Presentation on Open Access journals and the importance for researchers

2. Presentation Outline

3. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2582125/UJ_Open_Access_Week_2010

4. Why do we promote Open Access (OA)?
Open Access provide free, immediate, online access to the
published results of scholarly research
• About 25,000 peer-reviewed journals are published worldwide
• Universities and research institutions afford to subscribe to a
fraction of those journals
• That means that research is having only a fraction of its
potential usage and impact
• If 100% of research articles were freely accessible through
OA, then the usage, impact, productivity and progress of
research would be maximised.
“Scientific Dissemination using Open Access”

5. UJ Subscription-based Databases
Over 150 Databases in 2011; Over R 7.5 millions

6. http://www.univen.ac.za/library_databases.html
Only 12 Databases +
2 Open Access Journals
collections
The lack of Databases
subscriptions, will
restrict students
access to information
and consequently will
lead to low research
output.

7. Open Access Journal Collections & Web Resources

8. Open Access for Researchers
• Open Access
- maximises the access to research findings,
- increases research impact to a wider readership,
- expands shared knowledge across scientific field,
- make your research output more visible to
researchers elsewhere, and make research from
elsewhere more accessible to them,
- increases the citation impact of the author,
- over time increases the journal impact factor (?)

9. What else do Researchers need to know about OA?
• What OA journals exist in your research field?
- Open Science Directory, PubMed Central, PloS, ...
• What Institutional Repository your institution use and how a
researchers can benefit from it?
- UJDigispace, IRSpace, OpenDOAR, ROAR
• Publishing in subscription-based journals, can limit your readership
• Publishing your pre-print article in OA repositories can enlarge your
readership and citation impact: Arxiv.org; UJDigispace.
• Deposit your post-prints in a OA repository: UJDigispace
• As a Researcher you have an option to publish in Accredited Open
Access Journals (AOAJSA, cont.)

10. Accredited Open Access Journals – South Africa (AOAJSA)
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/aoajsa.htm

11. Funding for publishing in OA Journals
• Funding options for OA journals and researchers:
- OA journals do not generate revenue
- OA Publishers receive funding in exchange for advertising on
their web
- Some OA journals require payments from the Authors for
article submission
- Government can subsidise OA publishers/institutions for
producing freely available information
- International funding agencies (Collaboration)
- Institutional/University Membership paid on behalf of the
Authors

12. AFRICAN & SOUTH AFRICAN
OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL COLLECTIONS
1. SABINET: African Journals Online Archives
2. SABINET: Open Access South African Journals
3. SciElo (Academy of Science of South Africa – ASSAF)

13. African Journals Online Archives:
Free Access to Journals with a focus in
Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities

14. African Journals Archive
http://www.ajarchive.org

15. Open Access to Current South African Journals
• The collection currently comprises 46 South African journals
(12 titles are discontinued)
• Multidisciplinary collection
• Searched individually
• 6 000 + full-text articles in PDF
• 15 Accredited/Approved Journals (DoE, ISI, IBSS)
• The copyright of each journal in this collection resides with
the publisher of the journal.
• The journals are also available on SA ePublications database
http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

16. http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

17. http://www.scielo.org.za
The Scientific Electronic Library Online
Academy of Science of South Africa - ASSAf

18. SOUTH AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (IR)
UJDigispace : UJ IR
IRSpace: South African IR
Open DOAR: International IR Directory
ROAR: Registry of OA Repository
Driver: IR for European Research

19. UJDigiSpace:
University of
Johannesburg
Institutional
Repository
http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za:8080/dspace/

20. http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013518019117943970829%3Atlw8-sayn_q

21. Open DOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/search.php

22. Registry of Open Access Repository (ROAR)
http://roar.eprints.org/

23. Driver for European Research
http://search.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/

24. OPEN ACCESS
JOURNAL COLLECTIONS

25. http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

26. http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?id=8623&sid=128711641&TabID=2

27. http://www.doaj.org

28. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

29. http://www.plos.org/journals

30. BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Academic Open Access web resources
http://www.base-search.net

31. http://www.bentham.org/open/tobiocj/index.htm

32. Golonka Resources
e-Math for Africa; e-Physics for Africa; e-Chemistry for Africa
e-Physics for Africa: http://physics.golonka.se/
e-Math for Africa: http://math.golonka.se/
e-Chemistry for Africa: http://chemistry.golonka.se/
The main purpose is to promote the
use of Open Access journals and other
scientific resources, as well as being a
platform for consortia building.

33. http://arxiv.org

34. http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596

35. Open Access Publishers: some statistics
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.0506.pdf

36. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.0506.pdf
Commercial Publishers with hybrid option

37. LIBRARY USER EDUCATION
Searching for Open Access Journals:
• UJLink (Library Catalogue)
• A-to-Z list
• Open Science Directory
• Google Scholar

38. Biochemistry 1B Practical, Aug 2010: Library Training
2 Open Access journals to write a research report

39. Search for Journals & Journal Articles
http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbwiki.com/Biochemistry

40. Case: A-to-Z Journals
How to Find Online Journals/Books
Result List
Type the
title

41. UJLink: Library Catalogue (http://ujlink.uj.ac.za/)
List of
Databases
Your Library
Account
Search for Print &
Online Journals &
Books

42. Open Science Directory
Freely available scholarly journals

43. Google Scholar (Academic articles)
(http://scholar.google.com)

44. PROMOTING OPEN ACCESS @ UJ

45. Promoting Open Access (OA) @ UJ in 2009
• March 2009: UJ Institutional Repository (IR) officially launched
(UJDigispace: http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za:8080/dspace/
• August 2009: Open Access Resources Portal for Sciences
http://ujscienceslibrarynews.wordpress.com/open-access-oa/
• October 2009: Library initiative in promoting OA
- 3 UJ Intranet circular/notifications
- Brochures
- Exhibition on each Campus Library
- Open access T-shirts, notepads, etc.
- Talk about OA & IR during open access week
- A post on the UJ Sciences Librarian blog, e-mail to the
Faculty of Science academics

46. Initiatives and Raising Awareness of
Open Access & Institutional Repository @ UJ in 2010
• UJ Open Access Mandate
• Institutional Repository & Faculty initiatives (ongoing)
• Library Open Access group meetings
• Join into the South African Open Access community
• Official UJ IR website
• Library Open Access week (18-24 Oct) initiatives:
- OA flyers & posters
- Exhibitions, video screening & Talks on each Campus
Library
- Open Access Day Seminar, 19 Oct 2010
- Awareness with social tools: Facebook, Twitter, blog post

47. APK display for OA Week 2010

48. UJ Institutional Repository/Open Access Portal
http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Library/Services/Institutional%20Repository/Pages/Features.aspx

49. UJ Sciences Open Access Portal
http://ujscienceslibrarynews.wordpress.com/open-access-oa
OA portal views: 392
OA blog post 2009: 44
OA blog post 2010: 5

50. Open Access & Institutional Repository:
Way forward for UJ
• UJ Open Access Mandate
• UJ Digispace and deposition of research output
• Building UJ OA Community
• Discuss UJ Institutional Membership to Open Access
Publishers
• Collaborate in creation of new UJ Open Access
Journals
• Join the world OA movement
• Open Educational Webcasting (lectures; training)
• Raising awareness of OA & IR among our peers

51. Open Access Book
http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html

52. Pavlinka Kovatcheva
E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
UJ Sciences Portal: http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/FrontPage
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