Academic library repository access policy in Indonesia: recent policy updates

Scientometric indexes, based on citations, may be increased by open access (OA) publishing. We aimed to present the scientometric data of of rheumatology journals and analyze the scientometric data of rheumatology journals according to the OA publication policy. Scientometric indexes and bibliometric data of 22 journals were obtained from Clarivate Analytics InCites, Scopus, and Scimago Journal & Country Rank websites. We included journal impact factor (JIF), CiteScore (CS), Hirsch index (HI), Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), Eigenfactor score (ES), and Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR). We separated the OA publishing policies into full OA and hybrid OA. The US dollar (USD) was used as the requested fee unit. All pairs of scientometric indexes had positive significant correlations. However, a journal in the first quartile of JIF was observed in the second quartile of CS, SNIP, and SJR, and the last quartile of ES and HI. Scientometric indexes of of full and hybrid OA journals were similar, apart from HI, which was higher in hybrid OA journals (p = 0.03, Mann-Whitney U test). However, full OA journal fees were less expensive by a median of 935 USD (p = 0.007, Mann-Whitney U test). We recommend that the JIF and HI pair or the ES paired with CS or SNIP be used together to evaluate rheumatology journals. We failed to show that the OA model positively affects the scientometric indexes of rheumatology journals; our results contradict the literature reporting that the OA publication model causes an increase in citations. Key Points •Clinicians should understand the scientometric indexes in rheumatology and if open access publishing affects citations (therefore, scientometric indexes). •The JIF and HI pair or the ES paired with CS or SNIP can be used to express different rankings since they are based on different databases and use different calculation methods. •We show that OA publication does not affect citations or scientometric indexes of rheumatology journals. •When choosing a rheumatology journal to publish OA, rheumatologists should consider individual OA citation patterns and APC charges together.

Getting open access right matters because the new publishing model is designed to increase the pace and impact of scientific communication through the power of the Internet. Immediate, free publication increases the audience for scientific research and overcomes the increasingly high price barrier to access imposed by the traditional, subscription-based publishing model N.B., this audience is comprised of both human readers and their computers, which function more effectively when browsing text on the open web. Liberal reuse rights permit users to republish, quote liberally, and to overcome language barriers through translation [3]. To accomplish these important objectives, the open-access model makes two structural changes to the traditional, subscription-based model. The first is to shift the financing for publication from readers, through subscription fees, to authors (often through their funders), through article processing fees. The second is to shift from a model that uses copyright to control reuse of content to one that uses copyright to encourage republication, preservation, and translation.

Objective. To provide an overview of journal-level metrics of Plastic Surgery (PS) journals (PSJs) by 1-year journal impact factor (2021JIF), total citations (TCs), and number of issues per year (NIYs) related to publishing models and publication costs for the authors.Methods. Cross-sectional bibliometric analysis of PS indexed peer-reviewed journals. Collected data were 2021JIF, TCs, NIY, and full Open Access (OA), Subscription-based, Hybrid models by Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2021 directory (Web of Science), NIH catalogue (Medline), EMBASE, Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ), journals’ websites. Descriptive statistics, correlation indexes (r) among 2021JIFs, TCs, NIYs, and APCs calculated by Microsoft Excel for Mac (version 16.16.27), XLSTAT statistical software for parametric tests (t-test); the cell value under 5% considered significant. The main outcome measure was the correlation between 2021JIFs, TCs, NIYs, and APCs. Results. Hybrid model present in 72.09%, full OA in 16.27% full OA, and Subscription-based in 13.95% of the PS journals. Mean APC of Hybrid was significantly higher than OA (p = 0.022) and Subscription- based (p = 0.007) models. There was no significant difference between mean 2021JIFs of Hybrid and full OA (p = 0.205), and Subscription- based (p = 0.245) models; no positive correlation between APCs and 2021JIFs [r = 0.35 in the full OA, r = 0.25 in the Hybrid, and r = 0.29 in the Subscription-based subgroups]; slight correlation between NIYs and APCs in the full OA and Hybrid subgroups. Median APC of the Hybrid (€ 3.010) was 56% more than the full OA model (€ 1.325); 17/43 (39.53%) journals offer waivers. Conclusions. The Hybrid was the prevalent model over full OA and Subscription-based, had higher APCs but not significantly different 2021JIFs. The choice of the journal upon which to publish should ground on BAs, contents’ quality, consistency with the intents of the scientific boards, methods of peer-reviewing, and transparent information of the publishers.

ABSTRACTRecently, open access has gradually become an important publishing model in scientific research, while the academic purification effect of open access on flawed publications needs to be further explored. In this study, we use the methods of entropy balancing matching (EBM) and difference in difference (DID) in causal inference to examine the academic purification effect of different open access levels. The results show that in the retraction speed, limited open access papers had the slowest retraction speed, non‐open access had the second and full open access had the fastest, reflecting the best performance of full open access in the detection of problematic papers. As for post‐retraction citation changes, the citation of limited open access papers declined slightly slower than that of non‐open access papers after retraction, while the citation of full open access papers showed an increase rather than a decrease. The next step of the research is to discover what factors may cause the above results.

Purpose:This retrospective database analysis study aims to present the scientometric data of journals publishing in the field of ophthalmology and to compare the scientometric data of ophthalmology journals according to the open access (OA) publishing policies.Methods:The scientometric data of 48 journals were obtained from Clarivate Analytics InCites and Scimago Journal & Country Rank websites. Journal impact factor (JIF), Eigenfactor score (ES), scientific journal ranking (SJR), and Hirsch index (HI) were included. The OA publishing policies were separated into full OA with publishing fees, full OA without fees, and hybrid OA. The fees were stated as US dollars (USD).Results:Four scientometric indexes had strong positive correlations; the highest correlation coefficients were observed between the SJR and JIF (R = 0.906) and the SJR and HI (R = 0.798). However, journals in the first quartile according to JIF were in the second and third quartiles according to the SJR and HI and in the fourth quartile in the ES. The OA articles published in hybrid journals received a median of 1.17-fold (0.15–2.71) more citations. Only HI was higher in hybrid OA; other scientometric indexes were similar with full OA journals. Full OA journals charged a median of 1525 USD lower than hybrid journals.Conclusion:Full OA model in ophthalmology journals does not have a positive effect on the scientometric indexes. In hybrid OA journals, choosing to publish OA may increase citations, but it would be more accurate to evaluate this on a journal basis.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the training of college librarians, academic and management staff, IT managers and students on how to organise, manage and use a user-friendly library. In Uganda, as in many countries, the problem is that school and/or college libraries are managed by librarians who may have good cataloguing and management skills, but who do not have the pedagogic skills and knowledge of the school curricula that are necessary for librarians to be able to guide and mentor both teachers and students or organise curriculum-related activities or facilitate research. The development of user-friendly libraries contributes in improving education quality through nurturing the interest of students and teachers in literacy activities and active search for knowledge. Under the stewardship of the Belgium Technical Cooperation and the Ministry of Education in Uganda, library stakeholders were trained on how to put users – rather than themselves – in the centre of the library’s operations and introduced to active teaching and learning methodologies and activities with emphasis on getting engaged in transforming spaces, services, outreach to users and collections. Several measures, short and long term were taken to address the gaps limiting the performance of the librarians. Given the disparities in the trainees’ education level and work experience, the training was delivered in seven modules divided into three units for over eight months in 2015. By the end of the training, trainees developed unique library strategic plan, library policies and procedures, capacity to use library systems, physical design and maintenance systems, partnerships, library structure and staff job descriptions. Design/methodology/approach To effectively engage the participants each topic was conducted using active teaching and learning (ATL) methodologies, including: lecture with slides and hands-on practice – each topic was introduced in a lecture form with slides and hands-on exercises. The main goal was to introduce the participants to the concepts discussed, offer opportunities to explore alternative approaches, as well define boundaries for discussion through brainstorming. The question-answer approach kept the participants alert and to start thinking critically on the topic discussed – brainstorming sessions allowed thinking beyond the presentation room, drawing from personal experiences to provide alternatives to anticipated challenges. The goal here was for the participants to provide individual choices and approaches for real life problems; group discussions: case study/ scenario and participant presentations – participants were provided with a scenario and asked to provide alternative approaches that could solve the problem based on their personal experience at their colleges. By the end of the group discussion, participants presented a draft of the deliverable as per the topic under discussion. More so, group discussions were an excellent approach to test participant’s teamwork skills and ability to compromise, as well as respecting team decisions. It was an opportunity to see how librarians will work with the library committees. Group discussions further initiated and cemented the much-needed librarian–academic staff – college management relationship. During the group discussion, librarians, teaching staff, ICT staff and college management staff, specifically the Principals and Deputy Principals interacted freely thus starting and cultivating a new era of work relationship between them. Individual presentation: prior to the workshop, participants were sent instructions to prepare a presentation on a topic. For example, participants were asked to provide their views of what a “user-friendly library” would look like or what would constitute a “user-friendly library”; the college library of HTC-Mulago was asked to talk about their experience working with book reserves, challenges faced and plans they have to address the challenges, while the college librarian from NTC-Kaliro was asked to describe a situation where they were able to assist a patron, the limitations they faced and how they addressed them. Doing so did not only assist to emotionally prepare the participants for the training but also helped to make them start thinking about the training in relation to their libraries and work. Take-home assignment: at the end of each session, participants were given home assignments to not only revise the training material but also prepare for the next day training. Further the take-home assignments provided time for the participants to discuss with their colleagues outside of the training room so as to have a common ground/ understanding on some of the very sensitive issues. Most interesting assignment was when participants were asked to review an article and to make a presentation in relation to their library experiences. Participant reports: participant reports resulted from the take-home assignments and participants were asked to make submission on a given topic. For example, participants were asked to review IFLA section on library management and write a two-page report on how such information provided supported their own work, as well as a participant report came from their own observation after a library visit. Invited talks with library expert: two invited talks by library experts from Consortium of Uganda University Libraries and Uganda Library and Information Science Association with the goal to share their experience, motivate the participants to strive higher and achieve great things for their libraries. Library visitation: there were two library visits conducted on three separate days – International Hospital Kampala (IHK) Library, Makerere University Library and Aga Khan University Hospital Library. Each of these library visits provided unique opportunities for the participants to explore best practices and implement similar practices in their libraries. Visual aids – videos, building plans and still photos: these were visual learning aids to supplement text during the lectures because they carried lot of information while initiating different thoughts best on the participants’ past experience and expertise. The training advocated for the use of ATL methodologies and likewise similar methodologies were used to encourage participants do so in their classrooms. Findings Addressing Key Concerns: Several measures, both long and short term, were taken to address the gaps limiting the performance of the librarians. The measures taken included: selected representative sample of participants including all college stakeholders as discussed above; active teaching and learning methodologies applied in the training and blended in the content of the training materials; initiated and formulated approaches to collaborations, networks and partnerships; visited different libraries to benchmark library practices and encourage future job shadowing opportunities; and encouraged participants to relate freely, understand and value each other’s work to change their mindsets. College librarians were encouraged to ensure library priorities remain on the agenda through advocacy campaigns. Short-term measures: The UFL training was designed as a practical and hands-on training blended with individual and group tasks, discussions, take-home assignments and presentations by participants. This allowed participates to engage with the material and take responsibility for their own work. Further, the training material was prepared with a view that librarians support the academic life of teaching staff and students. Participants were tasked to develop and later fine-tune materials designed to support their work. For example, developing a subject bibliography and posting it on the library website designed using open source tools such as Google website, Wikis, blogs. The developed library manual includes user-friendly policies and procedures referred to as “dos and don’ts in the library” that promote equitable open access to information; drafting book selection memos; new book arrivals lists; subscribing to open access journals; current awareness services and selective dissemination of information service displays and electronic bulletins. Based on their library needs and semester calendar, participants developed action points and timelines to implement tasks in their libraries at the end of each unit training. Librarians were encouraged to share their experiences through library websites, Facebook page, group e-mail/listserv and Instagram; however, they were challenged with intimate internet access. College libraries were rewarded for their extraordinary job. Given their pivotal role in the management and administration of financial and material resources, on top of librarians, the participants in this training were college administrators/ management, teaching and ICT staff, researchers and student leadership. Participants were selected to address the current and future needs of the college library. These are individuals that are perceived to have a great impact towards furthering the college library agenda. The practical nature of this training warranted conducting the workshops from developed but similar library spaces, for example, Aga Khan University Library and Kampala Capital City, Makerere University Library, International Hospital Kampala Library and Uganda Christian University Library. Participants observed orientation sessions, reference desk management and interviews, collection management practices, preservation and conservation, secretarial bureau management, etc. Long-term measures: Changing the mindset of librarians, college administrators and t

Introduction. Several academic libraries have implemented restrictions on repository access in recent years. This study explores the phenomenon of restricted access in academic libraries in managing their repositories. Method. This research uses a qualitative approach through interviews with six librarians from three academic libraries in the Special Region of Yogyakarta that have implemented repository access restrictions. Locations were selected through online observations of repository websites and direct. Library heads and staff involved in or understanding the access restriction process were selected purposively as informants. Data Analysis. The interview data were analyzed using reduction and thematic categorization techniques. The data were presented and analyzed to draw conclusions. Results and Discussion. Librarians, who generally support open access, face requests from faculty and university leadership to restrict access. Restrictions are implemented to protect intellectual rights and sensitive data, to maintain physical visits to the library. Other factors include concerns about plagiarism, personal data protection, patent rights, and preventing the illegal document distribution. Conclusion. There are eight factors in restricting access to academic library repositories. Access restrictions are based on the dynamic policies among stakeholders within the university. This study provides insights for academic library policymakers in balancing open access with intellectual property rights protection.

<b>Recommendations about publishing and publication procurement practices across the health and social care system</b><br /> <br /> November 2020<br /> <br /> An independent report by Information Power<br /> <br /> <b>Introduction</b><br /> This study was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care and Health Education England to inform development of Open Access (OA) strategy and policy in the UK health and social care system. OA ensures that research publications, such as journal articles or books, are freely available online to everyone for access to read and re-use. There are new opportunities to embrace OA approaches that have already been developed, tested, and proven effective for medical research funders, by Plan S [link: <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/">https://www.coalition-s.org/</a>] for example, and for employers, by members of Universities UK [link: <a href="https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/research-policy/open-science/Pages/uuk-open-access-coordination-group.aspx">https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/research-policy/open-science/Pages/uuk-open-access-coordination-group.aspx</a>] for example.<br /> <br /> The NHS in England is undertaking more research than ever before. However, investment on access to research outputs, through library subscriptions, is relatively low. The available data suggests that Arm’s Length Bodies collectively spend under &pound;1m per annum on primary journals and a similar amount per annum on journals in aggregated databases. NHS Trusts collectively spend an estimated &pound;4m per annum on journal subscriptions. Taken together, the combined NHS expenditure is less than a single medium-sized UK university which seems starkly out of alignment with the importance of evidence-based care decisions.<br /> <br /> In addition, NIHR spends a significant amount to publish articles that report on its funded research. We estimate that this figure is in excess of &pound;10m per annum, however the precise figure is unknown because costs are included in grants awarded through a range of programmes, and open access expenditure is not explicitly tracked at present. We analysed 121,915 papers published between 2015 -2019 by authors employed in, or funded through, the UK health and social care system. 85,542 or 70% of the papers were published Open Access (OA) which means they are freely available for anyone in the world to read. 34% of the total articles are immediately available (19% of all papers were published as fully Gold OA, and 15% as hybrid Gold OA) and 36% of the total articles are available after a delay period of six months (19% were published and made available as Green OA, and 17% as Bronze OA).<br /> <br /> Publishing costs have been paid upfront&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <ul> <li>Gold – costs typically paid by author from research grants</li> <li>Platinum – costs typically paid by employer, funder, or another sponsor often with a per-article charge</li> <li>Diamond – costs typically paid by employer, funder, or another sponsor without any per-article charge</li> </ul> <br /> Near-final draft has been shared publicly, after a delay of six months: <ul> <li>Green – a version of the article (either the manuscript as originally submitted or as accepted, or the final published version) is shared via an institutional repository or subject repository</li> <li>Bronze – a version of the article is shared via the publisher’s site</li> </ul> This represents good compliance with the NIHR OA mandate, and there is scope for further improvement. Papers with a co-author affiliated with a higher education university are more likely to be available OA (80% vs. 65%). There is some degree of overlap, of course, as some papers include authors from both sectors. This suggests that looking to good practice in the UK university sector offers insight about good ways forward.<br /> <br /> Our qualitative research suggests that there is support for the principles of Open Access by researchers, research managers, and library and information professionals in the health and social care system. Funding for APCs is the primary barrier to researchers publishing their articles OA, however researchers affiliated to, or collaborating with someone affiliated to, universities have less difficulty making their research outputs available OA. Central funding, for example block grants, would drive beneficial change as would centralised and strengthened engagement with publishers, and more education and training. Finally, OA is essential but not enough in itself as there is a clear need for short, actionable summaries of research outputs to inform clinical practice.<br /> <br /> The following recommendations focus on opportunities to increase value for money to the taxpayer by eliminating elements of double payment in this system (for subscriptions and OA publication), by raising standards through better access to research information, and by ensuring publicly funded research information is opened for wider economic and social gain.<br /> <br /> <b>Recommendations to project sponsors</b><br /> <br /> (1) Develop a shared OA strategy and common policies and principles<br /> <br /> A shared OA strategy across the health and social care system is needed to advance the quality and speed of research, and to enable equitable access to knowledge. By working together across the DHSC, NIHR, and Arm’s Length Bodies it will be possible to best leverage the sector’s scale, align and change practice, avoid duplication of effort, and obtain best value for money. The NIHR Open Access policy and the Concordat for Maximising Digital Knowledge are good vehicles for this, and the recommendations in this report can form the basis of a shared approach.<br /> <br /> Common policy and high-level principles would enable organisations to focus on collaborative action to drive immediate open access for health and social care system research outputs. NIHR’s direction of travel (i.e., immediate open access with no embargos, no barriers to re-use and dissemination, publications freely discoverable, and reasonable costs covered) resonates with stakeholders with whom we engaged.<br /> <br /> A coordination group across the DHSC, NIHR, and Arm’s Length Bodies is needed to align goals and behaviour, to promote mutual understanding, to cut through complexities and obstacles, and to cultivate buy-in and consensus over time.<br /> <br /> (2) Invest in financial, publication, and compliance tracking<br /> <br /> In order to monitor the impact of your strategy and policies, more attention is needed to build a database that will enable you to understand how information is created, accessed, paid for, and used in the health and social care system. More attention to data gathering can also help you to set policies, negotiate with publishers, and make the case to DHSC for funding.<br /> <br /> We recommend that you establish reliable methods for monitoring research publications going forward: <ul> <li>invest in databases such as Dimensions, Scopus, or Web of Science, and/or by implementing CRIS systems so your researchers or librarians can track research outputs. There are costs in terms of both time and money to each approach.</li> <li>ask Dimensions to set up GRID codes for the remaining organisations, to facilitate future tracking; this can be done relatively simply and at no cost.</li> <li>ensure RORs [link: <a href="https://ror.org/">https://ror.org/</a>] are created for each organisation in the health and social care system and consider working with database providers such as Dimensions, Scopus, and Web of Science (and other similar service providers) to give them the identifiers they would need to improve their matching algorithms.</li> <li>ensure researchers in the health and social care system have ORCID [link: <a href="https://orcid.org/">https://orcid.org/</a>] researcher identification numbers.</li> <li>improve data in ResearchFish by encouraging researchers to supply the DOI of the final published version of articles and to ensure correct employer and funder affiliation data is included in their articles.</li> <li>review what instructions are given to these researchers regarding the correct acknowledgment of employer and funder/s in papers, making sure that the text is specific about how NIHR and the Arm’s Length Bodies should be cited.</li> <li>seek information from other funders for insight into best practice in encouraging grant recipients to include correct employer and funder acknowledgments in papers.</li> <li>track all expenditure made with any publisher, both for subscriptions and for OA. The negotiation of more cost-effective agreements with publishers also requires reliable data about the amounts paid for APCs and of all articles written by affiliated researchers.</li> </ul> <br /> To maximize compliance with your open access policies, incentives and sanctions will be needed. Enabling only papers immediately available open access to be entered for hiring and promotion decisions would be a powerful incentive. Ineligibility for further NIHR funding would be a powerful sanction.<br /> <br /> Ensure that all Arm’s Length Bodies and NHS Trusts are accountable for ensuring the research of their staff members is available open access immediately upon publication. Interviews with researchers suggested that they receive little or no organisational support to make their outputs open access unless they are in the privileged position of having a joint appointment to a higher education institution.<br /> <br /> Rather than have OA funding follow the grant and be administered by individual researchers, we recommend you consider ways of channelling OA funding via these employers, for example by using block grants. While there is a different sort of bureaucracy involved with these, by transmitting money to organisations in this way you would create an environment with increased accountability which will drive up compliance with your policies.<br /> <br /> (3) Invest in improved access to research information<br /> <br /> We recommend you explore ways to increase investment to ensure that researchers and clinicians can both access to the best scientific information from around the world and publish their research articles open access. The public contributor workshops carried out by NIHR as part of their OA policy review identified that even if patients and the public do not access primary research themselves, they expect that clinicians and care practitioners do and are making decisions based on the best scientific information.<br /> <br /> The NHS in England is undertaking more research than ever before. However, investment on access to research outputs, through library subscriptions, is relatively low. The available data suggests that Arm’s Length Bodies collectively spend under &pound;1m per annum on primary journals and a similar amount per annum on journals in aggregated databases. NHS Trusts collectively spend an estimated &pound;4m per annum on journal subscriptions. Taken together, the combined NHS expenditure is less than a single medium-sized UK university which seems starkly out of alignment with the importance of evidence-based care decisions.<br /> <br /> Based on pilots already done [link: <a href="https://community.jisc.ac.uk/system/files/515/NHS%20%28Finch%29%20Pilot%20outcomes%20Nov%202016%20and%20Cochrane%20website%20sharing.pdf">https://community.jisc.ac.uk/system/files/515/NHS%20%28Finch%29%20Pilot%20outcomes%20Nov%202016%20and%20Cochrane%20website%20sharing.pdf</a>], we estimate that providing subscription access to the scope of scientific journals available in UK universities would cost an additional of &pound;1-2m / year. This investment could be targeted in various ways, but one approach to consider is targeting on the journals in which researchers linked to DHSC Arm’s Length Bodies and NHS Trusts publish, but to which there is no access. We also encourage continued migration to central discovery platforms and services.<br /> <br /> NIHR spends a significant but unknown amount per annum on APCs for journal articles. In 2019, 27,416 articles were published by researchers linked to DHSC Arm’s Length Bodies and NHS Trusts. While the good news is that 70% are OA, 30% remain behind publishers’ paywalls. Providing financial support to ensure all research outputs are published gold OA could therefore cost an additional of &pound;17.7m [unfunded articles 8256 x average APC &pound;2147 = &pound;17,725,632].&nbsp; This is clearly a significant additional expenditure, but by implementing the other recommendations in this paper it is possible to significantly reduce this figure.<br /> <br /> (4) Centralise and strengthen your negotiations with publishers, ideally in partnership with UK universities<br /> <br /> Currently the journal content available via HEE is acquired through public sector procurement processes. Whilst this helps ensure best value in markets where there is a choice of supplier, it not ideal in a market where publisher’s journal content is unique and cannot be obtained via other providers. Neither are public sector procurement process designed for the detailed discussion and negotiations needed to develop innovative OA journal agreements which cover both accesses to journal content, and publication in those same journals.&nbsp; We encourage you to centralise and strengthen your engagement with publishers.<br /> <br /> We recommend that you implement a system-wide policy to avoid any form of Non-Disclosure Agreement with publishers. We were rather concerned that one of the Arm’s Length Bodies had done so and were therefore unable to share their expenditure information with any other Arm’s Length Body.<br /> <br /> We recommend you explore a collaborative partnership with Jisc Collections so that your negotiating strength and power is coupled with those of UK universities. This leverage is your best option to control costs and secure better publishing agreements from a range of relevant publishers but particularly the largest. Between them Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley publish 54% of NIHR-funded papers.<br /> <br /> Jisc is expert in negotiating cost-effective journal agreements, but does not have deep sectoral knowledge. We therefore recommend the creation of a strong steering group chaired by HEE to guide them.&nbsp; A potential investment could be the appointment or secondment of a member of staff at Jisc to strengthen their understanding of the health sector and medical publishers.<br /> <br /> Where there are publishers who are important for the health and social care system, but not the HEI part of it, then consider strengthening your own negotiations by partnering with the Royal Colleges and strengthening the knowledge and skills of the NICE negotiating team.<br /> <br /> (5) Pivot to Read &amp; Publish agreements with publishers<br /> <br /> In order to maximise value for the public purse, we recommend you bring together your subscription spend with publishers with your expenditure for OA publishing and seek agreements with publishers that support both reading and publishing. This means that affiliated authors can publish OA without paying an APC. PHE has already done some experimentation in securing such agreements with publishers.<br /> <br /> We recommend that you seek OA agreements with small and medium sized publishers as well as large publishers. There is quality content produced by Society and other publishers, and it is essential for cost constraint that there is good competition between publishers for authors.<br /> <br /> In advance of any negotiations, we recommend that any publisher with whom you have an agreement is required to complete and return a data collection template.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> In the absence of such agreements, we recommend that you do not provide funding for OA publications in a publisher’s hybrid titles. This is because your existing subscription expenditure will give you full access to the content in these titles, and additional APC payments do not lead to a transition to full OA, merely boost publisher profits and surplus.<br /> <br /> (5) Retain your copyright and publish under open licences<br /> <br /> A very powerful way to increase your negotiation power with publishers is to encourage or require employees in the health and social care system to retain necessary copyrights. This is already a requirement for Crown Servants. We recommend that as a condition of NIHR funding, or employment with an Arm’s Length Body, researchers should be required to retain sufficient intellectual property rights to comply with their funder and employer OA requirements.<br /> <br /> Attention also needs to be paid to education around, and compliance tracking of, the open licences attached to OA articles published by researchers in the health and social care system. We strongly recommend use of Creative Commons (CC-BY) and Open Government (OGL) licences across the health and social care system, especially as rights need to be retained in order to enable immediate green OA (see next recommendation).<br /> <br /> DHSC, its Arm’s Length Bodies, and NHS Trusts all publish reports and other materials on their websites. The copyright status of these publications is often unclear, and we would encourage you to use a CC-BY or OGL license wherever possible on these publications.<br /> <br /> (7) Immediate green OA for articles not published gold OA<br /> <br /> As the proportion of articles published OA in the health and social care system grows, you need to ensure that any articles published under the subscription model also become immediately available. Including green OA options – specifically the immediate self-archiving of peer reviewed accepted manuscripts in one health-oriented repository such as Europe PMC – should be an essential part of your strategy. Including this requirement in your agreement with publishers will enable you to maximise OA outputs while constraining costs.<br /> <br /> Understandably publishers have been unwilling to agree to immediate green OA, and there is too often little incentive for them to do so. The immediate availability of accepted manuscripts under a CC-BY licence is perceived by publishers as likely to undermine the value of their subscription sales in all other parts of the world. Every new article published OA and brought out in front of their paywall not only erodes the value of subscription sales to other parts of the world, but can also fuel rival online services underpinned by so-called black OA (i.e., content piracy) [link: Gold, green, and black open access by Bo‐Christer Bj&ouml;rk <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1096">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1096</a>].<br /> <br /> The debate around whether there is risk to publishers of short embargo green OA is as heated as it is long standing. We take a pragmatic view: only the test of time will prove whether or not there is a real risk to subscription revenue from short embargo green OA, however publisher perceptions of risk mean few are willing to incorporate short embargo green OA into their transformative (and other OA) agreements. It is in their interest to control costs and therefore pragmatic for the health and social care system to find a way forward.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Publishers incur new costs to provide new OA services (e.g. adding author and funder metadata, informing authors about terms of agreements, encouraging authors to share articles providing new reports and metadata, etc). Where publishers expect an uplift in price in exchange for uncapped article numbers in a transformative agreement because the level of publishing output is high, and are willing to provide these new OA services, then we recommend modest financial incentives in otherwise cost-neutral agreements to incentivise the inclusion of immediate green OA. This would help the health and social care system secure more affordable transformative agreements and enable researchers to retain a wide choice in where they publish while delivering both full OA and maximising value for money.<br /> <br /> (8) Open sharing platforms<br /> <br /> Shared infrastructure is required to support the cost-effective dissemination of open outputs by your researchers. A collective approach should be part of your strategy to ensure access to research outputs is not fragmented across different organisations and services, and to avoid duplication of costs.<br /> <br /> In developing the common strategy for this infrastructure is important not to reinvent wheels but to explore the utilisation of existing open platforms.&nbsp; NIHR is one of the funders of Europe PubMed Central which is an open-access repository containing millions of biomedical research papers and has potential to serve as a shared repository service for all your affiliated authors.<br /> <br /> Longer term, you may want to consider not only a repository for access to research, but an open shared platform for publishing NHS health and care research. The AMRC (Association of Medical Research Charities) and Wellcome Trust both maintain open research platforms on which all their funded researchers can publish OA any results they think are worth sharing at an extremely low price. Publication is fast, there is transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available. AMRC Open Research publishes other research outputs, for example posters, slides, and documents, reporting any basic scientific, translational, applied, and clinical research studies: we heard at the round table that these types of research output are as important to the health and care sector as scholarly research. Both the AMRC and Wellcome Trust open platforms use technology provided by F1000 Research Limited.<br /> <br /> A shared open platform such as F1000 research could be helpful in decreasing the costs of OA publishing. The list price of publishing a research article on such a platform is only $1350 per article as opposed to nearly $3000 per article in journals.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> <br /> (9) More OA education and training<br /> <br /> Our interviews revealed widespread support for the principles of open access, but fragmented understanding of all the flavours of open access and constraints to supporting its delivery in practice. The specific requirements vary by stakeholder group and include: <ul> <li>Libraries – open access models, how to support researchers to publish open access, how to work with publishers to maximise open access outputs and constrain costs for access to research, supporting researchers to share via Europe PMC</li> <li>Researchers – open access models, how to obtain funding to support open access publishing, how to identify and avoid predatory journals, how to correctly use unique identifiers for funders/grants/employers/co-authors</li> <li>Research managers – why a research culture is important to the health and social care section, how to define the impact of research undertaken, why it is important that research outputs are available to all, what open access is, open access models, how to ensure research is immediately available open access</li> </ul> We recommend you develop education and training materials and courses that can be used across the health and social care system to minimise confusion and to provide consistent information and guidance.<br /> <br /> (10) Require overviews of research in plain English, and provide training and support to enable compliance<br /> <br /> Your shared strategy and common policies and principles must consider ’actionable knowledge', as well as open access. Research findings must inform practitioner decisions and practice. Plain English summaries of research outputs will aid busy practitioners who do not have time to read research articles, as well as patients and members of the /> There are already some of good practice in the <ul> NIHR for and is and and sharing them across a stakeholder NIHR guidance to researchers on how to plain English are also available services and which could in this example, [link: <a which is a to researchers, them to their work in plain English, and to their by adding and [link: <a is a service which to create a of research articles.</li> </ul>

This study aims to analyze the influence of Good University Governance (GUG) on the quality of library services in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Good University Governance, which encompasses the principles of transparency, accountability, responsibility, independence, and fairness, is believed to contribute to the improvement of service quality, including within university libraries as centers of information and learning. The research object consists of university libraries located in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data were collected using a purposive sampling approach, where informants were selected based on specific considerations relevant to the research objectives. The data collection methods included both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative data were obtained through questionnaires using a Likert scale, while qualitative data were gathered through interviews with several library heads. The findings indicate that transparency, responsibility, and independence have a significant influence on the quality of library services. However, accountability and fairness do not appear to have a significant impact.

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This study examines the performance evaluation of service quality and user satisfaction in selected Zimbabwe university libraries. The study objectives were to establish reasons for the criticality of performance evaluation in university libraries, to identify the aspects of performance evaluation standards that contribute the most to service quality and user satisfaction, to examine how the service quality of libraries is affected by technologies, to assess service quality characteristics that contribute to user satisfaction, and to evaluate the decline in the usage statistics of the selected university libraries This study aimed to determine the centrality of the performance assessment of service quality and user satisfaction. The focus is on the selected institutions in Zimbabwe. The study further identifies the contextual areas affecting service quality, user satisfaction, and performance evaluation methods. It provides an opportunity to advance our knowledge of library operations and services, improve our understanding of user expectations, and enhance efficient service delivery. This is crucial in the Information Science fraternity in several ways. For instance, the theoretical perspectives of the study are intended to provide and contribute to the knowledge of performance evaluation of service quality and user satisfaction in university libraries in Zimbabwe. The study adopts the Expectation Confirmation Theory (ECT) as the theoretical lens to view the research hypotheses. It also uses a pragmatic paradigm to address the different research questions. The study also employs a combined quantitative and qualitative approach using a survey questionnaire, interviews, and observation for data collection. A survey questionnaire was administered to 1330 postgraduate library users, and semi structured interviews were conducted with nine purposively selected library managers. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis, while quantitative data were analysed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) 2021 to generate descriptive and inferential statistics to actualise the study's objectives. The reliability and validity of the instruments were ascertained through test retest reliability using Cronbach's alpha on 30 postgraduate students from a university that was not selected. A reliability analysis was conducted on an instrument comprising 43 items. The Cronbach's alpha showed that the questionnaire had acceptable reliability (α = 0.852). The study adhered to the ethical protocol of the University of KwaZulu Natal. The study findings established that respondents strongly felt that performance evaluation, user feedback, and user suggestions of library services are more critical to library performance and improving library services. The results revealed that library policies, procedures, and regulations affect most service quality and user satisfaction. The findings of this study showed that the use of computers has increased library performance. It was also found that physical library visits declined owing to the proliferation of technologies. The findings indicate that libraries have resources and facilities that meet users' needs. The library staff were highly commendable. The study concludes that variables such as performance evaluation, service quality, and user satisfaction contribute to library service quality. The study also concluded that university libraries that subscribe to local and international associations and organisations develop more in their management. The selected libraries can raise their standards by becoming members of local and international associations. It was concluded that the availability of electronic resources enhances research quality by supplementing hard copies. University libraries should invest in electronic resources and ensure that they subscribe to various of these resources to increase the accessibility of their collections. The study recommended that work on performance measurement and evaluation be performed regularly. Every academic library's measurement and evaluation team must suggest proper planning for conducting performance surveys. The study also recommends that specific standards be observed to allow university libraries to use different indicators and the revised standards procedures in their operations. There was a need for collaborative efforts through national associations (ZimLA), Zimbabwe Library Consortia, and other international associations (IF LA, AFLIA and American Library Association (ALA). The study recommends that university libraries keep pace with the latest technological advancements. The study also recommends that library management create a section in the library dedicated to eliciting user needs. This study also recommends that library staff be trained and retrained on how to maintain library statistics. The findings, conclusions, and recommendations will help university libraries strengthen their systems and strategies for improving the provision of their services. More importantly, evidence based modern benchmarking tools will usher in a new dimension of managing university libraries. The study proposes a more refined model and instrument for measuring the service quality and user satisfaction of libraries. Finally, this study has the potential to improve the user experience of university libraries.

Diversity in society, whether in terms of religion, language, ethnicity, tribe, and so on, is an unavoidable fact, especially for the Indonesian people. Therefore, this diversity must be managed and accommodated effectively to prevent it from becoming a threat that could lead to vertical or horizontal conflict. This research aims to. 1) finding out the pattern of strengthening tolerance in religious moderation villages in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, 2) finding out local actors involved in strengthening tolerance in religious moderation villages in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, and 3) finding out the implications for the resilience of Pancasila ideology in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. This study uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive research method. The data collection technique in this study used in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and documentation. The data validity test used was data triangulation, and the triangulation of data analysis methods and techniques used was interactive data analysis. The results of the study show that the pattern of strengthening religious tolerance is carried out by the village government in collaboration with religious leaders and community leaders by organizing Pancasila birthday gadgets (June 1), regular interfaith dialogues, and involving religious leaders in various activities. Local actors involved in strengthening tolerance in religious moderation villages are village heads, hamlet heads, religious leaders, community leaders, and youth leaders. Strengthening tolerance through religious moderation in villages has implications for increasing the resilience of Pancasila ideology in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, considering that the religious level of the community is increasing, and the harmony of life between religious people increases.

The implementation of Electronic Traffic Law Enforcement (ETLE) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) is an effort to digitize traffic law enforcement to reduce violations and accidents. However, despite the program's implementation in 2021, the number of accidents and traffic violations continues to increase year after year. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of ETLE, identify barriers to its implementation, and provide strategic recommendations to improve traffic safety in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY). This research method uses a qualitative descriptive approach to describe the implementation of ETLE in the Special Region of Yogyakarta in depth by utilizing primary data from interviews, observations, and documentation as well as secondary data in the form of supporting documents and statistics. Data analysis was conducted using an Interactive Analysis Model that includes data collection, reduction, presentation, and drawing conclusions, and supported by Duncan's Effectiveness Measurement Theory and fishbone diagram analysis. Credibility testing was carried out through extended observations, triangulation, negative case analysis, and the use of references so that the research results obtained were accurate, valid, and accountable. The research results show that the implementation of ETLE in the Special Region of Yogyakarta remains ineffective in reducing traffic accidents, despite its effective mechanisms. ETLE plays a significant role in identifying violations, but its widespread implementation is still hampered by factors such as workforce, technology, methods, and measurement. Therefore, 12 strategic recommendations are needed to optimize ETLE and improve traffic safety in the Special Region of Yogyakarta.

This publication discusses the issue of copyright literacy as a key element in the management of memory institutions in the context of digital information environment and includes issues regarding the law enforcement and the use of Open Access (OA) documents and protected authorship. The study is part of the project ‘Copyright policies of libraries and other cultural institutions’, DFNI-К01/0002-21.11.2012. The bibliographical review covers the following main subject areas: Copyright limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives; Library Copyright Policy; Information Literacy and Copyright Literacy; Plagiarism, Copyright conventions and directives; Public domain, Orphan works, Out-of-print works; OA, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Repositories, Licenses, Fair Use. The range of the sources includes monographs, collections of articles, e-publications from the period 2003-2013, which were searched in catalogs of scientific and university libraries, free repositories, data bases (DB) and e-platforms with paid access.

BackgroundOpen access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals from 2000 to 2011, while observing longitudinal internal shifts in the structure of OA publishing concerning revenue models, publisher types and relative distribution among scientific disciplines. The secondary aim was to measure the share of OA articles of all journal articles, including articles made OA by publishers with a delay and individual author-paid OA articles in subscription journals (hybrid OA), as these subsets of OA publishing have mostly been ignored in previous studies.MethodsStratified random sampling of journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (n = 787) was performed. The annual publication volumes spanning 2000 to 2011 were retrieved from major publication indexes and through manual data collection.ResultsAn estimated 340,000 articles were published by 6,713 full immediate OA journals during 2011. OA journals requiring article-processing charges have become increasingly common, publishing 166,700 articles in 2011 (49% of all OA articles). This growth is related to the growth of commercial publishers, who, despite only a marginal presence a decade ago, have grown to become key actors on the OA scene, responsible for 120,000 of the articles published in 2011. Publication volume has grown within all major scientific disciplines, however, biomedicine has seen a particularly rapid 16-fold growth between 2000 (7,400 articles) and 2011 (120,900 articles). Over the past decade, OA journal publishing has steadily increased its relative share of all scholarly journal articles by about 1% annually. Approximately 17% of the 1.66 million articles published during 2011 and indexed in the most comprehensive article-level index of scholarly articles (Scopus) are available OA through journal publishers, most articles immediately (12%) but some within 12 months of publication (5%).ConclusionsOA journal publishing is disrupting the dominant subscription-based model of scientific publishing, having rapidly grown in relative annual share of published journal articles during the last decade.