Implementation Of Open Access Research Articles

Managing Change in Vilnius University Library: New Partnerships and Innovative Services

The objective of this article is to ascertain most significant fields of the academic library activities, which have an impact on strengthening the library’s role as a partner in academic community, as well as to assess VUL capacities to see what kind of current or future activities may contribute to the building-up of such role in VU community. Analysis of recent LI S literature reveals the key trends in development of academic libraries, their innovative change and challenges – open access, managing of research data; research support; research assessment, scientific research; allows to analyse one particular library in order to see if and at what scale these trends can be traced in VUL . It was established that VUL contributes to practical implementation of open access, collaborates with VU and academic community in the projects of research data management, carries out bibliometric research, helps to form research support services, promotes the Library’s scholarly research and contributes to formation of the institution’s research potential. Description of new activities is important for the management of change. Adjustment of organizational structure, introduction of new positions and their description facilitate achievement of this purpose. It allows informing academic and library community about new activities and functions of the library; the Library assumes obligation to develop these activities, and employees are encouraged to meet high qualification requirements, whereas the Library looks for the ways to improve competencies of the personnel.

Understanding Open Access for Africa

This paper considers the origin, definition, rationale and modus operandi of open access. It discusses issues that are fundamental to open access using the Budapest Open Access Initiative as a reference point. It also discusses the relevance of open access in Africa focusing on the green road to open access and concludes with recommendations for the successful implementation of open access via the green road.

O acesso aberto (na UMinho e no mundo): onde estamos e por onde vamos?

Open access, which has been defined, as we know it today, twelve years ago through the Budapest Declaration, had a significant development in the last decade. University of Minho was one of the pioneering institutions in the implementation of open access. Its institutional repository (RepositoriUM), created in 2003, has grown and established itself within and outside the institution as a success story. The establishment of an institutional policy of self-archiving of UMinho scientific production has contributed decisively to this success. Taking into consideration the experience of the University of Minho in the last ten years, as well as the analysis of the overall development of open access in the same period, this article aims to review and discuss the current situation of open access worldwide. We affirm that open access already appears to be inevitable, but there is still much uncertainty about the shape and pace of the transition to it. This transition can be driven by the scientific community and its institutions, or by the scientific publishing industry. We conclude by presenting some of the main directions of the strategy for open access that UMinho will continue in the coming years.

Implementing Open Access in the United Kingdom

Since July 2012, the UK has been undergoing an organized transition to open access. As of 01 April 2013, revised open access policies are coming into effect. Open access implementation requires new infrastructures for funding publishing. Universities

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY AND PUBLICATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH RESULTS: A CASE OF A SWEDISH REGIONAL UNIVERSITY

The article presents a study that is based on the statistical analysis of the data from the university institutional repository, on the analysis of the university documents regulating the publishing of research results, interviews with the policy makers in the university and with active researchers, as well as the analysis of the survey data collected from the research staff. The problem that the study holds in focus was introduction and perception of open access pu­blishing among researchers. This problem was related to the general publishing policy in Swedish universities and the policies of research funding on the national and institutional levels. The actual study was carried out as a case study of a medium regional university in Sweden. The uni­versity holds research rights in several research areas and supports open access through institutional publishing policy. The study included several methods that helped providing answers to the following questions: What are the provisions of the University management that lead to the formulation of the policy requirements for publishing research results?What is the impact of publishing policies on the actual publication of research results?How do the researchers perceive the publishing policy of the University, the require­ments and open access?What do the researchers know about the functions of the institutional repository at the University and the repository data quality problems?The results of the study show that the publishing policy of the university seeks to in­crease the visibility of the university in scholarly communication, create open access to the research results of the university and improve the quality of published documents. It also emphasizes the responsibility of researchers for the quality of publications and the data that represents them. The knowledge of the university researchers about the publication processes and the potential of open access, about the consequences of the transfer of copyright to publishers or other processes related to modern scholarly communication is rather limited. Though their attitu­des towards open access are positive, the responsibility of a researcher for implementation of open access and the quality of the data or documents accessible through it is not recognized. Successful implementation of the publishing policies in the university require continued information literacy education for researchers and increased consultations about publishing changes. This could become a natural extension of library functions related to both its work with institutional repository and information literacy.

Network Pricing in India: Policies and Practices

India is moving from a vertically and horizontally integrated power industry towards an open market, multi-buyer multi-seller structure associated with an independent regulatory framework. This article outlines a snapshot of the Indian power industry, along with discussing the recently implemented legislative and policy reforms. These reforms impact the network pricing models, consequently impacting the economic signals being provided for load and generation customers. Transmission network pricing is experiencing challenges with the implementation of open access, availability-based tariffs, and power trading. Visualizing the impact of recent policies and regulations on pricing, and consequently on customer tariff, this article tries to analyze the network pricing practices in India and the possible role that alternative methodologies can play.

Implementing Open Access: Policy Case Studies

Implementing open access is a tough job. Legitimate authority, sufficient resources and the right timing are crucial. Pioneers, role models and flagship institutions all have faced considerable challenges in meeting their own aims and achieving a recognized success. Professionals charged with implementing policy typically need several years to accomplish significant progress. Many institutions adopting open access policies probably need to do more, much more, if the commitment to open access is to be meaningful. A first generation of open access policy development and implementation is coming to a close. It is thus possible to begin evaluation. Evaluating implementation establishes evidence, enables reflection, and may foster the emergence of a second generation of open access policies. This study is based on a small number of cases, examining the implementation of open access around the world. Some of the pioneer institutions with open access mandates have been included, as well as some newer cases. The emergence of the new stakeholders in publishing is examined, such as digital repositories, research funders and research organisations. Because this is a groundbreaking study, no claim is made that the results are representative. The emphasis is on variety and on defining a methodological standard. Each case is reconstructed individually on the basis of public documents and background information, and supported by interviews with professionals responsible for open access implementation. Implementation is typically based on targeting researchers as authors. Indeed, the author is pivotal to any open access solution. This is the ‘tertium comparationis’ that facilitates an examination of the similarities and differences across instances in an effort to build a broader policy research agenda. In a final section, open access is placed in the wider context of the evolution of digital scholarship. This clarifies how published research results are destined to become a key component of digital research infrastructures that provide inputs and outputs for research, teaching and learning in real time. The ten cases examined in detail are: - Refining green open access policy: Queensland University of Technology (September 2003) - Refining policy to foster deposit: University of Zurich (July 2005) - National platform, open collection, decentralized policy: the HAL platform (June-October 2006) - Maximising a funder’s impact: The Wellcome Trust (October 2006) - Implementing open access as a digital infrastructure: UK PMC (January 2007) - Learning from global research infrastructure: SCOAP3 (April 2007) - Linking public access to open data: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (January 2008) - Open access to all publications, internationally: Austrian Science Fund (FWF, March 2008) - One policy, sixty publication strategies: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (July 2008) - Open Access complements the Research Information System: The University of Pretoria (May 2009)

An Open Access Approach to Scientific Information Management at the Agricultural Research Corporation

Abstract: This article presents the experience of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) – a large state-owned company that plays an important global role in research, development, and innovation for tropical agriculture – in the planning and implementation of Open Access to scientific information in the context of a developing country. The aim of this initiative is to provide the necessary mechanisms to capture, store, organize, preserve, retrieve, and widely disseminate the scientific information produced by Embrapa and by agricultural research communities. This report concludes with a discussion of the obstacles encountered and the organizational features, cultural considerations, and political matters that facilitate open access implementation at Embrapa.

Promoting open access in Germany as illustrated by a recent project at the Library of the University of Konstanz

PurposeWith the illustration of a best practice example for an implementation of open access in a scientific institution, the paper will be useful in fostering future open access projects.Design/methodology/approachThe paper starts with a brief overview of the existing situation of open access in Germany. The following report describes the results of a best practice example, added by the analysis of a survey on the position about open access by the scientists at the University of Konstanz.FindingsThe dissemination of the advantages of open access publishing is fundamental for the success of implementing open access in a scientific institution. For the University of Konstanz, it is shown that elementary factors of success are an intensive cooperation with the head of the university and a vigorous approach to inform scholars about open access. Also, some more conditions are essential to present a persuasive service: The Library of the University of Konstanz offers an institutional repository as an open access publication platform and hosts open journal systems for open access journals. High‐level support and consultation for open access publishing at all administrative levels is provided. The integration of the local activities into national and international initiatives and projects is pursued for example by the joint operation of the information platform open‐access.net.Originality/valueThe paper offers insights in one of the most innovative open access projects in Germany. The University of Konstanz belongs to the pioneers of the open access movement in Germany and is currently running a successful open access project.

Open Access Implementation and Diabetes Outcomes

To the Editor:—We appreciated the recent article by Subramanian and colleagues exploring the impact of open access (OA) scheduling on diabetes care,1 but were left with two critical unanswered questions.

Open-Source-Software zur Realisierung von Institutionellen Repositorien - Überblick

Institutional repositories are a fundamental instrument for the implementation of open access using either the green road or the golden road.This article provides an overview of the software systems currently being used in Germany to operate institutional repositories and sheds light on these systems in terms of the currently valid (2007) certification for document and publication services established and administered by the non-profit association DINI (German Initiative for Network Information). Software given particular attention includes Opus, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe, and Fedora.

Open Access and Institutional Repositories — A Developing Country Perspective: a case study of India

Open access facilitates the availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means and effort to solve the problem of inaccessibility, primarily due to financial constraints, particularly in the developing countries. In India there has been a gradual realization of the usefulness of open access among various institutions. Various open access initiatives have been undertaken and are operational. Many are in the developmental stage. Some initiatives have also been taken in the area of metadata harvesting services particularly public funded ones. The future of open access in India is dependent upon a proper policy and developing a proper framework. In the implementation of open access, LIS professionals should play a proactive role in the growth of collections in institutional repositories. The paper provides an overview about the present state of open access initiatives by various institutions of the country.

The tissue microarray data exchange specification: implementation by the Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource

BackgroundTissue Microarrays (TMAs) have emerged as a powerful tool for examining the distribution of marker molecules in hundreds of different tissues displayed on a single slide. TMAs have been used successfully to validate candidate molecules discovered in gene array experiments. Like gene expression studies, TMA experiments are data intensive, requiring substantial information to interpret, replicate or validate. Recently, an open access Tissue Microarray Data Exchange Specification has been released that allows TMA data to be organized in a self-describing XML document annotated with well-defined common data elements. While this specification provides sufficient information for the reproduction of the experiment by outside research groups, its initial description did not contain instructions or examples of actual implementations, and no implementation studies have been published. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the TMA Data Exchange Specification is implemented in a prostate cancer TMA.ResultsThe Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) is funded by the National Cancer Institute to provide researchers with samples of prostate cancer annotated with demographic and clinical data. The CPCTR now offers prostate cancer TMAs and has implemented a TMA database conforming to the new open access Tissue Microarray Data Exchange Specification. The bulk of the TMA database consists of clinical and demographic data elements for 299 patient samples. These data elements were extracted from an Excel database using a transformative Perl script. The Perl script and the TMA database are open access documents distributed with this manuscript.ConclusionsTMA databases conforming to the Tissue Microarray Data Exchange Specification can be merged with other TMA files, expanded through the addition of data elements, or linked to data contained in external biological databases. This article describes an open access implementation of the TMA Data Exchange Specification and provides detailed guidance to researchers who wish to use the Specification.