Open Access Week @ Ayesha Abed Library
BRAC University
October 30, 2011
What is Open Access
“Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, original, free
of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. Open Access removes price barriers
(subscriptions, licensing fees, pay per view fees) and
permission barriers for scholarly use (most copyright and
licensing restrictions) and thus stands for free availability and
unrestricted use of scholarly content. ” (Peter Suber)
Peter Suber, A very brief introduction to Open Access
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
Why do we need Open Access?
• Research is traditionally disseminated via
journal articles and conference papers
• Scholarly research is not freely accessible
under the traditional model of
subscription based journals
• Access is inequitable and based on ability
to pay
• Research is not being disseminated as
widely as it could be
Open Access
Advantages and Benefits
Benefits for authors
• Open access provides authors with a
worldwide audience
• Open access increases the visibility and
impact of their work
• Open access widens opportunities for
funding and international collaboration
Benefits for libraries
• In the long term Open Access may help
alleviate the problem of increasing
journal subscription costs
• Open access helps libraries provide what
their readers need
• Open access helps libraries to work
closely with authors and other parts of
the university to make the research
output more visible
Benefits for universities
• Increases the visibility and impact of the
research being carried out in an
institution
• Institutional repositories provide a showcase for a University’s research
• Open access is a major tool in attracting
new students and staff to a university
• Open access helps universities to share
their knowledge and expertise
Vehicles of Open Access
• Institutional Repository
– No peer review
– Institutional or disciplinary
– Preprints and postprints
– Interoperable through OAI protocol
– Open-source software
– Easy to launch, no waiting, low investment
• Open Access Journals
– Peer review
– More difficult to launch or convert
• Other
– Personal web sites, ebooks, blogs, wikis, listservs, P2P,
RSS
The current state of Open Access
• Over 7,200 open access journals listed by the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (October
26 2011)
• Over 2100 repositories listed by the Directory of
Open Access Repositories (October 10 2011)
• New mandates and policies being announced
regularly
• Publishers engaging with open access in a variety
of ways
2011-10-10
2100 repositories
2010-12-15
1800 repositories
2010-1-28
1500 repositories
2008-11-26
1200 repositories
2007-11-19
900 repositories
2006-9-5
Source: http://www.opendoar.org/ (October 26, 2011)
600 repositories
2006-3-22
300 repositories
Open Access
@BRACU Library
Open Access Repository
@BRACU Library
dspace.bracu.ac.bd
Total Visit per Month
BRAC Business
School (BBS)
July
2011
Aug
2011
Sep
2011
Oct
2011
Top country views
88
55
63
131
China (90), Bangladesh (76), USA
( 37), Russian Federation (16), UK(12)
Germany (9), Japan (4), Hong Kong (2), Sweden
(2), Ukraine (2)
47
55
62
114
China (65) Bangladesh (44) USA (18) Russian
Federation (17) Germany (14), Brazil (4),UK(4)
Italy (4), Ukraine (4), Japan (3)
25
34
75
61
China (69), Bangladesh (30), USA
( 21), Russian Federation (13) Germany (8),
Brazil (2), UK( 2), Sweden (2), Hong Kong (1) Iran
(1)
27
35
49
51
China (66), USA( 33), Russian Federation (19),
Germany (10), Bangladesh (8) UK(2), Hong Kong
(2), Japan (2), Sweden (2), Kuwait (1)
21
32
39
99 *
China( 87), USA( 21), Russian Federation (16),
Germany (9), Bangladesh (6), UK (3), Japan (3),
Ukraine (2), Canada (1), Hong Kong (1)
Total Item 77
School of
Engineering and
Computer Science
(SECS)
Total Item 207
English and
Humanities (ENH)
Total Item 83
Institute of
Governance Studies
(IGS)
Total Item 81
Department of
Architecture
Total Item 22
Total Visit per Month
July
2011
Aug
2011
Sep
2011
Oct
2011
Top country views
James P Grant
School of
Public Health
(JPGSPH)
Total Item 21
30
37
62
62
China (90), Bangladesh (76), USA
( 37), Russian Federation (16), UK(12),Germany
(9), Japan (4), Hong Kong (2), Sweden (2),
Ukraine (2)
BRAC
Development
Institute (BDI)
Total Item 20
23
33
35
76
China (87), USA (19), Russian Federation (160),
Germany (14), Bangladesh (8) UK (30), Japan (2),
Brazil (1), Hong Kong(1), Sweden (1)
Centre for
Research on
Bangla
Language
Processing
(CRBLP)
Total Item 66
35
37
49
70
China (87), USA (20), Russian Federation (17),
Germany (14), Bangladesh (8), Italy (3),UK (2),
Japan (2), Ukraine (2), France (1)
Economics and
Social Sciences
(ESS)
Total Item 7
28
35
42
72*
China (88), USA (21), Russian Federation (17),
Germany (14), Bangladesh (9), Japan (4) UK( 2),
Ukraine (2), Hong Kong(1), Sweden (1)
Department of
Mathematics
and Natural
Science (MNS)
19
33
42
71
China (84), USA( 20), Russian Federation (16),
Germany (14), Bangladesh (5), Japan (4), Sweden
(3), UK( 2), Canada (1), Hong Kong (1)
Open Access
@BRACU Library
Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
• DOAJ - www.doaj.org
- An indexing service for OA journals.
- This service covers free, full text, quality
controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
- Lists 7,200 journals, Currently 3357
journals can be searched at article level
- As of today 6,54,335 articles are included
in the DOAJ service.
Open Access Journal
@BRACU Library
References
• SHERPA Project: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
(includes advocacy materials and the
SHERPA/RoMEO database of publisher policies)
• Directory of Open Access journals:
http://www.doaj.org
• Directory of Open Access Repositories:
http://www.opendoar.org
• Peter Suber’s Open Access News:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
• INASP for supporting the workshop
Thank You