HOW TO PUBLISH IN AN OAI
REPOSITORY
Workshop Best Practices in Content
Management and Scientific Social Networks
Riyadh, 1 – 3 November 2008
CONTENTS
Summary
1. Goals of this Guide
2. Open Access fundaments
3. Submitting papers into a Repository
4. Conclusions
1. GOALS OF THIS GUIDE
1. Goals of this Guide
In this guide you will learn to:
► Understand the Open Access movement and its
implications in scholarly publishing.
► Recognize the different faces of Open Access.
► Know what is a repository and their types.
► How to upload a paper into a repository.
2. OPEN ACCESS FUNDAMENTS
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.1. Scientific literature purposes
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Introduction.
Social movement.
Technical infrastructure.
Legal environment.
Content production.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.1. Scientific literature purposes
Composed by:
► Set of guidelines and elements.
► The results: scientific literature.
Serves as a regulation of:
► Dissemination (Official publication).
► Priority of discovering (Prestige).
► Quality (Peer review).
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.1. Scientific literature purposes
Priority and quality still remains without changes…but
dissemination changed forever in 1969:
INTERNET WAS BORN
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.1. Scientific literature purposes
Advantages:
► An author can disseminate their work quickly, easily
and cheaply almost to a global audience, gaining
visibility to their work.
Disadvantages:
► Access
By economical affairs (abusive toll access).
By technological affairs (digital divide).
► Copyright belongs to the publisher.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Introduction.
Social movement.
Technical infrastructure.
Legal environment.
Content production.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Introduction.
► The OA movement emerges as a mechanism to exploit
the possibility by the author of disseminating their
work quickly and comprehensively, without the barrier of
copyright, so as to allow them free access, thus
increasing its visibility on the Internet and, therefore,
the chances of being cited.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Necessary to:
Create standards or guidelines.
Clarify what is the OA.
Explain how OA could be achieved, what aims for.
Is required a set of institutions or organizations
that support and disseminate these statements.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements.
► Infrastructures.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements.
1- Budapest (December 2001).
2- Bethesda (April 2003).
3- Berlin (October 2003).
Also Known as The BBB Statement.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► 2001.
Statements: Budapest 2001.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Budapest 2001 (I).
By ‘Open Access’ to this literature, we mean its 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.
IS TALKING ABOUT OPEN DISSEMINATION
TO AVOID ACCESS PROBLEMS
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Budapest 2001 (II).
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“.
IS TALKING ABOUT VISIBILITY
TO AVOID COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Budapest 2001 (III).
Routes to publish:
► Golden road (OA journals):
► Peer reviewed electronic journals which publish openly.
► Green road (OA archives):
► Peer reviewed electronic journals which not publish it
contents openly, but allow authors to upload their raw
unofficial”
“unofficial” work in repositories.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► 2003.
Statements: Bethesda 2003.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Bethesda 2003 (I).
► The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a
license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work
publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital
medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution
of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of
printed copies for their personal use.
IS TALKING ABOUT PRESERVATION
TO AVOID ACCESS PROBLEMS
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Bethesda 2003 (II).
“A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials,
including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable
standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial
publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an
academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or
other well-established organization that seeks to enable open
access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term
archiving”.
IS TALKING ABOUT PRESERVATION
TO AVOID ACCESS PROBLEMS
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► 2003.
Statements: Berlin 2003.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Statements: Berlin 2003 (I).
It broadens the scope of Bethesda statement considering not
strictly scientific materials, but software and metadata.
Also urges all authors, institutions and public authorities to
actively support initiatives that are now recognized as a
paradigm of open access.
IS TALKING ABOUT DEMANDING SUPPORT!
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Infrastructures.
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Infrastructures.
Institution level.
Regional area level.
Country area level.
International area level.
Let ‘s show European infrastructure
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Infrastructures: institutional level.
Polytechnic University of Catalonia: UPCommons
http://upcommons.upc.edu/
2. Open Access fundaments
► 2.2. Open Access Initiative
Social movement.
► Infrastructures: regional area level.
Recercat (Catalonia- Spanish region)
http://recercat.net/