Open access projects and libraries

Iryna Kuchma, eIFL Open Access program manager, eIFL.netPresented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact,

April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/transformational-times.pdf

Transformational times

“On the other hand, the economic situation could be favourable to the further development of open access

publishing in Canada.”

Transformational times

“Open Access publication mandates may well be adopted by the funding councils…

Data preservation will also likely be more widely mandated.

Systematic enforcement of the mandates will depend on the development of appropriate

repositories, whether disciplinary or institutional.”

Open Access (OA) & libraries

open access has permanently changed

the field of scholarly communication

OA & librariesOpen access has changed

the profile of academic and research libraries– more and more they have become partners

in research, data-curation

and education, ensuring the quality of digital resources is maintained,

and openly sharing these resources with their users

OA & librariesAcademic and research libraries are setting up and maintaining

open access institutional or subject repositories, becoming partners

in open access publishing, and helping to create

open educational resources

OA & librariesAcademic and research libraries

are also developing advanced and enhanced metrics

– a new range of standardized indicators based on reader (rather than author-facing) metrics

and much more still remains to be explored

Open dataAmount of scientific data

is growing every yearAccess, use and curation

of large data sets are becoming increasingly important.

Ensuring open access to the data behind the research literature

will help to build a scholarly communication system that supports the needs of researchers

Open dataAs Open Data moves

to the forefront of scholarly communication, librarians, administrators, and researchers

have to consider new access policies for data and data curation issues

Open dataRaising awareness and understanding of data issues amongst researchers,

providing archiving and preservation services for datasets,

and developing a new professional strand of practice – data librarianship are key

challenges for the library and information science community

OERThe Cape Town Open Education Declaration

defines open educational resources (OER) as "openly licensed course materials, lesson plans, textbooks, games, software and other

materials that support teaching and learning." It goes on to state that these resources should

be "... licensed to facilitate use, revision, translation, improvement and sharing by

anyone."

OEROER have the potential

to transform the way scholarship is conducted and they are a logical extension

of what the library community supports in the open access movement

Libraries have a role to play in the open education by encouraging the creation and

use of open materials

Changing landscapeIn this changing environment for scholarly communication

academic and research libraries need to be

agile, creative,

risk-taking and innovative

in order to respond to the needs of a new generation of faculty and students

Changing landscapeScience is dynamic and collaborative and it is important

to sustain the communication processes, rather than to simply archive research results

in the form of a single journal article

Changing landscapeLibrarians and information specialists

need to be involved in the early planning and data-modelling phases

of research in order to accelerate learning

and discovery, and libraries will need

to become core collaborators on campus, using technology

to advance scholarly communication and enable a climate of openness

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/repository-services-report.pdf

Thank you!Questions?

Iryna Kuchmairyna.kuchma[at]eifl.net; www.eifl.net

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