OPEN ACCESS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ~ RECENT

STATUS & WAY FORWARD FOR UET

Dr. Ammad Hassan Khan

OPEN ACCESS“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online,

free of charge, and free of most copyright and

licensing restrictions. What make it possible is

the internet and the consent of the author or

copyright-holder”.

- Peter Suber-

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◦@CogentOAhttp://www.cogentoa.com/

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Open Access Resources

◦ Open Access Publishing Directories

◦ Open Access Search Engines

◦ Open Access Journals

◦ Open Access Journal Publishers

◦ Open Access E – Books

◦ Open Access Standard Sources

◦ Open Access Patent Sources

◦ Open Inline Learning Tools

◦ Virtual Libraries

◦ Subject Gateways

◦ Open Access Video Lectures

◦ Research Networks

What can be Made Available Under Open Access ???

◦ Peer-reviewed research articles

◦ Un refereed preprints destined to be peer-reviewed research articles

◦ Theses and Dissertations

◦ Research data

◦ Government data source code conference presentations (texts, slides, audio,

video) scholarly monographs textbooks novels, stories, plays, and poetry

newspapers

◦ Archival records and manuscripts images (artworks, photographs, diagrams,

maps) teaching and learning materials (“open education resources” and “open

courseware”)

◦ Digitized print works (some in the public domain, some still under copyright)

What Faculty Can Do to Promote OPEN ACCESS ??◦Submit your research articles to OA journals, when there are appropriate

OA journals in your field.

◦Deposit your preprints in an open-access.

◦Deposit your post- prints in an open-access repository.

◦Deposit your data files in an OA archive along with the articles built on

them.

◦Educate the next generation of scientists and scholars about OA.

◦Write opinion pieces (articles, journal editorials, newspapers op-eds, letters

to the editor, discussion forum postings) advancing the cause of OA.

◦When asked to referee a paper or serve on the editorial board for an OA

journal, accept it.

Organizations Involve in Promoting OA◦ California Open Educational Resources Council; http://coolfored.org/about.htm

◦ Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL); http://www.carl-abrc.ca/advancing-

research/scholarly-communication/open-access/

◦ Center for Research Communication; http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/

◦ Confederation of Open Access Repositories; https://www.coar-repositories.org/

◦ Creativl e Commons; http://creativecommons.org

◦ Duraspace; http://duraspace.org/

◦ IFLA Open Access Taskforce; https://www.ifla.org/node/6566

◦ Internet Archive; http://www.archive.org

◦ Libraria; http://libraria.cc/ • Open Access Working Group http://access.okfn.org/

◦ Open Archives Initiative (OAI); http://www.openarchives.org

◦ Open Data for Development (OD4D); http://od4d.net/

◦ Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition; http://www.arl.org/sparc/

Current Status of OA at the UET ◦Role of Faculties

◦Role of Central Library

◦Role of the ORIC

◦Role of the KICS

◦Role of the ContinuousProfessionalDevelopmentDepartment

◦Role of QualityEnhancement Cell UET

Way Forward for the UET ◦ OA Department

◦ Planning of the Target OA Resources

to be Initiated by the Faculties

◦ Development of the Database of the

Experts for the OA from different

Faculties.

◦ Conducting Seminars & carrying out

necessary Trainings (National an

International) of UET OA Experts

◦ Synchronization between Main

Campus, Sub Campus and Affiliated

Institutions.

◦ Launching of OA from the UET

Launching OA from the UET, Initial Targets ◦ To utilize the benefits of different waivers offered to developing countries under the

OA.

◦ Virtual Library (BSc, MSc & PhD Thesis of the UET Students – Huge Indigenous

Database Available to Launch).

◦ To bring Books Published by the UET Faculty on E- Books OA Format.

◦ To develop subject (undergraduate and post graduate) Gateways for different Faculties.

◦ To establish research network under different Faculties Specializations Modules.

THANKS