italy: oa repositories, mandates and author’s rights management. does it really work? paola...
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Italy: OA repositories, mandates and author’s rights management.
Does it really work?
Paola Gargiulo
CASPUR
Guidelines and Recommendations
CRUI- Library Committee – Open Access Working Group (2005-2009)
Guidelines to deposit doctoral dissertations in IR and guidelines on copyright issue (2007) mandatory policy established by a growing
number of institutions harvesting done by National library in
Florence and Rome
Guidelines and Recommendations CRUI- Library Committee – Open Access Working Group
(2005-2009) Guidelines to implement IR (2009)
Guidelines to create OA journals (2009)
Raccomendations on integrating IR with Research Assessment Activities (2009)
Guidelines to deposit OA teaching material (to be released)
Populating IR
Mandatory policies for doctoral dissertations In close connection with administrative activities – no
duplication of work for doctoral students
Integration of IR with Research Assessment Exercise and Research output evaluation The same OA archive : institutional archive and research
information system
Development of additional tools and services to meet researchers’ needs
Technological Infrastructure
National platform to search and discover Italian IR – PLEIADI (launched in 2004) a joint initiative of CASPUR and CILEA
CILEA : SURplus, a suite of software modules to collect and organize data on research activities and output at institutions. SURplus is interoperable with legacy systems: a business intelligence application gathers data from different modules, turns them into organized information (e.g. connecting publications to research groups and structures, connecting research projects to budgets), provides reports, metrics, statistics and predictive analysis tools. One main component of this architecture is the institutional repository for research outputs, where open access to publications is supported by the technical infrastructure.
ER licenses and IR
Elsevier and Springer licences include a clause allowing to
save and deposit in perpetuity in the IR parts of the licensed material (post-print/ revised final manuscript version of the article after the peer-reviewing process) written by the academic /research staff as long as DOI and link to publisher’s website is provided.
It helps populating IR It works much better where OA librarians are involved Problems with obtaining the final version after the peer-
reviewing process Efforts to have the same clause in other contracts
Author’s rights management
Creative Commons licences are in use
No license to publish has been put in place
Author Addendum starts to be taken up by some researchers
A position from the university is required on this issue
OA Librarians involved in making researchers more aware of copyright transfer issues
45 repositories [source RoaR]
Istitutional = 85%Discipline based= 15%
48 repositories[source OpenDOAR]3 are on test status
Conclusions
Number of repositories and content are increasing in Italy
Implement mandatory policy seems difficult to pursue, integrating IR and Research Assessment is more successful
More awareness on copyright issue and advocacy on OA is requested
More work is required on defining policies on submissions, content,, metadata ri-use and data ri-use