1. Improving the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries: Experience from Bioline International Leslie Chan Associate Director Bioline International University of Toronto at Scarborough OSISA/eIFL Open Access Workshop for Southern Africa 21-22 August 2006, Pretoria, South Africa

2. Outline What is Bioline International - Goals, objectives Broader Context - Open Access and journals from developing countries Partnership Impact of OA so far Ways forward

3. Journals from developing world Limited circulation Poor visibility and readership Limited recognition Fewer citations Fewer authors and subscriptions Circle of limited accessibility

4. Open Access enables New “business” and funding models Disaggregation of “content” and “services” Post-publication evaluation and impact Integration of open source software and open standards –URI, OpenURL (vs) DOI, CrossRef Linking of Research and Education

5. Dominant Model of Knowledge Dissemination From the Centre to Periphery invisible knowledge Stopping the cycle of knowledge poverty and dependence

6. Open access enable Peer-to-Peer sharing … and new model of Knowledge creation, Sharing, and Dissemination

7. But need to better understand Barriers to access Modes of knowledge creation Cultures of sharing

8. What is Bioline International? Electronic aggregator of full text journals from developing countries OAI data provider Serve as open access platform for journals without the necessary infrastructure A South-North collaboration

9. Bioline International Development - using open source software and open standards Advocacy - Aims to influence scholarly communication practices, access to research literature, and funding support Research - Will open access improve the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries? How effective are research libraries in enabling international collaboration?

10. Core Partners EPT, UK CRIA, Brazil http://www.cria.org.brhttp://www.cria.org.br UT, Canada

11. The Reference Center on Environmental Information, CRIA, is a not-for-profit, non- governmental organization that aims to contribute towards a more sustainable use of Brazil’s Biodiversity through the dissemination of high quality information and education.

12. Funding Support University of Toronto Libraries Department of Social Sciences, U of T at Scarborough Open Society Institute, Information Access Program

13. Publishing Partners Scholarly and Scientific societies from 17 countries Research centres in biology and medicine, university- based publications, All non-profit and willing to experiment with free online access Most are supported by local subsidies and international aids Most have poor print circulation and no online presence

14. Meta-data exchange and dissemination partners Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org/http://www.doaj.org/ The eGranary Digital Library - http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ OAIster.org - http://www.oaister.org/http://www.oaister.org/ Scientific and Technical Information System - http://sist- prototype.sist-sciencesdev.net/http://sist- prototype.sist-sciencesdev.net/ University of Toronto Libraries - T-Space - https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/ https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/ New Partnership with SPARC since May 2006 - work with ARL libraries

17. Recent additions (support from OSI) International Journal of Environment Science and Technology (Iran) Iranian Journal of Environmental Health, Science and Engineering African Health Sciences (Uganda) Health Policy and Development Journal (Uganda) Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences VITAE Academia Biomedica Digital (Venezuela) Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran Iranian Journal of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (Bangladesh) African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (Kenya)

19. Key events: June 2003, full open access Jan 2005, full OAI compliant

20. Increased visibility Traditional directories and indexes ( e.g. EBSCO’s A-Z service, Ulrich’s Serials Directory), ISI Web Content Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), African Journal Online (AJOL), Virtual Health Library of Latin America and Caribbean (BRIME), Latindex, Africa Index Medicus, eGranary Digital Library Accessibility from library catalogs through OpenURL Also accessible through HINARI and AGORA

21. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine Quarterly journal Based in Mumbai, India Print circulation <400 –Limited to school Paid subscription ~100 –Majority from India 50-80 articles published / year

22. Making more accessible JPGM at Bioline

23. Archived at multiple places JPGM at OAI server

24. JPGM at PubMed

25. www.jpgmonline.com

26. JPGM at DOAJ

27. Circle of Accessibility JPGMPubMed Directories e.g. DOAJ OAI servers T-Space Bioline International Search Engines Library catalogues OAI services e.g. OAIster.org Search Engines

28. Downloads and visitors Data: D.K. Sahu

29. Geographic distribution of visitors (n = 500)

30. Article submissions

31. International submissions

32. Projected Impact Factor

33. Economics of OA-P for India

34. Effect of OA on subscriptions

35. OA as a tool for dissemination Open access Increased visibility Larger readership Wider recognition Increased citations More authors and other benefits Circle of accessibility

36. Conclusions OA is increasing the visibility, accessibility and impact of some of the journals from developing countries Need to develop value-added service with OA databases Alternative measure of research impact is emerging but OA is the foundation

37. Thank you!