Institutional Repositories and Licensing of Research Output advanced information management laboratory university of cape town department of computer science Commons-Sense Conference, Jhb, May 2005 hussein suleman

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uct Outline  What is Open Access?  Institutional Repositories  UCT-CS Departmental Archive  Why an IR?  Licensing in an IR  Publication, Copyright, Pre- and Post-Prints  Electronic Theses and Dissertations  Open Archives Initiative  South African Perspectives

uct What is Open Access  Open Access implies that any member of the public can get unhindered access to digital versions of publications.  Key Aspects: No (Low?) cost. No access restrictions. High quality of publications.  Common Types of Open Access: Open Access Journals Institutional Repositories

uct Institutional Repositories  Institutional Repositories (IR) are digital libraries run by an educational/research institution to archive documents owned/produced locally.  Self Archiving means taking control of and responsibility for the preservation and access to your research publications. Take ownership of your research! Easier access for collaborators (“reprints” are dead). National/regional/institutional rules and laws. Greater visibility to research. Can provide access even if university does not subscribe to journals.

uct The UCT-CS Research Repository  Author self-submission  Checking of submissions  Archive-everything!  UCT-CS-specific metadata and classification systems  Hierarchical browsing  Simple and fielded searching  OAI-PMH compliance

uct What we archive  Books and Book Chapters  Conference Paper and Posters  Journals (online and paginated)  Newspaper and Magazine Articles  Preprints  Presentation Slides  Conference Proceedings  Departmental Technical Reports  Electronic Theses and Dissertations  Other Stuff …

uct Why a Research Repository?  Unique IP address accesses

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uct Issues: Publication and Pre-Prints  If we put pre-publication documents into an IR, does this affect publication?  Generally, NO. Why? Computer Scientists and Physicists have done this for decades with “ technical reports”. The version in the archive is (often substantially) different from the reviewed and published version. Theses and dissertations are not usually considered pre-publication by publishers.

uct Issues: Copyright and Post-Prints  If we deposit post-publication documents into an IR, doesn’t this violate copyright?  Generally, NO. Why? Most society publishers will allow archiving on a website or IR e.g., ACM Most commercial publishers allow archiving on a website or IR after some time (typically months). Newer commercial publisher agreements make greater allowance for IRs. You can always negotiate with a publisher!

uct Issues: Publishers and Government  Commercial publishers “require” copyright transfer - Open Access publishers do not.  Some governments are mandating OA for research: UK and US (and SA?) are considering laws. Many governments have laws regarding theses.  Moral: Commercial publishers have to adapt – exclusive copyright transfer will not work if governments do not allow it!

uct Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)  ETDs are the “low-hanging fruit” of institutional repositories “easy” to get up and running high quality submissions, already refereed  Students usually grant a licence to the institution to: archive the work use it locally in perpetuity, and without cost make it accessible publicly  Licences can be postdated archive the work use it locally in perpetuity, and without cost make it accessible publicly – but only after one year

uct Open Archives Initiative (OAI)  OAI created and maintains the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a low-barrier interoperability protocol for metadata repositories.  OAI enables linking together of multiple IRs and ETD collections into portals and meta-search engines.  As of May 2005, each metadata record can now include a machine-readable rights statements or link to such!

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uct How this affects South Africa  IRs becoming increasingly popular Conference on Open Access – July 2004 Training Workshop on IRs – May 2005 African Summer School on Digital Libraries? 2005/6?  ETD programmes launched at ~half universities ETD Workshop – September 2003  OAI-compliant Repositories emerging … such as UCT-CS Research quietly getting on with the job …  Chatter about national archiving  metadata and data will move around  licences must be formally defined and rigorous  the time for Creative Commons is now!

uct Links  Open Archives Initiative  Budapest Open Access Initiative  SA Open Access Initiatives  UCT CS Research Archive  Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations