Institutional Repositories

Dr. Sarika Sawant

SHPT School of Library Science

SNDT Women’s University

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Presentation Outline

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Part I

Concept of Open Access: Why, What, & How?

Part II

Institutional repositories: Why, What, & How?

Definition of Open Access

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Driving Force Behind Open Access

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The objective of open-access is:

not to quarrel with or to replace journals (at all) _____________________________________________

1. not to resolve the budgetary problems of libraries (and yet…)

2. not to provide access to the Developing World (and yet…)

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The objective of open-access is:

to maximize research impact

by maximizing research access

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OA serves to

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Means of OA

Green Road to Open Access: authors perform self-archiving upon publishing a

peer-reviewed journal article

Gold Road to Open Access: institutions pay for their authors' gold open access

publication fees (APC)

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What Libraries Can Do

Self-archiving:

Maintain institutional repository.

Help faculty archive their research papers, new & old, digitizing if necessary.

Make sure scholars at your institution know how to find open access journals and archives in their fields

As open access journals proliferate, cancel over-priced journals

Familiarize yourself with the issues

IR Defines…

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An institutional repository is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution, with few if any barriers to access.

In other words, the content of an IR is:

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IR offers

•Increasing visibility and prestige

•Centralisation and storage of all types of institutional output

•Support for learning and teaching

•Standardisation of institutional records

•Leverage of existing systems

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To the Institution

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IR offers

• Increased visibility and citation• Participation in research (particularlyfrom developing countries)• Speed up knowledge discovery• Enable new modes of inquires• Increase computational potential• Blurring disciplinary boundaries• New metrics and “language” forimpact and authority

To Researchers

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IR offers

• Provide access to the world’s research

• Ensures long-term preservation of institutes’ academic output

To the Society

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of an IR

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Pre-prints / post prints Research reports, Conference papers / postersBook reviewsTeaching materialsStudent’s assignments / projectsDoctoral theses and dissertationsAudio / video materials such as speech Photographs / imagesConvocation address, Annual reports / manuscripts / mapsNewspaper clippings / articlesProfiles of faculty members / administrative staff / scientists etc.

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Authorised Contributors

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Students,

Research scholars,

Teachers,

Scientists,

Administrative staff

Academic support staff

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No review process

Review of subject content with selected group of peers

Only for certain documents (for eg no need of quality control mechanism for any article published in peer reviewed journal submitted to IR with due permission from publisher)

Peer-review and Quality Control

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Issues…

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Promotion

Intellectual Property Issues

Assessment

IR Software's

Interoperability Standards

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Challenges / Inhibiting factors

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Cost

Difficulties with generating content

Barriers to faculty participation are numerous

Sustaining support and commitment

Rights management

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How does IR work

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• Research material is hosted and managed on an IR server, using appropriate IR software

•Accessible on the organizational LAN (intranet) + Internet/private network

• Scientists use a web browser to submit (deposit) research material and also search the repository

• Through OAI inter-operability protocol, a central search service ‘Harvests” metadata from individual IR’s, builds a cross-index and provides single point cross-repository search service

• Security concerns could be handled at network, IR and publication level

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Institutional Repositories : India – 50 plus

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Directories of Open Access Repositories

OpenDoar (http://www.opendoar.org/)  ROAR (http://archives.eprints.org/)

The University of Illinois OAI-PMH Data Provider Registry (http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/Info.asp)

Openarchives.eu (http://www.openarchives.eu/home/home_do.aspx)

OpCit: The Open Citation Project   (http://opcit.eprints.org/opcitabout.shtml)

RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving (http://romeo.eprints.org /publishers.html)

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