Collaborative Approach to Open Access: Experience from Bioline International Leslie Chan Associate Director Bioline International University of Toronto Scarborough Leslie Chan Associate Director Bioline International University of Toronto Scarborough Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May

 What is Bioline International  Objectives  Operation  Partnership  Funding and support  Major Outcomes  What is Bioline International  Objectives  Operation  Partnership  Funding and support  Major Outcomes

What is Bioline International?  Electronic aggregator of full text journals from developing countries  OAI data provider  Serve as open access platform for journals without the necessary infrastructure  A South-North collaboration  Electronic aggregator of full text journals from developing countries  OAI data provider  Serve as open access platform for journals without the necessary infrastructure  A South-North collaboration

Bioline International  Development - using open source software and open standards  Advocacy - Aims to influence scholarly communication practices and access to research literature  Research - Will open access improve the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries? How effective are research libraries in enabling international collaboration?  Development - using open source software and open standards  Advocacy - Aims to influence scholarly communication practices and access to research literature  Research - Will open access improve the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries? How effective are research libraries in enabling international collaboration?

Core Partners EPT, UK CRIA, Brazil UT, Canada

Funding Support  University of Toronto Libraries  Department of Social Sciences, U of T at Scarborough  CRIA - In-kind Technical Support  Open Society Institute, Information Access Program  Many Volunteers!!  University of Toronto Libraries  Department of Social Sciences, U of T at Scarborough  CRIA - In-kind Technical Support  Open Society Institute, Information Access Program  Many Volunteers!!

Publishing Partners  Scholarly and Scientific societies from 17 countries  Research centers in biology health, agriculture  university-based publications  All non-profit and willing to experiment with free online access  Most are supported by local subsidies and international aids  Scholarly and Scientific societies from 17 countries  Research centers in biology health, agriculture  university-based publications  All non-profit and willing to experiment with free online access  Most are supported by local subsidies and international aids

New journal issues are published, electronic files are created BIOLINE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL CONVERSION PROCESS Links to.JPEG images for each article are added & checked. XML abstract files are created, HTML is cross checked with printed copy or PDF of original, links Original electronic (or scanned) files are converted to HTML. Standard formatting is applied, copyright & journal information is added to each file. ARTICLE CONVERSION Tables, equations, photos and figures from each article are made into.JPEG images for easily linking & retrieval from HTML documents. IMAGE CONVERSION FINAL TOUCHES & CHECKING FOR ACCURACY Bioline staff contact publishers, gather & organize electronic files from the publisher directly via , through postal mail, download from journal websites or scan FILE GATHERING & ORGANIZING Completed journal issues are uploaded to the CRIA server in Brazil, checked for accuracy and publishers & users are notified of the new issue online. UPLOAD & CHECK PDF versions of journal articles are deposited to the U of Toronto’s Digital Repository. All related files are archived by Bioline staff on CD-Rom for safe keeping. TSpace & File Archiving

PDF HTML XML Species 2000 Species 2000 DSMZ HTML Full Paper Repository HTML Full Paper Repository XML Config Files XML Config Files Abstracts Repository (XML) Abstracts Repository (XML) OAI PMH OAI PMH OAI PMH OAI PMH OAI PMH PDF Full Paper Repository PDF Full Paper Repository Aux Files (XML/HTML) Aux Files (XML/HTML) Controler Database Controler Database Species Names Database Species Names Database Abstracts Database Abstracts Database OAI Harvester OAI Harvester OAI Harvester OAI Harvester OAI Harvester HTML abstract journals homepage fullpaper HTML PDF fullpaper Bioline International Website CRIA Website U of T Digital Repository UT Document tagging and formatting UT Document tagging and formatting

Meta-data exchange and dissemination partners  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  The eGranary Digital Library  Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)  OAIster.org  Scientific and Technical Information System  University of Toronto Libraries - T-Space  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  The eGranary Digital Library  Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)  OAIster.org  Scientific and Technical Information System  University of Toronto Libraries - T-Space -

Conclusions  OA is increasing the visibility, accessibility and impact of some of the journals from developing countries  Collaboration is key and low cost  Open linking is crucial  Need to develop value-added services with OA databases and open standards  Alternative and more inclusive measures of research impact is emerging but OA is the foundation  Need to educate funding agencies about the benefits of OA  OA is increasing the visibility, accessibility and impact of some of the journals from developing countries  Collaboration is key and low cost  Open linking is crucial  Need to develop value-added services with OA databases and open standards  Alternative and more inclusive measures of research impact is emerging but OA is the foundation  Need to educate funding agencies about the benefits of OA

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