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Status of Institutional Repositories in Asian Countries A…

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Status of Institutional Repositories in Asian Countries: A Quantitative Study :

“ICT and availability of open sources software packages has enabled most of the institutions to maintain institutional repository or archive to collect, preserve, and make accessible the intellectual output created by their scholarly communities. There are more than 1800 Institutional Repositories (IRs) world wide of which more than 50% are in USA, UK, Germany and Spain. There has been relatively little systematic examination of the actual state of deployment of IRs in Asian countries. This study attempts to identify the present status of IRs in the countries of Asia. Data of repositories was collected from various directories of IRs. Data is analyzed in terms of quantity of IRs increased during last five years, country-wise IRs and number of objects, types of materials archived, subject coverage, software used, language of interface, host domains, and policy maaters. The results of the study suggest healthy growth in terms of quantity of IRs in Asian countries. The subject analysis of the IRs indicates that the institutes in the field of sciences and technology are more interested to create IRs than social sciences, arts and humanities. Currently the IRs mostly housed traditional (print-oriented) scholarly publications and grey literature, using DSpace software and most of these materials were of English language. However, the policy of content inclusion, submission and preservation is yet to be well defined in IRs.”

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16854

Open access journals and institutional repositories practical need…

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Open access journals and institutional repositories: practical need and present trends in India :

“Trends in open access publishing in India are discussed. Data was collected from directories of open access journals and institutional repositories. The URL of each institutional repository and open access journals publisher was visited to collect relevant data and information including from earlier studies. Case study method was used to know the trends of open access publishing in India. Data is analyzed based on certain parameters, such as number of institutional repositories and open access journals, number of documents, software used, types of documents, etc. Among the top 25 open access publishing countries, India ranks 12th for the overall number of journals, but drops to 18th for journals with online content. However, its position in the list of open access journals is fifth. At present India ranks 12th in the list of countries with registered interoperable archives in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).”

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16852

Certificat DINI Services de Dépôts et de Publication…

Posté le 6 avril 2012 par Hans Dillaerts

Certificat DINI. Services de Dépôts et de Publication en Libre Accès 2010 :

“Internet et les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication ont bouleversé le système de la communication scientifique de fond en comble. De nouveaux dispositifs de distribution et de médiation se mettent en place, tel que le mouvement international vers le libre accès, dont l’objectif est la mise en ligne gratuite d’information scientifique.

Beaucoup d’institutions scientifiques se sont déjà investies dans le domaine des services de dépôts et de publication en libre accès. Elles se donnent les moyens de rendre leurs publications disponibles en ligne pour un public international, et de les conserver. En Allemagne, le Conseil Scientifique et la Conférence des Présidents des Universités soutiennent ce développement; le Ministère Fédéral de l’Education et de la Recherche et l’Agence Allemande pour la Recherche (DFG) subventionnent ces projets en priorité.

Ceci étant, les projets doivent s’appuyer sur une technologie confirmée et être compatibles avec des normes internationales pour optimiser la visibilité et l’impact de la production des chercheurs, pour refléter la performance scientifique d’une université ou d’un organisme de recherche.

Pour accompagner les projets et définir un cadre d’infrastructures, le groupe de travail « édition numérique » du DINI s’est saisi assez tôt de cette question et a publié début 2002 des recommandations pour l’édition universitaire1. Par la suite, DINI a formalisé une série de critères dans le certificat DINI Services de Dépôts et de Publication en Libre Accès qui après deux éditions en 2004 et 2007 sort aujourd’hui dans une 3e version (2010); cette dernière version détaille tous les aspects techniques, organisationnels et juridiques nécessaires pour créer et faire fonctionner de tels services dans la durée.”

URL : http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/dini-schriften/2010-3-fr/PDF/dini-zertifikat-2010-3-fr.pdf

Institutional repository `eKMAIR’ establishing and populating a research…

Posté le 20 mars 2012 par Hans Dillaerts

Institutional repository `eKMAIR’: establishing and populating a research repository for the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” :

“University libraries have an increasingly important role to play in supporting open access publishing and dissemination of research outputs. In particular, many libraries are playing a leading role in establishing and managing institutional repositories. Institutional repositories are, most often, Open Access Initiative (OAI)-compliant databases of a university or other research institution’s intellectual output, most typically research papers, although many other forms of digital media can also be stored and disseminated. Their main function is to provide improved access to the full text of research articles and improve retrieval of relevant research.
The National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” is a small-sized institution with approximately 3,000 students and 500 academic staff. Although it is a teaching-intensive university, developing research and knowledge-transfer capacity is a strategic priority and four research institutes have been established, with further research activity going on in the academic schools and research centres.”

URL : http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2434

Open access theses in institutional repositories an exploratory…

Posté le 14 mars 2012 par Hans Dillaerts

Open access theses in institutional repositories: an exploratory study of the perceptions of doctoral students :

“Introduction. We examine doctoral students’ awareness of and attitudes to open access forms of publication. Levels of awareness of open access and the concept of institutional repositories, publishing behaviour and perceptions of benefits and risks of open access publishing were explored.
Method. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through interviews with eight doctoral students enrolled in a range of disciplines in a New Zealand university and a self-completion Web survey of 251 students.
Analysis. Interview data were analysed thematically, then evaluated against a theoretical framework. The interview data were then used to inform the design of the survey tool. Survey responses were analysed as a single set, then by disciple using SurveyMonkey’s online toolkit and Excel.
Results. While awareness of open access and repository archiving is still low, the majority of interview and survey respondents were found to be supportive of the concept of open access. The perceived benefits of enhanced exposure and potential for sharing outweigh the perceived risks. The majority of respondents were supportive of an existing mandatory thesis submission policy.
Conclusions. Low levels of awareness of the university repository remains an issue, and could be addressed by further investigating the effectiveness of different communication channels for promotion.”

URL : http://informationr.net/ir/17-1/paper507.html

Open Access Scholarly Communication in Malaysia This…

Posté le 5 février 2012 par Hans Dillaerts

Open Access Scholarly Communication in Malaysia :

“This paper reports on Open Access Scholarly Communication in Malaysia, investigating their use of open access repositories, advocacy undertaken, and reasons for contribution to global scholarship. The outcome wills very much in line with the stipulations willing Scholarly on Open access that will preserve and disseminate digital materials created by, or associated with the university.”

URL : http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16557