1. TropMed Central Antwerp ITM Research Output Accessible To All? Kris Didden, Library ITM, June 10th 2009

2. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Outline Introduction Background Serials crisis © Consequences of copyright transfer by author Open Access as a solution? TropMed Central Antwerp (TMCA) + Harvesters Live demonstration Request from the library Impact of TMCA: usage statistics and citation advantage Selected list of links and literature

3. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Introduction WHAT? Repository = digital archive Similar to ITG Staff Publications database, but full text is free of copyright restrictions International network of repositories (universities, research institutes…) WHY? Collect, preserve and disseminate research output Improve the visibility of the Institutes scholarly publications Centralize its contents and metadata Self-archive the research output and provide open access to it Preserve digital grey literature

4. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – SERIALS CRISIS Authors criteria for publishing research results Peer review: quality assurance Publish in and cite from journals with high Impact Factor (SCI) Market evolution Monopoly of commercial publishers Increase in volume and number of titles of scientific literature Specialization: new journals High quality journals in demand

5. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – SERIALS CRISIS Top journals should be included in library collections Remark 1: median journal price change (2000-2006)* * Sources: Trends in Scholarly Journal Prices 2000-2006, LISU; Statbel

6. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – SERIALS CRISIS Remark 2 Average annual journal price changes (2000-06) – print subscriptions Commercial publishers (median journal prices) : 10% U.S. society-published journals (nonprofit):7.1% Average annual inflation rate (Belgium) for the same period:2.1% Different average % change per type of access E.g. U.S. society-published journals (2005-06) Print only (avg. for 140 journals)6.9% Print & online combined (avg. for 110 journals):16.2% Different tax rates for print and online subscription (Belgium) Print subscriptions: 6% Online subscriptions:21% * Source: 19th Annual Pricing Study of Society Journal Prices, The Newsletter for Journal Publishers, Allen Press (2007)

7. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – SERIALS CRISIS OKAY, BUT: 1.Increase of journal subscription prices 2.Library budgets have not kept the same pace over the years, while more and more face budget cuts anno 2009 Access to scientific literature at stake? Hard nuts to crack: no new titles? No online subscriptions? Cut back subscriptions in exchange for new ones?

8. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 © Background – COPYRIGHT TRANSFER Transfer of exploitation rights for electronic publishing Right to publish Right to make reproductions Right to distribute Exceptions: research, education

9. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 © Background – COPYRIGHT TRANSFER Consequences for authors (individual) Dissemination E-mail to colleagues? EducationE-learning environment Research use Personal usePrivate copy? Future reuse Single or continuous access? PreservationDeposit in a repository? Protection of copyrightPlagiarism? Consequences for libraries (institutional) Dissemination Internal, external (e.g. Docdel)? Access guaranteed?What after end of subscription? Reproduction Photocopying/scanning? Long-term preservation?Self-archiving?

10. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? Open Access 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 give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited

11. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? Open Access Initiative Declarations/statements of principles for institutions, governments and authors: Basic idea: no copyright or financial barriers research, funded by public means, is a public good and the results should therefore be freely accessible to the public Endorsed by c. 500 universities, research institutions, government councils, funding agencies, NGOs, libraries Budapest (2001) Open Access to peer-reviewed research literature Bethesda (2003) Open Access publishing Berlin (2003) Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

12. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 1.Publish in Open Access Journals – Gold Road Peer-reviewed © remains with the author Restrictions depend on the authors / publishers preferences Creative Commons licences Libre vs. Gratis Pure Gold vs. hybrid vs. delayed open access

13. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 1.Publish in Open Access Journals – Gold Road Peer-reviewed articles deposited in TMCA (2000-May 2009) (Source: DOAJ) 191 articles published in OAJ (av. 10%, 2008: 21,4%) 114 articles published in JIF-OAJ (av. 6%, 2008: 12%) 13% of all journals in which ITM authors have published is an OAJ 136 ITM authors have published in an OAJ 26% of them have published 33-100% of their articles in an OAJ

14. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 2.Self-archive Articles - Green Road 1.Publish article in traditional (toll-access) journal 2.Archive the author version in a subject or institutional repository in compliance with publishers archiving policy >90% of journals accept some form of self-archiving RoMEO COLORARCHIVING POLICY GREENcan archive pre-print and post-print BLUEcan archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) YELLOWcan archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) WHITEarchiving not formally supported

15. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 2.Self-archive Articles - Green Road Articles in TMCA (2000-May 2009) - Publishers archiving policies

16. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 2.Self-archive Articles - Green Road Repositories Open source software (DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, Open Repository) Digital libraries but with full text linked Include research output (peer-reviewed articles, other document types), theses, learning objects… Subject-based, institutional (private organizations, academic, research institutes), OA Journals… Global: >1400 Belgium: 25

17. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 Background – OPEN ACCESS AS A SOLUTION? 2.Self-archive Articles - Green Road Repositories: can quality be guaranteed? Funding agencies (NIH, Wellcome Trust, FWO,…) Peer-review is mandatory Self-archiving only after publication in journal Success of repositories will lead to journals demise

18. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation Software: DSpace Open-source software: database/metadata, archival storage (35 forms of content (text, image, video…)), web user interface, search/browse, OAI metadata providing service, handle server Contents of TropMed Central Antwerp ITM research output (articles, letters, editorials, issues, books, chapters, dissertations, documents, guidelines) & ITGPress publications 2000-present: 2424 items Regularly updated by the library Metadata + full text

19. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation Structure Repository

20. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

21. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

22. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation Collections: document types (2000- May 2009) COLLECTIONDOCUMENT TYPE# ARTICLESARTICLE1856 BOOKS AND CHAPTERSBOOK41 CHAPTER358 ISSUE10 GUIDELINES35 CD-ROM5 DISSERTATION64 DOCUMENT51

23. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation ITEM RECORD 1.Permanent and unique link to the record http://hdl.handle.net/10390/2243 http://hdl.handle.net/ system that redirects handle to original URL of the digital object 10390 unique handle number of TMCA 2243 unique number of record

24. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

25. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation ITEM RECORD 2.Bibliographic description Dublin Core Metadata Schema Author, title, journal name, publisher, subject, type of publication, abstract etc. Extra metadata (mostly links) added whenever available: Pubmed ID, DOI, URL

26. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

27. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation ITEM RECORD 3.Statistics: number of item views From December 2008 onwards On monthly basis

28. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

29. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation ITEM RECORD 4.Link to full text (bitstream) Link/filename: Publisher PDF or Author version (PDF) Size: KB, MB Format: 35 formats (text, application, image, video, audio) Statistics on number of times downloaded

30. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Presentation

31. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Demonstration http://dspace.itg.be

32. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Full text Full text coverage – complete collection

33. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Full text Distribution of full text per ITM department

34. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Full text Ultimate goal: 100% full text coverage BUT: Practical problems: size, document type (cd-rom, book) Publishers archiving policies (AP) Books & chapters: mostly non-existent (exc. ITM…) Articles Green, yellow, blue publishers White publishers, AP unknown: self-archiving not allowed Depositing publisher PDF accepted by some publishers (Some impose embargo: 6-24 months) June 1st 2009 Total collection 28.5% full text Articles (total article collection): 29% full text Articles (that may be archived): 40% full text

35. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Full text Full text coverage of articles in TMCA (as of June 1st 2009)

36. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Request REQUEST

37. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Request 1.Search your personal archive for every digital article, chapter or other publication 2000-2008 Author version (PDF or Word) NOT Publisher PDF 2009-…Author version AND Publisher PDF

38. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Request 2.Send the articles to dspace@itg.bedspace@itg.be 3.Library will check, filter and add the documents to the metadata in TMCA and ITG Staff Publications database

39. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Request Why contribute to TropMed Central Antwerp? Copyright / archiving Better control over your own publications Moral obligation towards funders of research (institution and the public) No extra work! (OK, hardly…) Promotion Researcher = author and reader Improved visibility of research output

40. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Harvesting Interoperability of database leads to improved visibility and accessibility Internet search engines: Google, Live, MSN, AOL, Yahoo Scientific search engines: harvesters HARVESTERSCREATED BYCONTRIBUTORS# DOCS European Commission >200 European repositories 1 mio docs EC + Gent Uni9 Belgian repositories >30,000 docs Michigan Uni>1,120 repositories, OA publishers etc. 22 mio docs Bielefeld Uni Library >1,240 repositories, OA publishers etc. 20 mio docs

41. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp - Demonstration DRIVER (EU) http://www.driver-repository.eu DRIVER (BE) http://www.driver-repository.be OAISTER http://www.oaister.org BASE http://www.base-search.net

42. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics Impact of the repository Usage statistics Citation advantage?

43. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics Number of visits (Dec 27th 2007 - May 31st 2009) Jan 1st – May 31st 2009: 17.9 visits / day

44. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics Pageviews & downloads per month (Jan 1 – May 31 2009)

45. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics Visitors: Dec. 27th 2007 – May 31st 2009 42% of all visits were made by returning visitors (i.e. who have consulted TMCA before)

46. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Usage Statistics Visitors: Dec. 27th 2007 – May 31st 2009

47. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Citation advantage? Citation advantage? Indications that improved visibility, i.e. higher hit counts (HTML) and more downloads (PDF), leads to higher citations Believers vs. non-believers

48. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

49. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Selected information General Suber, P 2007, Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints [Internet]. Richmond: Earlham College; c2004-2006 [last update 2007]. Available from: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm Chan, L., Swan, A. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: practical steps for implementing Open Access [Internet]. [S.l.] [last update 11 April 2009]. Available from: http://www.openoasis.orghttp://www.openoasis.org Bibliographies Bailey Jr., C. W. Open Access Bibliography: liberating scholarly literature with e-prints and Open Access Journals [Internet]. [S.l.]; 2008. Available from: http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm.http://www.digital-scholarship.com/oab/oab.htm Open Citation Project. The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. Southampton; University of Southampton; Available from: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html. Implications and opportunities for researchers Swan, A. 2006, The culture of Open Access: researchers views and responses. In: Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Chandos. Available from: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/.http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12428/ Kuchma, I. 2009, Open Access for researchers: enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Advanced and enhanced metrics. The evidences that Open Access leads to advancement of science and research. [presentation]. Available from: http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/training/2009-pretoria/open-access-forhttp://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa/training/2009-pretoria/open-access-for Open Access declarations Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtmlhttp://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htmhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm Berlin Declaration on Open access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

50. TropMed Central Antwerp: ITM Research Output Accessible to All? ITM Seminar June 10th 2009 TropMed Central Antwerp – Selected websites Repositories active in the same field as or working with ITM Pubmed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Scielohttp://www.scielo.org/http://www.scielo.org/ MSF Field Research http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/ Search4 dev – Digital documents by Dutch development organizations: http://www.search4dev.nl/ http://www.search4dev.nl/ WHO SEAR Institutional Repositoryhttp://repository.searo.who.int/http://repository.searo.who.int/ DSpace@ICDDR,B http://dspace.icddrb.org/dspace/http://dspace.icddrb.org/dspace/ Institutional Archive of Ghent University https://archive.ugent.behttps://archive.ugent.be Lirias https://lirias.kuleuven.be/https://lirias.kuleuven.be/ Harvesters Driver EU www.driver-repository.eu/www.driver-repository.eu/ DRIVER BE www.driver-repository.be/default.aspxwww.driver-repository.be/default.aspx OAISTER www.oaister.orgwww.oaister.org BASE www.base-search.net/www.base-search.net/