UdR, Bogota, agosto Using technology to improve quality in education – 3 Ian Johnson

UdR, Bogota, agosto OVERVIEW  Institutional Repositories (IRs)  Challenges for Open Access publishers

UdR, Bogota, agosto EVOLUTION OF IRs  Thesis collections  Paper Secure and inaccessible Vandalism and theft  E-thesis projects  Awareness of potential of Institutional Repositories

UdR, Bogota, agosto TECHNICAL QUALITY  Open source  Affordable  DSpace or ePrints? Technical skills?  Maintenance by IT service  Software implementation  Content back-up  Server capacity for expansion

UdR, Bogota, agosto WINNING SUPPORT  Time and effort  Technical scrutiny  Financial scrutiny  Staff buy-in  Project management Interdisciplinary team  Strong user group

UdR, Bogota, agosto COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY  PhD theses  Regulation on deposit AND access  Embedded copyright cleared  Masters Degree theses?  Journal articles?  Peer reviewed?  Post-print? Open access  ROMEO list  Links from staff publications database?

UdR, Bogota, agosto NEXT STEPS  Retrospective digitisation?  Multimedia

UdR, Bogota, agosto RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPERS  SHERPA project   DRAMBORA project 

UdR, Bogota, agosto Questions? Comments?

UdR, Bogota, agosto OPEN ACCESS FUTURE?  Librarians are enthusiastic  Researchers and their funding agencies are more cautious  Commercial publishing companies are sceptical, but willing to experiment

UdR, Bogota, agosto DISCIPLINE-SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES  Need for rapid publication  Importance of retrospective coverage

UdR, Bogota, agosto QUALITY INCURS COSTS  Editorial work  Advocacy and acquiring papers  Preparation for publication Proofreading Checking citations Layout  Indexing by search engines  Registration  Metadata provision  Citation linking  Web citation preservation  Marketing and promotion  Table of Contents alerts  Aggregators’ coverage

UdR, Bogota, agosto QUALITY REQUIRES SUSTAINABILITY  Regularity of publication  Continuation of support  Start-up funding, then…?  Individual enthusiasm or corporate commitment?  Author fees – who pays?  Archiving and preservation

UdR, Bogota, agosto AUTHOR PARTICIPATION  Access, visibility, and impact  Linguistic issues  Perceptions of ‘vanity publishing’  Quality control, peer review and impact evaluation  Developments in citation analysis services

UdR, Bogota, agosto INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES  Additional quality issues:-  Research reports or journal papers?  Publishers’ attitudes to deposit and contracts with authors  Mandatory or voluntary deposit?  Retention of former employees’ papers?  Branding?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE WAY AHEAD? INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES  Do Institutional Repositories have a significant role to play in supplying quality teaching materials?  Will acquiring content be a problem in Latin America?  Where will the repositories be registered?  How can the the adequacy of the metadata be assured?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE WAY AHEAD? PUBLISHING IN SPANISH  How could academics be encouraged to publish more and better quality material in Portuguese and Spanish?  Will the new potential for inclusion in ISI’s Citation Indexes encourage journal editors and publishers to change current practices?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE WAY AHEAD? RETRO-DIGITISATION  Which journals could (or should) be made available online?  Where will complete collections be found?  Is the effort worthwhile?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE WAY AHEAD? AFFORDABILITY  Can regular publication of OA journals be assured?  Who will cover the paper submission charges of the commercial publishing companies?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE WAY AHEAD? ACCESSIBILITY  How could the indexes to e-journals be improved?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE FUTURE SCENE? OPEN ACCESS  What roles could Open Access publishing play in delivering quality learning resources?  Open access - Green - self archived papers  Repositories  Open access – Gold – journals free to users  OA journals, Hybrids or delayed OA?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE FUTURE SCENE? COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING  What role will commercial publishing companies play?  Markets and prices  New business models?  Pay as you go?  Open access for readers?

UdR, Bogota, agosto THE FUTURE SCENE? What is the future for university publishers?

UdR, Bogota, agosto Questions? Comments?