Open Access and Web 2.0 in the Academic Library: A South African Experience

Part 1: UJ Institutional Repository & Open access initiatives

Pavlinka KovatchevaUniversity of Johannesburg, Library & Information Centre

pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

Participant presentation @ the Scientific Information in the Digital age: Access and Dissemination

ICTP, Trieste, Italy: 14 October 2009

Presentation Outline

Part 1:• University of Johannesburg (UJ) & Library and

Information Center (LIC)• UJ Institutional Repository (IR)• Open Access (OA)/ OA WeekPart 2:• UJ Sciences Librarian Web 2.0

University of Johannesburg (UJ) & Library & Information Center (LIC)

• University of Johannesburg (2005+)

- Merger of Technikon Witwatersrand, Rand Afrikaans and Vista Universities

- Over 45,000 students

- 9 Faculties

- 4 Campuses

- Faculty of Science (14 Departments)

- Library on each Campus

- Over 130 databases

UJ Institutional Repository (IR): UJDigispase (http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za:8080/dspace/)

The IR project started in 2007• Parties involved in the development (Library IT, Copyright officer & Rare

Book Collection staff))• DSpace software was used• From 2008 all new Theses & Dissertations (T & D) were uploaded directly

into UJDigispace• UJDigispace officially launched on 24 March 2009 • By mid-2009, all online T & D from the old system were uploaded/migrated

into UJDigispace• Department of Industrial Psychology & Human Management was used

as pilot project. • Vacant post for IR Manager/Administrator• During October 2008 & early 2009: IR was introduced to the Library Staff• Marketing not as such , because of the vacancy• Future plans: Interest from Engineering Faculty & Botany Department

UJ Institutional Repository: UJDigispace http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za:8080/dspace/

UJDigispace: Examples (1)

Physics Department: Theses & Dissertations Human Resource Management

UJDigispace: Examples (2)

UJDigispace Statistics

31 Aug - 30 Aug 2009

• Visitors Overview

- 5,544

• Site usage

- 6,172 visits

- 28,667 page view

• Traffic

- Search Engines (68.88%)

- Direct Traffic (22.59%)

- Referring sites (8.54%)

11 Sep - 11 Oct 2009

• Visitors Overview

- 8,400

• Site usage

- 9,515 visits

- 36,843 page view

• Traffic

- Search Engines (69.39%)

- Direct Traffic (20.88%)

- Referring sites (9.73%)

Promoting Open Access (OA) @ UJ Library http://ujscienceslibrarynews.wordpress.com/open-access-oa

• Oct 2008 OA week - a post on the UJ Sciences Librarian blog• March 2009 IR officially launched• August 2009 – Open Access web page for Sciences • October 2009 – Library initiative in promoting OA

- 3 UJ Intranet circular/notifications- Brochures - Exhibition on each Campus Library on OA week.- Open access T-shirts, notepads, etc. - Talk about OA & IR during open access week- A post on the Sciences blog, e-mail academics

Marketing UJ Institutional Repository: UJ Sciences Library News blog

http://ujscienceslibrarynews.wordpress.com/2009/06/

Marketing IR

• Brochures

• Through the Institutional Intranet (circular)

• Make use of Web 2.0 technologies

- Blogs - Twitter - Social bookmarking &

networking - UJ Sciences portal

- E-mail to Faculty

UJ Open Access web pagehttp://ujscienceslibrarynews.wordpress.com/open-access-oa/

UJ LIC Open Access Week: 19 – 23 October 2009

Open Access South African Journals & Sciences Journals

• SciELO South Africa (Scientific Electronic Library Online): http://www.scielo.org.za

Common methodology for the preparation, storage & evaluation of scientific literature

7 journals – incl. South African Journal of Science and Water SA (Impact 2005 - 0.445; 2008 - 0.721)

• Open Access South African Journals (Sabinet) http://www.sabinet.co.za/open_access.html