Unisa Institutional
Repository:
Sharing knowledge to
advance research
http://uir.unisa.ac.za
Presented by
Ansie van der Westhuizen
Training outline
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Introduction to UnisaIR
Copyright and Open Access
Searching the UnisaIR
Preparation of your items before
submission
• Submission process and practical exercise
http://uir.unisa.ac.za
Benefits
For the institution:
• Increases visibility and prestige of institution (depending on content contained)
• Content is searchable both locally and globally
• Allows institution to manage its intellectual property right (IP) by raising awareness of copyright
issues and facilitating the recording of relevant rights information
For the researcher:
• Increases visibility of research output
• Increases impact of your publications, as an author at the institution
• Offer usage metrics so researchers can determine hit rates on specific papers
For global community:
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Help research collaboration through facilitating
free exchange of scholarly information
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Assists in public understanding of research
endeavors and activities
Transition to OA through the Funding Agency Lens!
Selematsela, Daisy
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14268
Date: 2014-10-21
Examples of items in UnisaIR
Who may submit material?
UNISA employees and postgraduate
students on M/PhD-level may submit items
to the repository.
General statistical overview
UnisaIR Growth overview
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General statistical overview
UnisaIR Fulltext Views 2011-2014
5,439,719
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3,753,282
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Views per college
UnisaIR Views per College January-May 2014
3634
CLAW
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CGS
2721
CHS
9478
CEDU
5455
CEMS
8224
CAES
UnisaIR distribution of items among colleges
199, 3%
626, 9%
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388, 6%
989, 15%
95, 1%
3312, 49%
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Impact on online visibility
Unisa IR
Groenewald, Thomas
A phenomenological research design
illustrated. (International Journal of Qualitative
Methods, 4(1), pp1-25
Full text views: 15527
Google Scholar
A phenomenological research design illustrated
T Groenewald - 2004 - uir.unisa.ac.za
This article distills the core principles of a phenomenological research design and, by
means of a specific study, illustrates the phenomenological methodology. After a brief
overview of the developments of phenomenology, the research paradigm of the
specific ...
Cited by 524 Related articles All 11 versions
Definitions
Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the
Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and
disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution,
particularly a research institution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of an institution's
intellectual output.
IRs are a key infrastructure component in the digital environment because
they provide better access to our digital assets and they ensure that digital
objects are managed appropriately.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/canadian_projectse.html
Characteristics of Open Access
• The publisher charges directly for the service of publication/
dissemination - Costs covered by 'article processing
charge’ (APC)
• No barriers to access such as subscription costs
• Research immediately and permanently available via the
Internet - citations
• Licensed so as to allow redistribution and reuse (Creative
Commons)
• Archived permanently in an internationally recognized
repository (e.g. PubMed Central/WDS etc) - in multiple
locations to ensure long term access (DOI’s)
Open Access
• Open Access is the practice of providing unrestricted
access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal
articles.
• Gold Open Access – publish in OA journals
• Green Open Access – OA repository e.g.
UnisaIR
Versions of articles
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Pre-print
Post-print
Published version
Pdf format
Gold Open Access
• Article processing charges for the article to
be published freely available, for example
BioMed Central, Springer Open, Wiley’s
Open Access Journals, OASIS
OpenJournals
Green Open Access
Self-archiving – author archive the
manuscript in a repository
• Post-print, pre-print or publisher’s version
• Embargo period could apply
Open Access statement
http://www.nrf.ac.za/media-room/news/statement-open-accessresearch-publications-national-research-foundation-nrf-funded
The NRF recognises the importance of Open Access to
science and research while at the same time appreciating that
Open Access will continue to evolve in response to societal
needs, achieving overarching policy harmonisation and new
innovative publishing business models.
The NRF encourages its stakeholder community, including NRF’s
Business Units and National Research Facilities, to:
• Formulate detailed policies on Open Access of publications and
data from its funded research;
• Establish Open Access repositories; and
• Support public access to the repositories through web search and
retrieval according to international standards and best practice.
Sherpa Romeo
• DOAJ is an online directory that indexes
and provides access to quality open
access, peer-reviewed journals.
DoED
Beall’s list
• Potential, possible, or probable
predatory scholarly open-access
publishers
• Misleading metrics and Hijacked
journals
• Hijacked journals
http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/01/02/bealls-list-ofpredatory-publishers-2015/
Unisa IR workflow
Email pdf to
Library
Yes,
(record, but
no full-text)
Check availability
on UnisaIR
No
Submit
(Full-text or Record
only?)
Prepare: pdf format,
Review
copyright (post-print or
final published version)
Research materials
Edit metadata
Available on Unisa
IR
Pre-submission steps
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Research
Write
Submit to publisher
Peer review
Editing
Submit final manuscript
Final proof from publisher
Published in journal
What you should do …
Retain your copyright
Give Unisa
permission to make
your articles freely
available
Submit a PDF version of
peer-reviewed, post-print
versions of your articles
and published conference
papers to the UnisaIR
What the library will do …
Assess the
submission
Manage
embargoes
Provide online
access
Adhere to the
publishers
regulations
Manage and
preserve
Support and
guidance
Ansie van der Westhuizen
watkiapj@unisa.ac.za
http://uir.unisa.ac.za