1. Open Access in South Africa
New roles and responsibilities for new imperatives
Ina Smith
23 September 2014
2. SA Bill of Rights (SA Constitution)
Everybody has the right to …
Information
Education
http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/bill-of-rights/Infomration http://www.belgrade-meu.org/beum-herald/
3. Human Development Index
Country
HDI
Life expectancy
Expected years of schooling
Gross national income per capita ($)
1
Norway
0.944
81.5
17.6
63.909
57
Russian Federation
0.778
68.0
14.0
22.617
79
Brazil
0.744
73.9
15.2
14.275
91
China
0.719
75.3
12.9
11.477
118
South Africa
0.658
56.9
13.1
11.788
135
India
0.586
66.4
11.7
5.150
United Nations Development Programme (2014)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/table-1-human-development-index-and-its-components
long and healthy life - access to knowledge - decent standard of living
4. Opening access to information for a better educated nation, that has a higher life expectancy …
5. “Universities and researchers are coming under increasing pressure to demonstrate the wider impact that their funded research has beyond the end of the research project.”
Manchester Univ. eScholar Blog (2012)
6. Crises in education … “Provide long- term solutions to the deep-seated educational and publishing crises in Africa.” (Raju et al. 2014)
7. Open Access for SA
“Open access promotes the distribution of scholarly literature for the growth and development of research and society - connecting researcher, society and development.” (Raju et al. 2014)
“The issue of connectedness highlights the fact that the research process is only complete when the end product is distributed as widely as possible.” (Raju et al. 2014)
9. Open Access Journals
Systems support: software installation, upgrades, back-up’s, digital preservation
Training and continuous support, communication
Identify and implement new trends, e.g. ORCID (South African Journal of Library and Information Science)
Identify opportunities to increase visibility
Demonstrating impact
11. Institutional Repositories
Institutional repositories are becoming the mainstream responsibility of the library (Raju et al. 2014)
Number of institutions have developed roles with responsibility specifically for the institution’s repository
Job titles: Repository Administrator/Manager/ Scholarly Communications Manager
12. Repository management - extension of the role and responsibility of the Systems Librarian, Acquisitions Librarian, Research Librarian, Law Librarian and Specialist: Records, Management and Archival Services
13. Understanding of …
Scholarly communication practices of individual disciplines, even as they are rapidly evolving
Scholars’ use of pre-publication research material
Support pace of scientific discovery, encourage innovation, enrich education, stimulate economy
14. Responsibilities
Solicit prime research output for ingestion into repositories
Advocate for OA & publishing in OA journals
Influence the development of alternative metrics (Altmetrics)
Interpret & apply copyright, publishers’ restrictions and embargoes – clear rights
Creative Commons Licenses
Negotiate rights with publishers
Protect & preserve local content – strengthen intellectual capacity
15. Identify OA resources to address needs
Evaluate resources – quality information
‘Uploaders’- sharing information
Improving usage and impact of research output
Research Data Management
Development of policies for the collection and dissemination of published research output either in pre-print, post-print or the publisher’s version format
16. Task force on librarians’ competencies …
… in support of e-research and scholarly communication
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/support-and-training/ task-force-competencies/
17. Task force scope of work
Identify service areas for libraries within the context of e-research, repository management & scholarly communication
Map the services & roles to the competencies required by librarians and library professionals
Note array of organizational models evolving to support new services
Produce a toolkit that will help to build capacity in libraries for supporting new roles
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
18. Competency areas
Research Data Management (RDM)
Scholarly Communication & Open Access (OA)
Digital Humanities (DH)
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
19. Competency area: Research Data Management (RDM)
Core competencies
Providing access to data
Advocacy & support for managing data
Managing data collections
Related service areas & roles
OA & institutional repositories, collection development, advisory services (copyright, policies, etc.), information literacy, digital curation, digital preservation, digital collections
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
20. To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
21. Competency area: Scholarly Communication & OA
Core competencies
Scholarly publishing services
Copyright & OA advocacy & outreach
Scholarly resource assessment
Related service areas & roles
Research data management, collection development, advisory services (copyright, policies, etc.), information literacy
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
22. To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
23. Competency area: Digital Humanities (DH)
Core competencies
Scholarly communication & publishing
Technical services & collection management
Digital lifecycle information management
Client engagement & training
Related service areas & roles
Repository Manager, Data Manager & Scholarly Communication Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
24. To work with
Digital Repository Librarian, Subject Librarian, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Digital Humanities Librarian
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
25. Next …
Reviewing draft profiles & engaging in describing other service areas: Digital preservation: Digital Curation, Metadata, Research Support, Instructional Services, Repository Management, Digital Initiatives, Technology Services
Clustering competencies/specializations
Developing an online toolkit that will allow library managers
Provide an outline of new organizational models for libraries
(Kuchma et al. 2014)
26. Recommendations
All librarians – OA not exclusive
Training & self-learning (lifelong learners)
More collaboration between institutions, e.g. SEALS Consortium to overcome logistical issues
27. “We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity”.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
29. Bibliography
Kuchma, I et al., Librarians’ Competencies in Support of E-Research and Scholarly Communication, LIBER 43rd Annual Conference, Riga July 4, 2014
Raju, R, Raju, J & Smith, I, 2014, South Africa: the role of open access in promoting local content, increasing its usage and impact and protecting it [unpublished]
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