Open Access: OSI and eIFL’s Work on the International Level, Overview of presentation Activities in on the National

Level „ Background on OSI & BOAI „ Introduction to „ eIFL Open Access Program Iryna Kuchma, [email protected] Melissa Hagemann, [email protected] „ Open Access in Ukraine Rima Kupryte, [email protected]

International Conference “Open as … Library”, Zagreb, Croatia, March 3-4, 2006

Open Society Institute OSI’s Information Program

„ eIFL „ Private, grant- making foundation funded „ ICT Toolsets by George Soros which aims to shape „ Intellectual Property and Knowledge public policy to promote democratic Governance governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform „ Internet & Information Policy „ Open Access Project „ Network of national foundations in 67 countries. „ Open Source „ Technology Support for Civil Society

Driving force behind open access – Background of the BOAI Dissatisfaction at all levels December 2001, Budapest: OSI held a meeting „ Authors: their work is not seen by all of leaders exploring alternative publishing their peers – do not receive the models. Concluded that “open access” was recognition they deserve the goal and agreed on two main strategies for achieving it: „ Readers: cannot view all research 1. open access journals literature they need – less effective 2. self-archiving/institutional repositories „ Libraries: cannot satisfy information 3,992 / 341. March 1, 2006. Numbers of needs of their users individual / institutional signatories to the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

1 Definition of open access OSI’s Open Access Project

„ In using the term 'open access‘, we „ Builds upon principles outlined in BOAI mean the free availability of peer- and aims to assist the international reviewed literature on the public effort to make research articles in all internet, permitting any user to read, academic fields freely available online. download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles.

OSI’s Open Access Project eIFL.net

„ Projects supported: – tools (DOAJ, DOAR) „ An independent foundation that strives – guides (Guide to Open Access Publishing to lead, negotiate, support and advocate and Scholarly Societies, IR Software) for the wide availability of electronic – advocacy (Open Access News, SPARC) resources by library users in transition – research (Economics of OA) and developing countries. – conferences (OAI4) „ Operates through a network of national – eIFL OA Program library consortia in 55 countries.

Institutional Repositories eIFL.net programs ‰ eIFL.net has from the beginning aimed „ Licensing electronic commercial content to be a conduit for electronic content „ Building sustainable library consortia produced in eIFL countries ‰ „ Creating Institutional Repositories Assistance with the selection of IT tools and technical help and support to build „ Open Access awareness raising IR „ Lobbying and awareness raising in ‰ Pilots have started in some eIFL.net Intellectual Property issues countries „ Giving Information Technology support ‰ This programme area is new and just starting to produce results (IRs in pilot countries)

2 eIFL Open Access Program Open access „ Supported by OSI ‰ Partnership with OAI to facilitate and support publication of authors from eIFL countries in „ Call for Interest among eIFL members: alternative and OA journals – Serbia, KoBSON, November 2003 & November 2005 ‰ Promotion of Open Access journals (DOAJ) – South Africa, SASLI, July 2004 & May ‰ Awareness raising workshops (SA, Ukraine, Lithuania, China, others planned) about 2005 principles and business models – Ukraine, IRF, February 2005 ‰ Advocacy about the importance of OA with – Lithuania, LMBA, February 2005 research funding bodies and policy makers – China, LCAS, June 2005 – Slovenia, COSEC, 2006 – Russia, RSL, 2006

Serbia South Africa

„ Serbian Library Consortium for „ SASLI (South Africa Site Licensing Initiative) Coordinated Acquisition „ Open Access to Scholarly Communications Workshop, July 2004 „ Open Access Scholarly Communication „ 3 day IR Workshop, May 2005 Workshop, National Library of Serbia, November 2003 „ Creation of OA Working Group (SASLI, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of „ Open Access Seminar w/focus on Cape Town, Stellenbosch University) Citation Impact, November 2005

Lithuania „ Lithuanian Research Library Consortia China „ Open Access Scholarly Communication „ Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences Workshop. Target group: policy makers, „ International Conference on Strategies and scientific community, librarians, information Policies for Open Access to Scientific specialists, programmers, February 2005 Information, Beijing, June 2005 „ “Open Access - Revolution in the Scholarly Publishing?” Target group: vice rectors of the – Recommendations: require that all government universities, policy makers for scholarly funded research be published in OA; reform current system of review of S&T achievements so communication, scientific community, as to encourage academics to publish in OA; librarians, June 2005 support leading journals to convert to OA „ Development of Lithuanian Academic „ Conducting studies of OA policies in other Libraries Network (national IR network); Received EU Structural Funds, considering countries Fedora, team led by Kaunas University

3 Ukraine Update on Open Access „ International Renaissance Foundation „ 2,072. March 1, 2006. The number of peer- (national Soros foundation) reviewed OA journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). „ Open Access Conference, February 2005 „ Blackwell - Online Open (February 2005) – Recommendations endorsed by Ukrainian „ Oxford - Oxford Open (May 2005) Vice Prime Minister „ Springer - Open Choice (strengthened in „ Parliamentary Inquiry, September 21, October 2005) Harmonization of Governmental „ December 2005: a deal with the Wellcome Educational Policies re OA Trust Wellcome Trust to provide immediate „ National Network of Open Access OA to articles based on WT-funded research. Repositories (2006), 8 institutions „ The American Institute of Physics - Author Select (October 2005)

Update on Open Access Update on Open Access

„ 324. February 5, 2006. Number of OA, OAI- compliant repositories listed by OpenDOAR „ 355,068. February 5, 2006. Number of (Directory of Open Access Repositories). articles on deposit at arXiv. „ 637. March 1, 2006. Number of OA, OAI- „ 5,616,906. February 5, 2006. Number of compliant repositories listed by ROAR articles on deposit at PubMed Central. (Registry of Open Access Repositories). „ 504. February 5, 2006. Number of „ 611 / 6,526,648. March 1, 2006. Numbers of institutional members of BioMed Central. OA, OAI-compliant repositories / records harvested (indexed and searched) by OAIster.

Update on Open Access Update on Open Access „ 145. February 5, 2006. Number of institutional signatories to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge. „ 145. February 5, 2006. Number of institutional members of the Public Library of „ Leaders in OA repositoires - Germany, Science. Netherlands, Australia, Norway - almost in every university „ 13.9. June 23, 2005. Impact factor for PLoS Biology, the highest for the category of „ Average # of publications - a couple of general biology. hundreds, but in the Nerthelands about 3,000 - 25 % of all the researches „ Articles, theses and books „ Yevgeniy Negulyaev, http://lib.usu.ru

4 Ukraine: How we started Update on Open Access „ Awareness raising: „ March 2004: Article about OA in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (one of the most influential weeklies) „ Open Access textbooks: BookPower, California Open Source Textbook Project, „ April 2004: Seminar about OA journals for the CommonText, Free High School Science editors of scientific and scholarly journals Texts, Libertas Academica, Medical (society publishers) with the support from Approaches, MedRounds Publications, NAS next\text, Open Textbook Project, Potto „ April -till now: workshops and presentations Project, Wikibooks. about OA Journals and OA Institutional „ Portal developed by Textbook Revolution. Repositories for university librarians, society publishers and academic community in general

Ukraine: National event in 2005: Ukraine: National event in 2005: „ Recommendations that the Ukrainian authorities ensure: „ February 17-19, 2005, hosted by National – the right of individuals and the public to access University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, organized information and knowledge and to guarantee that by International Renaissance Foundation, IP regimes are not the obstacles to the public’s OSI, NAS, International Association of access to knowledge Academies of Sciences, supported by East- – to encourage research and higher educational East Program: Partnership Beyond Boarders institutions to practice OA – to put an OA condition to state funded researches of OSI and the British Council Ukraine (except reasonable exceptions) and to provide „ Over 140 researchers, administrators, state fund and technical assistance to research librarians, information managers from higher and higher educational institutions to set up and maintain OAR (with condition to adopt a policy to educational institutions and scientific encourage or require OA research output) research laboratories from 17 countries – to support ICT development in libraries, archives, museums and other organizations providing access to information and to provide state fund and technical assistance to OA to cultural heritage.

Ukraine: Access to Knowledge Ukraine: National event in 2005: http://www.a2k.org.ua/

– Recommendations endorsed by Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister

5 Ukraine: http://www.a2k.org.ua/: OA Ukraine: OA journals journals and repositories „ OA Journals: Ukrainian OA journals in DOAJ: – Journal title – Alternative journal title (well known 2nd title) – the URL of the journal – Full text access from year – Volume: first full text accessible volume – Issue: first full text accessible issue – ISSN: – EISSN: ONLY fill in this if the journal has an e-ISSN – Publisher: – Provider: – Language: – Keywords: describing the content of the journal – Subject: Library of Congress Classification Code (can be excluded) – E-mail contact: – Contact person

Ukraine: OA journals Ukraine: OA repositories „ INFORMATIO 2005 - 3 -7 October, 2005: „ DOAJ check journals: university and oblast universal scientific – OA libraries launched the network of OA – ISSN – Peer-review/editorial control repositories in Ukraine – Quality: „ National Network of Open Access – Academic level/target group Repositories (2006) implemented by – Active: Informatio Consortia and Scientific Library of – Publication frequency: twice a year minimum National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy – Full text: mandatory with 7 other Universities – Copyright: accept the DOAJ definition of OA. „ Testing software /dspace „ Contact person: Lotte Jorgensen, Lund University Libraries, [email protected] „ Support from the National Scientific Library and Ukrainian Institute for Scientific-Technical and Economical Information

Ukraine: OA policies development Ukraine: OA policies development

„ Cooperation is crucial: local partners: „ NGO Privacy Ukraine „ Parliamentary hearing on Developing information society in Ukraine (from „ Internet Access and Training program (IATP) of International Researches and Exchanges 01.12.2005): Parliamentary Inquiry, Board (IREX) September 21, Harmonization of Governmental Educational Policies re OA „ Fulbright Exchange program „ Lobbying activities: „ National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine „ web-site with public professional „ Parliamentary Committee for Education and recommendations http://www.sluhannya.in.ua Science „ Informational leaflet to all members of the „ Internews Ukraine Parliament „ Ukrainian Internet Society

6 Ukraine: OA policies development Ukraine: OA policies development

„ And again cooperation Recommendations of the first Parliamentary hearings on the „ Parliamentary Inquiry: development of the information society of „ open access is one of the priorities in Ukraine (September 21, 2005) were based on developing information society the recommendations of the workshop „ the Cabinet of Ministers should create organized by the Parliamentary Committee favorable conditions for developing open on Education and Science, the Cabinet of access repositories in archives, libraries, Ministers of Ukraine, the National Academy of museums and other cultural institutions. Sciences, Internet Association of Ukraine, „ The Ministry of Education and Science of International NGO “Internews Ukraine”, Ukraine should encourage development of International Renaissance Foundation, open access resources in science, Microsoft Ukraine, and representative office technology and education with open access of Intel in Ukraine. condition to state funded researches.

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„ Open Access is also one of the priorities in National strategy on developing information society in Ukraine introduced to Ukrainian Parliament by Parliamentary Committee on Science and Education.

Ukraine: other plans for 2006: Useful links and additional „ informational workshops for the journalists about OA information „ Budapest Open Access Initiative: „ competition for the journalist writing about OA http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ „ competitions of students researches about „ eIFL Open Access Program: OA http://www.eifl.net/services/services_open.html „ investigation of scholars/journal editors „ Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): attitude to open access http://www.doaj.org/ „ OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access „ ensuring the right of individuals and the public Repositories): http://www.opendoar.org/ to access information and knowledge - developing Access to Knowledge Act by NGO „ ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories): http://archives.eprints.org/ Privacy Ukraine with the support from OSI „ OAIster: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ Information program

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