This presentation was one of several presentations delivered at the First International Open Access Day event held on October 14, 2008 at UBC. In support of the open access movement, the UBC Library joined with SPARC, PLoS (Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture along with 65 other institutions in celebration of this worldwide event.

This presentation was one of several presentations delivered at the First International Open Access Day event held on October 14, 2008 at UBC. In support of the open access movement, the UBC Library joined with SPARC, PLoS (Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture along with 65 other institutions in celebration of this worldwide event.

<p>In the academic world, open access institutional repositories (IRs) are beginning to play a vital role in storing and disseminating scholarly communication. Through this method, higher education institutions are able to showcase their intellectual outputs and to contribute to sharing and building knowledge. This evolutionary process of scholarly communication is an important feature of knowledge societies. Furthermore, IRs allow scholars to make known the research they are involved in, which can result in their academic reputation improving, as well as the reputations of the institutions they represent.</p> <p>The purpose of this study is to examine the processes of establishing IRs in the four tertiary education institutions in the Western Cape, which form part of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). Within this consortium is the collaborative library project, the Cape Library Consortium (CALICO), which represents the four academic library services. The researcher investigated whether the four Western Cape Higher Education Institutions have established IRs and their experiences in doing so. They are examined in the light of the guidelines for successful IRs already established in the international professional literature on IRs. Throughout the study, the partnerships that are needed for the success of IRs, with a specific emphasis on the crucial role that the librarian might play in this regard, are a central focus.</p> <p>The study is a qualitative case study, relying on interviews with key informants from the four HEIs and analysing policy and other supporting documents. The study confirms comment in the literature that IRs evolve in &ldquo / messy&rdquo / and &ldquo / spotty&rdquo / ways. The key findings might be summarised in the form of four assertions:</p> <ul> <li>&ldquo / It is all about people&rdquo / </li> <li>Philosophical differences are significant</li> <li>Context and history cannot be ignored</li> <li>The role of the university library is ambiguous.</li> </ul> <p>It is hoped that the study of fledgling IR projects might provide insights useful to the broader IR research and professional literature.</p>

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-04T11:52:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 silvanedeoliveirafrazao.pdf: 1459099 bytes, checksum: 715ddffeacd0ecf27b7bd72cca76f3b1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-04T14:56:10Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silvanedeoliveirafrazao.pdf: 1459099 bytes, checksum: 715ddffeacd0ecf27b7bd72cca76f3b1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-04T14:56:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silvanedeoliveirafrazao.pdf: 1459099 bytes, checksum: 715ddffeacd0ecf27b7bd72cca76f3b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-31 / PROQUALI (UFJF) / Analisa a contribuição do Portal de Periódicos da CAPES para a produção científica dos docentes permanentes dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Farmácia no triênio 2010-2012. A área de saúde é um campo que vem se expandindo em termos de pesquisa e a opção de estudar a subárea de Farmácia se deu por existirem poucos estudos na área, sobretudo pesquisas sobre o Portal de Periódicos da CAPES, principalmente com foco em avaliação de coleções. A metodologia empregada foi a pesquisa documental, com análise descritiva e abordagem quantitativa, utilizando técnicas bibliométricas. A população estudada foi os docentes permanentes vinculados aos Programas de Pós-Graduação (PPGs) em Farmácia reconhecidos pela CAPES. Dos 63 PPGs na área de Farmácia identificados durante o período especificado, selecionaram-se os sete Programas com conceitos seis e sete na classificação da CAPES, por considerar que a produção científica no âmbito desses programas apresentaria tendências mais expressivas de uso dos recursos bibliográficos estrangeiros disponibilizados pelo Portal. Entre os anos de 2010 e 2012, verificou-se que esses sete Programas possuíam um quadro de docentes permanentes composto por 127 pesquisadores, os quais publicaram um total de 1387 artigos em 553 periódicos estrangeiros. Quanto à coleção oferecida pelo Portal, observou-se uma redução de vinte e um títulos entre 2015 e 2017, correspondentes a 0,17%. Com relação à contribuição do Portal para a produção científica da área, constatou-se que 84,45% dos títulos nos quais os docentes da área publicam suas pesquisas são cobertos pelo Portal. Concluiu-se que o Portal apresenta uma contribuição significativa para os pesquisadores da área de Farmácia. / It analyzes the contribution of the CAPES Journals Portal for the scientific production of the permanent faculty of the Postgraduate Programs in Pharmacy in the 2010-2012 triennium. The area of health is a field that has been expanding in terms of research and the option of studying the Pharmacy subarea was because there are few researches in the area, mainly researches about the CAPES Journals Portal, principally focusing on evaluation of collections. The methodology used was the documentary research, with descriptive analysis and quantitative approach, utilizing bibliometric techniques. The population studied were the permanent faculty linked to the Postgraduate Programs (PPGs) in Pharmacy recognized by CAPES. Of the 63 PPGs in the Pharmacy area identified during the specified period, seven Programs with concepts 6 and 7 in the CAPES classification were selected, considering that the scientific production in the ambit of those programs would present more expressive tendencies of use of the foreign bibliographic resources available in the Portal. Between 2010 and 2012, it was found that those seven Programs had a permanent faculty table composed of 127 researchers, who published a total of 1387 articles in 553 foreign journals. As for the collection offered by the Portal, it was observed a reduction of twenty one titles between 2015 and 2017, corresponding to 0.17%. Regarding to the contribution of the Portal to the scientific production of the area, it was found that 84.45% of the titles in which the faculty of the area publish their researches are covered by the Portal. It was concluded that the Portal presents a significant contribution for the researchers of the Pharmacy area.

Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / In the academic world, open access institutional repositories (IRs) are beginning to play a vital role in storing and disseminating scholarly communication. Through this method, higher education institutions are able to showcase their intellectual outputs and to contribute to sharing and building knowledge. This evolutionary process of scholarly communication is an important feature of knowledge societies.Furthermore, IRs allow scholars to make known the research they are involved in,which can result in their academic reputation improving, as well as the reputations of the institutions they represent.The purpose of this study is to examine the processes of establishing IRs in the four tertiary education institutions in the Western Cape, which form part of the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). Within this consortium is the collaborative library project, the Cape Library Consortium (CALICO), which represents the four academic library services. The researcher investigated whether the four Western Cape Higher Education Institutions have established IRs and their experiences in doing so. They are examined in the light of the guidelines for successful IRs already established in the international professional literature on IRs. Throughout the study,the partnerships that are needed for the success of IRs, with a specific emphasis on the crucial role that the librarian might play in this regard, are a central focus.The study is a qualitative case study, relying on interviews with key informants from the four HEIs and analysing policy and other supporting documents. The study confirms comment in the literature that IRs evolve in “messy” and “spotty” ways. The key findings might be summarised in the form of four assertions:• “It is all about people”• Philosophical differences are significant • Context and history cannot be ignored • The role of the university library is ambiguous.It is hoped that the study of fledgling IR projects might provide insights useful to the broader IR research and professional literature.

This information studies dissertation deals with the problem that results from research outside academia risk to receive little or no attention if communicated through reports, instead of in mainstream academic genres like research journal articles. The case in focus is Swedish development-led (DL) archaeology, i.e. state regulated archaeology preceding land development. Swedish DL archaeology is organized as a semi-regulated market. The organizations competing on the market are professional service organizations selling research services to land developers. Regional government departments, county administrative boards, function as intermediaries setting up procurement-like processes. In previous research on archaeological documentation, the problem with non-use of reports has been described as depending on cultural issues of access, possible to solve if individuals make efforts to communicate and use extra-academic results. This dissertation offers an alternative definition of the problem, highlighting a different set of solutions. The aim is to further the understanding of how the distribution of research duties to professional service organizations affects the scholarly documentation in Swedish archaeology. The aim is met through identification, operationalization and analysis of resources available to report writing DL archaeology practitioners, and an analysis of how practitioners draw on these resources. The results further the understanding of how reports are shaped within the DL archaeology institution. In view of these results, efforts to solve issues of access should target the organization of research in the archaeology discipline, and specifically how scholarly documentation is governed on the archaeology market. The dissertation draws on science and technology studies, practice theory, and document theory for the design of the study of documentation resources and contexts in extra-academic research. A mixed methods approach is applied to capture regulative, institutional, and infrastructural resources, and practitioners’ use thereof. Dissertation papers I-III contain analyses of concrete instantiations of the resources: information policy, documentation ideals, and information source use. The fourth paper presents an analysis of how practitioners draw on these resources in their everyday report writing. The dissertation concerns archaeology specifically, but serves as grounds to inquire into the premises for scholarly documentation in other areas of extra-academic research and knowledge-making as well. / Archaeological Information in the Digital Society (ARKDIS)

The purpose of the study was to explore faculty attitudes towards institutional repositories in order to better understand their research habits and preferences. A better understanding of faculty needs and attitudes will enable academic libraries to improve institutional repository services and policies. A phenomenological approach was used to interview fourteen participants and conduct eight observations to determine how tenure-track faculty want to disseminate their research as well as their attitudes towards sharing research data. Interviews were transcribed and coded into emerging themes. Participants reported that they want their research to be read, used, and to have an impact. While almost all faculty see institutional repositories as something that would be useful for increasing the impact and accessibility of their research, they would consider publishers’ rights before depositing work in a repository. Researchers with quantitative data, and researchers in the humanities are more likely to share data than with qualitative or mixed data, which is more open to interpretation and inference. Senior faculty members are more likely than junior faculty members to be concerned about the context of their research data. Junior faculty members’ perception’ of requirements for tenure will inhibit their inclination to publish in open access journals, or share data. The study used a novel approach to provide an understanding of faculty attitudes and the structural functionalism of scholarly communication.

Based on informal discussions with a range of scholars across the African continent, it was felt that there was a need for a scholarly publisher located in Africa, focusing on African content, and targeting an African audience. It had also been expressed by a number of researchers, and was of wider potential interest – given the author’s institutional situation and context at the time, as well as management imperatives – that the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) could use its existing capacity and strengths in the area of African studies, specifically from a social science and development perspective, and its networks on the African continent, to form a possible institutional base for such a press, through the expansion of its publishing division. But there was no certainty as to whether this was in fact a viable business idea. Thus, this study carries out a feasibility study, to investigate and evaluate whether a scholarly press focusing on African material would be viable in the current South African, continental and international context. The study takes the form of a literature survey, questionnaire-based empirical survey, and business planning exercise. The key research question that is investigated is: Given the limitations of and challenges currently facing the South African (and wider African) scholarly publishing industry, could a scholarly publisher working according to the above vision be viably set up, and how could this be achieved? Broad support is found for the notion of a new scholarly publisher, and a business plan is developed to show how such a press could be set up, working within certain constraints and assumptions. / Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Information Science / MIS / Unrestricted

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Awards or grant programs are a common way for higher education institutions to incentivize the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other affordable course materials. This study evaluates the results of a two-year pilot OER awards program at East Tennessee State University. To assess the awards program, we used data from student savings and program costs, grades, drop-fail-withdrawal (DFW) rates, and survey results compiled within the COUP framework (Cost, Outcomes, Usage, and Perception). The initial monetary return on investment was moderately positive, while the grades and DFW rates remained steady. The faculty and students rated the open and affordable materials as well as the OER awards program favorably but expressed some issues with using and implementing open and affordable resources. Based on these results, we determined that the awards program was worth the costs and efforts but needed improvements specifically to address the faculty’s feedback around the lack of time to implement OER and the absence of OER for their courses.