Promoting Open Digital Scholarship - A Canadian Library Perspective

Leila FernandezRajiv Nariani

Marcia SalmonYork University Libraries, Canada

What do we mean by Open Access?

Scholarly content online that is free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. (paraphrased from Peter Suber)

Primarily aimed at research articles which authors give to publishers without being paid

Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals that provide users with the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles“.

Public Access Policies to Health Research in Canada

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): One of eight research funders in Canada listed in ROARMAP mandating public access to research outputs

• CIHR provides funding opportunities for research in Biomedical, Clinical, Health System Services, Social, cultural, environmental and population health

CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs

FAQs

Promoting OA Initiatives on York Campus• CIHR public access policy: An opportunity to promote

OA to Faculty & Graduate students

- Scholarly communication initiatives website- Workshops organized by campus research officers- York University Library newsletter for faculty- Yfile: York Community Newsletter- Senate Committee on Library and Information Technology- Talking to subject librarians, exploring liaison

opportunities- Reaching out to faculty at grant application workshops- Promotion at event celebrating York authors

Scholarly Communications Initiative

Workshops for CIHR researchers

• Organized by Research Officers of Faculty of Health and Faculty of Science and Engineering

• Coverage of resources eligible for OA policy compliance using the gold route and the green route

• Promote Library support of OA initiatives

CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs – Gold Route

• Option #1: Make the full-text of your publication freely accessible from the publishers website (Gold route)

• Option #2: Grant recipients must archive the final peer-reviewed full-text manuscript within 6 months of publication in a digital archive such as the YorkSpace institutional repository OR PubMed Central Canada (Green Route)

Policy applies to all grants awarded by CIHR starting January 1, 2008

Gold Route: Open Access Journals

–Directory of Open Access Journals • DOAJ (maintained by Lund University

Libraries)

–Delayed OA journals (free after specified periods)• Journals from PubMed Central Journal List• Journals from HighWire Press

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

PubMed Central Journal List

Other option to make article OA

• Publish in Hybrid Open Access Journal. Also called OA by the Article, Optional OA, Paid Option for OA, or Author Choice, etc

• This refers to a journal where only some of the articles are Open Access. This status typically requires the payment of a publication fee / Article Processing Charge (APC) to the publisher

• APC eligible as a CIHR grant expense

York University Libraries Initiative for covering Article Processing Charges

• Author fees subsidy for publishing in certain journals covered by York University Libraries

• At present three publishers supported:– BioMed Central– Public Library of Science – Hindawi Publishing Corporation

BioMed Central – Full Fees Covered

PLoS – York Authors – 10% Fees Covered

Hindawi: Pilot for One Year

Option#2 Author Self-archiving

• Grant recipients must archive the final peer-reviewed full-text manuscript within 6 months of publication in a digital archive such as the YorkSpace institutional repository OR PubMed Central Canada (Green Route)

CARL Institutional Repositories

PubMed Central Canada

York University Libraries Support for deposit in Institutional Repository

• Authors deposit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts in YorkSpace to comply with funder requirements

• Digital Initiatives Librarian trains graduate students and faculty in uploading documents to the repository

• Workshops by subject librarians to explain library initiatives and publisher deposit requirements to health researchers

Search for Journals/Publishers compliant with CIHR Policy

SHERPA ROMEOHow to Interpret the Results of a SHERPA RoMEO Search?

• YorkSpace is the institutional repository for York University

• YorkSpace facilitates the online organization, preservation, and dissemination of York research

• YorkSpace is compliant with global standards for interoperability (OAI-PMH) so that the contents are searchable by search engines such as OAIster and Google

Metadata template includes Funding Agency requirements

Future Steps

• Analyze response to workshops • Monitor uptake of APC subsidies by York

researchers• Promote library initiatives for OA• Develop closer relationships with Research

Officers & key stakeholders on campus • Keep up-to-date with funder initiatives