Summary
OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING AND REPOSITORIES
Typical questions
• Can I upload a copy of an article published last year to my personal website?
• Does this publisher allow draft versions of articles to be made freely available online?
Points to consider
• Open access usually refers to making material available to everyone via the internet free of charge.
• Increasingly, academic institutions are establishing websites called institutional repositories, where they are making available outputs from their research (papers, reports, journal articles, theses and learning materials). Where copyright allows, they are placing full-text versions online. However, in terms of commercially published materials the version they make available is subject to copyright restrictions and is often an author version (pre-proof or draft) rather than the final, published version. Therefore students should check carefully the content and how to cite it.
• This section offers guidance on where to find information about maintaining and populating a repository, the growth of the open access movement and examples of key directories of open access repositories. More specific subject-based examples are found in the subject sections.
Where to look
Open access support
Eprints.org
www.eprints.org
Site developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton to support EPrints open source software. It provides free access to a wealth of resources, including technical support documents, FAQs on self-archiving for authors and an extensive directory of useful links. Also available is the EPrints ROARMAP service, roarmap.eprints.org, a searchable register of mandates and policies on open access publishing from institutions and research funders.
JISC Repositories and Support Programme
www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_rep_pres.aspx
JISC supports the innovative use of new technology in the UK higher and further education sectors using funding received from the UK government. It has been heavily involved in promoting the management and development of institutional repositories. Its website is a key starting-point for tracing both historic and current programmes. Topics covered include technical infrastructure, digital preservation and legal concerns. A major initiative is the Repositories support project (RSP), www.rsp.ac.uk (funded 2006–12). This has a separate website with sections covering starting up a repository, advocacy and technical support. There are links to many examples of open access repository projects.
SHERPA
www.sherpa.ac.uk
Consortium led by the University of Nottingham that is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication, focusing in particular on open access repositories.
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- Know it All, Find it Fast for Academic Libraries , pp. 275 - 280Publisher: FacetPrint publication year: 2011