL : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1927772

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Briefing paper on Open Access Business Models for…

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Briefing paper on Open Access Business Models for research funders and universities :

« This study covers the types of business model used for open access to publicly-funded research content. Various organizational structures developed to offer open access to publicly-funded research content are examined from the perspective of publicly-funded institutions and
organizations. Business models for publicly-funded institutions can be built from elements which a commercial business model may not include, particularly in respect of the inclusion of non-financial factors. While the cost of open access or any other research dissemination model remains important, the discussion around research dissemination now includes impact, value and benefits. Other non-financial factors – such as copyright assignment – are also understood to be key issues in designing a successful business model for publicly-funded research outputs. Thus in this document the description of each type of open access business model includes the factors which will determine the cost incurred in providing open access, the factors likely to be important in adopting the model, and a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of each open access model from the perspective of research funding agencies and institutions managing the funding of research dissemination. Most of the document relates to research outputs in the form of journal articles but brief descriptions are given of factors important in open access to research data and research monographs. »

URL : http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=459

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L’édition numérique dans les pays en développement

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« E-books, impression à la demande, sites de vente en ligne, essor des téléphones portables… les nouvelles technologies transforment profondément le mode de circulation des textes. Dans les pays en développement, qui connaissent à différentes échelles de graves contraintes en infrastructure, l’enjeu est de taille.

Quels nouveaux acteurs apparaissent dans les pays du Sud, en marge des systèmes puissants déjà formés aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Japon ? Peut-on concevoir une évolution autonome des publications numériques dans les pays en développement par rapport à celle des pays riches ? Quelles politiques d’appui peuvent être mises en place pour encourager la croissance de cette nouvelle industrie et pour aider et accompagner les acteurs traditionnels à s’adapter aux changements ?

Des expériences numériques menées dans le Sud permettent d’entrevoir que les nouvelles technologies constituent une grande opportunité pour les pays en développement – notamment en termes de diffusion – à condition que les entrepreneurs locaux cherchent des modèles originaux, adaptés aux besoins concrets de leurs communautés. »

URL : http://alliance-lab.org/etude/wp-content/uploads/edition_numerique.pdf

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Approaches to Marketing an Institutional Repository to Campus…

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Approaches to Marketing an Institutional Repository to Campus :

« Marketing is an activity that is integral to the growth and use of a campus
institutional repository (IR). But what kinds of marketing activities do libraries engage in to advertise the new services associated with an IR? This chapter summarizes basic marketing principles and describes
the application of those principles as they relate to marketing an institutional repository within a higher education setting. »

URL : http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/17/

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Asking for Permission: A Survey of Copyright Workflows for Institutional Repositories

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An online survey of institutional repository (IR) managers identified copyright clearance trends in staffing and workflows. The majority of respondents followed a mediated deposit model, and reported that library personnel, instead of authors, engaged in copyright clearance activities for IRs.

The most common “information gaps” pertained to the breadth of information in copyright directories like SHERPA/RoMEO. To fill these gaps, most respondents directly contacted publishers for permissions.

Respondents typically did not share publisher responses with other IRs, citing barriers such as time, expertise, staffing, and the need for improved methods for sharing data with copyright directories.

URL : http://works.bepress.com/marisa_ramirez/18/

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Public Availability of Published Research Data in High…

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Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journals :

« Background : There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data available in highly-cited journals across the scientific literature.

Methods and Results : We reviewed the first 10 original research papers of 2009 published in the 50 original research journals with the highest impact factor. For each journal we documented the policies related to public availability and sharing of data. Of the 50 journals, 44 (88%) had a statement in their instructions to authors related to public availability and sharing of data. However, there was wide variation in journal requirements, ranging from requiring the sharing of all primary data related to the research to just including a statement in the published manuscript that data can be available on request. Of the 500 assessed papers, 149 (30%) were not subject to any data availability policy. Of the remaining 351 papers that were covered by some data availability policy, 208 papers (59%) did not fully adhere to the data availability instructions of the journals they were published in, most commonly (73%) by not publicly depositing microarray data. The other 143 papers that adhered to the data availability instructions did so by publicly depositing only the specific data type as required, making a statement of willingness to share, or actually sharing all the primary data. Overall, only 47 papers (9%) deposited full primary raw data online. None of the 149 papers not subject to data availability policies made their full primary data publicly available.

Conclusion : A substantial proportion of original research papers published in high-impact journals are either not subject to any data availability policies, or do not adhere to the data availability instructions in their respective journals. This empiric evaluation highlights opportunities for improvement. »

URL : http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024357
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024357