Institutional Repositories & Open Access resources for PhD students

Sarika Sawant, PhDSHPT School of Library Science

SNDT Women’s UniversityPresentation at Research Methodology Workshop

May 21 – June 1, 2012On 22/05/2012

Outline

• Scholarly communication• Open access • Self archiving and its various ways• Directories • IR’s, Subject repositories, Cross archives• Open sources useful for PhD

Scholarly Communication Defined

creating, creating,

disseminatingdisseminating

and preserving scientific knowledgeand preserving scientific knowledge

network of complex relationships between a number of players - authors, editors, publishers, distributors, librarians and most importantly consumers of scholarly information

Scholarly Communication in Crisis

• Increasing control of scholarly journals industry by the commercials firms • High cost of scholarly journals verses low library

budget• Shift from print to electronic form: the legal

framework • Battle of ownership verses access• Advent of open access publishing is a direct threat

to commercial publishers.• Growing awareness of utilization of money

generated from taxpayers

Traditional & Open access models

What is "Open Access"

• According to"Budapest Open Access Initiative" (BOAI) – It’s free availability on the public internet, permitting any

users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited

(http: //www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml).

• BOAI recommend two complementary strategies for authors to participate in open access these are:– Open Access Journals (Golden Road)– Self-Archiving of E-Prints (Green Road)

Open access journals

• Open access journals – e-journals (supplementary fee-based print

versions)– freely available – Born-OA journals– Delayed OA journals– Author paid OA journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals

• DOAJ AS OF TODAY– 7267 journals – 3389 journals searchable at article level – 669521 articles

– India 5th Rank among 117 countries – 360 journals

Economics (174 journals)

Sociology (125 journals)

Author paid

journal

Free journal

BioMed Central

• Largest publisher of OA journals• Launched in 2000• More than 200+ titles, 60,000+ articles• Cost coverd by article processing charges

Medknow Publications

It is a publisher for peer-reviewed, online/print+online journals in the area of STM.

• 199 Total journals• 172 Total associations / societies• 76,079 Total articles• 68,167 Full text articles• 18,976 Manuscripts submitted in '12• 111 Manuscripts submitted on May 20, 2012• 2,252,646 Articles downloaded in Apr '12• 76,587 Articles downloaded on May 20, 2012

Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) http://oajse.com/index.html

• There are 4,775 journals in the directory.• All are searchable at article level.• 100+ social science journals• 90+ Language and literature• 15+ gender studies• 80+ economics

Self-Archiving of E-Prints

• "Self-archiving" refers to making "e-prints" available on the Web. An e-print is either a digital preprint or a postprint.

E-prints are typically made available in one of four

primary ways: • author's personal website; • a disciplinary archive that includes works by authors

worldwide about one or more subjects;• an institutional e-print archive that includes e-prints

by authors in a single academic unit, such as a department, or the entire institution; or

• an institutional repository that includes diverse types of digital works (e.g., data sets, electronic theses and dissertations, presentations, and technical reports), including e-prints, by authors at a single institution.

Definition of IR

• 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.

To the institution, an 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• Possible long term cost savings

Benefits to authors

• Increased dissemination and impact• Storage and access to a wide range of

materials• Feedback and commentary• Provision of added value services

For Society

• Provide access to the world’s research• Ensures long-term preservation of institutes’

academic output

Contents of an IR• Pre-prints / post prints • Research reports, Conference papers / posters• Book reviews• Teaching materials• Student’s assignments / projects• Doctoral theses and dissertations• Audio / video materials such as speech • Photographs / images• Convocation address, • Annual reports / manuscripts / maps• Newspaper clippings / articles• Profiles of faculty members / administrative staff / scientists etc.

Authorised contributors

• Students, • Research scholars, • Teachers, • Scientists, • Administrative staff• Academic support staff

Personal website

E-print of the article

Disciplinary/Subject archive

OpenMED@NIC

Departmental archive

Contributors

Institutional repository

Thesis and Dissertations [58]

IISc Bangalore

Centre for Continuing Education

(1)

Theses and Dissertation Repositories

Pondicherry University

[448]

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences[20]– School of Health Systems Studies [1]– School of Management & Labour Studies [2]– School of Social Sciences [16]– School of Social Work [1]

Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

Vidyanidhi

5482

– DE.Economics » DE.Economics » DE1.Transportation

• DE11.Transportation » DE2.Business Economics

• DE21.Business Economics

– DF.Education » DF.Education » DF1.Extension Education

• DF11.Extension Education

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Directories of Open Archives: ROAR

OpenDOAR

Directory of Open access Bookshttp://www.doabooks.org/

Open/Free Software's useful for doing PhD

Zotero

Back-up and synchronization

2.25 GB Free

Dropbox

Version control

Graphics: Gimp

Dia

Calendar/Diary : Gcalender (its free not Open Source)

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

• set of copyright licenses and tools• http://creativecommons.org/about

The presentation will be available on the following linkhttps://sites.google.com/site/drsarikasawant/about-me/talks-presentations