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Open Access on Campus

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The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

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Open Access Support at the University of Stellenbosch

"Ek kan my nie indink wat ek sonder Open Access sou doen nie. Dit is gebruikersvriendelik, betroubaar en bevat bewysgebaseerde inligting vir alle omgewings in navorsing. As mens jouself net indink die hoeveelheid inligting wat daagliks gepubliseer word en nie weet wat betroubaar is en wat nie is ‘n databasis soos BMJ ideaal vir goeie inligting." - Dr Theo Nell, Dept. Fisiologiese Wetenskappe, Fakulteit Natuurwetenskappe, Stellenbosch University

Prof Temple Hauptfleisch

"Fundamentele inligting, kreatiewe werk en die resultate van navorsing behoort nie bloot eenvoudig ‘n kommoditeit te wees nie, dit moet die bron vir verdere kreatiwiteit, navorsing en ontwikkelling te wees. (Wat nie beteken ons moet nie navorsers en kunstenaars vergoed nie, hulle moet immers ook eet en drink natuurlik..) Maar ons kan nie in vandag se digitale wêreld toelaat dat materiële onvermoë enige persoon weerhou van toegang tot kennis en inligting nie. En daarbei het oop toegang twee wonderlike voordele vir ernstige navorsers/kunstenaars-as-navorsers. (a) Dit bevorder belangrike kruisbestuiwing onder diegene met ‘n openheid tot laterale denke, veral wanneer alle inligting oor ‘n saak, uit alle gebiede, openlik en vrylik beskikbaar is vir gebruik in ‘n projek en (b) dit maak dit wat jy geskep, bevind of ontwikkel het soveel makliker en wyer deel van die grotere internasionale debat. Daar is ‘n soort bevrydende bemagtiging hierin." - Prof Temple Hauptfleisch, Departement Drama, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University

"New knowledge is built on existing knowledge. If existing knowledge is not accessible – or is increasingly privatised – then the whole enterprise of creating new knowledge for the benefit of society in general and the planet, is hobbled." - Ralph Pina, Director: E-Business, Information Technology, Stellenbosch University

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“That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.” — Benjamin Franklin

"We are delighted that Stellenbosch University will celebrate the signing of the Berlin Declaration with a public event. We greatly appreciate your engagement for our common cause and wish you all the best for the great event and look forward to our cooperation within the framework of the Berlin process." - Christoph Bruch, Head of Open Access, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Berlin

Open Access Information

The Berlin Declaration

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Declaration_on_Open_Access_to_Knowledge_in_the_Sciences_and_Humanities 

Preface

The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access.

We, the undersigned, feel obliged to address the challenges of the Internet as an emerging functional medium for distributing knowledge. Obviously, these developments will be able to significantly modify the nature of scientific publishing as well as the existing system of quality assurance.

In accordance with the spirit of the Declaration of the Budapest Open Acess Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, we have drafted the Berlin Declaration to promote the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base and human reflection and to specify measures which research policy makers, research institutions, funding agencies, libraries, archives and museums need to consider.

Goals

Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society. New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community.

In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent. Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible.

Definition of an Open Access Contribution

Establishing open access as a worthwhile procedure ideally requires the active commitment of each and every individual producer of scientific knowledge and holder of cultural heritage. Open access contributions include original scientific research results, raw data and metadata, source materials, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material.

Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:

   1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

   2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.

Supporting the Transition to the Electronic Open Access Paradigm

Our organizations are interested in the further promotion of the new open access paradigm to gain the most benefit for science and society. Therefore, we intend to make progress by

    * encouraging our researchers/grant recipients to publish their work according to the principles of the open access paradigm.
    * encouraging the holders of cultural heritage to support open access by providing their resources on the Internet.
    * developing means and ways to evaluate open access contributions and online-journals in order to maintain the standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice.
    * advocating that open access publication be recognized in promotion and tenure evaluation.
    * advocating the intrinsic merit of contributions to an open access infrastructure by software tool development, content provision, metadata creation, or the publication of individual articles.

We realize that the process of moving to open access changes the dissemination of knowledge with respect to legal and financial aspects. Our organizations aim to find solutions that support further development of the existing legal and financial frameworks in order to facilitate optimal use and access.

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Overview in the scholarly life cycle

With reference to: http://www.cfses.com/EI-ASPM/SCLCM-V7

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What Open Access and Institutional Repositories are about

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29) "In publishing, open access (OA) is free online access to articles that have traditionally been published in scholarly journals. Most open access material in this context is distributed via the World Wide Web. There are several variations in open access publishing:

  • "Gold OA": A fully open access journal hosted by the publisher with no barriers to online access.
  • Hybrid open access journals provide open access only for some articles, those for which payment is made on behalf of the author.
  • Delayed open access journals open access to particular articles only after a period of embargo.
  • "Green OA" is open access self-archiving (deposit by its authors) of material which may have been published as non-open access.

Institutional Repositories

An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating -- in digital form -- the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.

For a university, this would include materials such as research journal articles, before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects.

The four main objectives for having an institutional repository are:

  1. to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research;
  2. to collect content in a single location;
  3. to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving it;
  4. to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ("grey") literature (e.g., theses or technical reports).

The origin of the notion of an "institutional repository" [IR] are twofold:

  1. IRs are partly linked to the notion of digital interoperability, which is in turn linked to the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and its Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The OAI in turn had its roots in the notion of a "Universal Preprint Service,"[1] since superseded by the open access movement.
  2. IRs are partly linked to the notion of a digital library -- i.e., collecting, housing, classifying, cataloguing, curating, preserving, and providing access to digital content, analogous with the library's conventional function of collecting, housing classifying, curating, preserving and providing access to analog content.

There is a mashup indicating the worldwide locations of open access digital repositories. This project is called Repository 66 and is based on data provided by ROAR and the OpenDOAR service developed by the SHERPA. Data from this service indicates that as of 2007[update], the most popular IR software platforms are Eprints, DSpace, and Bepress.

Open Access in South Africa

DRIVER wiki on Open Access in South Africa: http://www.driver-support.eu/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.SouthAfrica

openDOAR list of South African Institutional Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?cID=198&title=South%20Africa

Open Access Week: http://www.openaccessweek.org/group/openaccesssouthafrica?xg_source=msg_wel_group

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