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Open Access Publishing Round Table Minutes |
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Written by Cynthia Hashert-Auraria Library
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
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August 15, 2008
9-12
CO Alliance
ATTENDING: Gayle
Bradbeer (Auraria), Rick Boeder (Auraria), Chris Brown (DU), Alan Charnes, Jayati
Chaudhuri (UNC), Carol Dickerson (CC), Yem Fong (UCB), Rebecca
Harner (CC), Cynthia Hashert, Dave Hodges (UCCS), Joe Kraus (DU), Joan Lamborn
(UNC), George Machovic, Rose Nelson, Chris Sugnet (CSU)
Libraries and the Alliance
gave updates of activities:
The Collaborative Librarianship editorial
board is working on bringing up the first issue of that open access journal. Ivan
Gaetz (Regis) is the current editor. The publishing and management software for
this e-journal is the widely-used OJS (Open Journal Systems - for more info see
Public Knowledge Project at http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs).
George noted that OJS is a separate silo and it is not an archive. There might
be a grant opportunity of integrating OJS with Fedora.
CC
created an informational guide about Open Access at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/library/index.php/guides/open-access.
Rebecca Harner described the successful Open Access forum held at CC. They took
the Harvard mandate as a hook to develop interest in attending the forum. The
forum was informal and included lunch. They advertised it widely on campus. The
faculty that attended was a good mix from various disciplines
Joe
Kraus suggested following the open access blogs at Harvard, Stanford, and the
Open Access Directory wiki as a way of keeping current and becoming informed.
CSU
wants to get on the radar of the V-P for Research. They have developed policies using the Cal State
model and started with the Vet
School. Idea is for
faculty to submit a form when they submit an article for publication that
spells out what their rights are as an author and what they are going to do
with the article.
Yem
Fong reported that they have participated in the ARL/ACRL scholarly
communications institute. The CU Boulder faculty assembly has been discussing
open access and there is a library committee working on an open access
resolution. This resolution to support open access will go to faculty assembly
for adoption. They are going to survey select faculty to ascertain how much
they know about open access and institutional repositories.
At UNC,
they have a scholarly communications committee, have attended the ARL scholarly
communications institute, and are seeking ideas from this group.
Auraria
has considered sending participants to the scholarly communications institute
and is identifying faculty or administrative partners. They are seeking ideas
from the round table group as well.
Issues, Challenges, Initiatives of Open
Access
Sustainibility - Artstor is sustained by subscriptions
and Carnegie Mellon backing. DOAJ is asking for contributions. Other OA
publishers ask the contributing authors to pay and in some cases the university
administrations and/or libraries agree to subsidies these fees. Locally, DPL makes lower resolution images
available but will charge for higher resolution. Therefore, the ADR will have an e-commerce
function with the money going back to the institution.
Textbooks and Course Support - Rice University Press is becoming an
open access publisher. They are purchasing rights to publish 10 e-textbooks.
Chris S. pondered the possibility of using IRs to mitigate the cost of
textbooks. Faculty could put their own textbooks into the IR. Faculty will very
likely put their own supplementary course information into the IRs. Boulder has created
shared syllabi, a social networking tool for Teaching Assistants.
Quality and Peer Review - Some faculty question the quality of
open access publications. Commercial publishers lobby faculty and tell them
that "their" journals are under attack by OA initiatives, that impact factors
and quality are eroded. This is less of an issue as peer review is used and
major players are entering into open access. In many cases, OA journals have
good impact factors. Knowing where to post OA journals (Sherpa, Romeo, DOAJ)
raises impact factors. Libraries need to educate and work with faculty to
disperse these fears. Faculty need more information/explanation about what
their author rights are.
Metadata - Chris B reported that Oregon State
has set up a true federated search using Library Find which is open access
software. Oregon
has most of EbscoHost's metadata available in LibraryFind and they do monthly
loads of new content.
The Alliance asked Elsevier
for their metadata to put under the local umbrella of a next gen catalog.
Elsevier said yes but put a price tag of about $250K on the metadata, so at
least some publishers view metadata as a valuable asset. That is why OhioLink
and others have huge archival repositories of e-journals and contracts that
retain hosting rights.
Alliance Digital Repository
The Alliance is building
portals for all the participating institutions that will result in a searchable
interface and pull the ingested content back out. There will be 12 "scoped
views" and then one "global view" of what the individuals institutions decide
to show as open access. With this individualized branding, the libraries will
have an excellent marketing tool.
The Alliance is working on a
broad set of template agreements for us the use. All types of formats will be
handled by the ADR. Currently, there is no video viewer, but Media Player, Real
Player, etc may be used.
ETDs - For theses and dissertations, the Alliance
was worked with Proquest that if ETDs go into the Proquest portal, the Alliance gets a copy of the
content and the metadata and it will be put into the ADR. A "pre-submissions"
copy of the ETD comes to the ADR therefore, it is somewhat different than the
Proquest version.
However,
working out local university/college policies is still a challenge. Some
students are concerned about open access. They think that they might want to
publish a version of their dissertation as a monograph, but are concerned that
it would lose value if it is available through open access. It is up to the
student to tell Proquest if they want their EDT to be open access or not. The
student fills out a form with that information. If they check NO to open
access, it will not be open access in the ADR.
Perhaps the Graduate Schools could advise students to check the YES to
open access box on the Proquest form.
Datasets - Inputting raw datasets are a problem to
pull out because the numbers have to go into "something". Carol brought up the
possibility of dataset curation and preservation which via collaboration may be
an area for possible grants. Chris S suggested that Univ of Michigan is looking
into dataset curation.
DU is
putting materials into the ADR in 3 categories: 1) library documents, 2)
university documents, 3) faculty submissions. DU has something like 10K digital
objects and is in the process of loading into the ADR. Because some of these
images are huge, it is a labor intensive project. They have been working with
the legal counsel to come up with a unified agreement for the faculty
submissions into the ADR...a "deed of gift". Faculty will be instructed in how to
create metadata for their submissions. They are developing a purge
cycle/policy.
Undergraduate Research - Another possibility to investigate is
the buzz around undergraduate research. UCCS described their Journal of Ungraduate
Research. They did a survey and targeted Political Science and Sociology
faculty to broadened the undergraduate research scope but did not have the kind
of faculty response that they hoped for. Several institutions indicated that
they had departments devoted to undergraduate"something"... research, artistry,
experience, etc. SPARC has a conference on undergraduate research.
Grants - Carol Dickerson is looking for possible grants to pursue
in the area of open access and the ADR.
Mentioned previously were the OJS/Fedora and the dataset
curation/preservation ideas. Other ideas that surfaced: 1) fast-tracking a
portal for the School of Public Health, 2) Growing the Creating
Communities/Neighborhoods initiative into an "Encyclopedia of the West" into which
unique content for the region is included (think "Encyclopedia of Chicago"),
and 3) Partnering with k-12 public schools in developing a database of syllabi.
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