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This research proposes SoVisu+, a new system for managing research data in a decentralized way, building upon the foundation laid by the CRISalid consortium, a community-driven approach to research information management. Traditional, centralized systems have issues like fragmented data, unchecked and outdated information. SoVisu+ tackles these problems by giving researchers more control over their data and fostering collaboration to build a shared knowledge graph. Researchers benefit from features like self-archiving accompaniment, AI driven helpers and real-time profile views, while institutions gain access to more reliable and comprehensive data. SoVisu+ expects to employ cutting-edge technologies like Solid Pods and Linked Data to streamline data management and improve research evaluation practices. Overall, SoVisu+ aims to create a more transparent and collaborative research ecosystem that ultimately accelerates scientific progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explored the authors self-archiving to create awareness of open access institutional repositories in universities. The study’s qualitative approach was informed by the interpretive paradigm and the case research design. The target population was all twelve (12) open access institutional repositories managers. Interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide and data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The study revealed that author self-archiving could improve awareness of open access institutional repositories. The study recommended that universities fully implement the author’s self-archiving protocol, and the university and university library should provide rigorous policies and incentives for author self-archiving.

«GOAL – Unlocking the Green Open Access Potential» (https://opengoal.ch/) ist die kollektive Bestrebung einer Gruppe von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken zur Förderung des bisher wenig beachteten Potentials von Grün Open Access in der Schweizer Publikationslandschaft. Nicht oder nur marginal im Fokus der Nationalen Open-Access-Strategie sind die Fachhochschulen und Pädagogischen Hochschulen sowie kleine landessprachliche Verlage. Zunehmend seltener anerkannt wird auch der Weg der Open-Access-Zweitveröffentlichung oder «Grün Open Access». Es scheint, als ob sich der Ball bei der Umsetzung von Open Access zunehmend im Besitz der «Read & Publish» Verträge und in der Förderung des Goldenen Weges befindet. Die «grüne Alternative» führt ein wenig wahrgenommenes Schattendasein am Rande des Spielfeldes und gilt als wenig attraktiv. Offenbar können auch die Argumente der Nachhaltigkeit und der erhöhten Sichtbarkeit nicht genügend überzeugen. Aus Sicht des Projektes GOAL eröffnet der Grüne Weg jedoch einen in der Schweiz noch wenig genutzten Handlungsspielraum, der sich jenseits der grossen Verlage oder bekannten Universitäten befindet und ein nicht zu unterschätzendes Potential hat. Das ist der Moment, in dem wir das Auge auf praxisorientierte Zeitschriften richten, welche von kleinen Verlagen, Fachgesellschaften oder öffentlichen Institutionen in den verschiedenen Landessprachen publiziert werden. Diese Zeitschriften haben bisher noch wenig Beachtung erhalten, obwohl sie eine entscheidende Rolle für Forschende an Fach- sowie Pädagogischen Hochschulen spielen. Hier ist das Spielfeld noch wenig besetzt und Open Access kann, unter Berücksichtigung der Ressourcen der Redaktionen und Hochschulen, noch aufgebaut werden. In unserem Beitrag stellen wir das Projekt vor, präsentieren die Ergebnisse von anderthalb Jahren Arbeit und stellen diese zur Diskussion.

The representation of the theme is a fundamental factor for the process of organization, access and retrieval of information, especially in digital environments such as institutional repositories. In this sense, this research aims to analyze the representation of information in the Institutional Repository of the Federal University of Alagoas, with regard to subject metadata. It is a basic, exploratory research with descriptive characteristics and a qualitative approach. The analysis will be carried out on the thematic representation of the subject metadata present in the 159 monographs deposited through selfarchiving by students of the Nursing and Social Work courses in the period from 2020 to 2022. In this preliminary analysis, 40 monographs were mapped, 20 from each course. The first analyzes identified 78 subject metadata in the Nursing monographs, in which 69 presented compliance and 9 did not comply with the subject catalog of the university's Library System, and the Social Work monographs totaled 66 subject metadata, of which 31 complied and 35 without compliance. In this sense, it is clear that the use of tools such as authorized thesauri, as well as guidance from professional librarians, contribute to the standardization and quality of subject metadata. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This mixed-method study analyzes the self-archiving behaviors and underlying motivations of researchers at an institution very recently recategorized by the Carnegie Classification system from “Doctoral– High Research Activity (R2)” to “Doctoral–Very High Research Activity (R1).” Methods: A quantitative analysis of data provided by CHORUS, a multi-institutional open access (OA) infrastructure project designed to minimize the administrative costs of complying with federal public access mandates, was followed by semi-structured qualitative interviews with researchers to determine the underlying motivations for self-archiving research papers resulting from federal grant support. Results: Fifty-one authors with federal research funding published 71 journal articles; 139 OA versions of these 71 articles were intentionally made available by researchers across nine types of platforms, including and in addition to those provided by publishers. Interviews with 11 investigators revealed motivators such as a dedication to public access to knowledge, learned behaviors in specific disciplines, and enlightened self-interest. Challenges included concern regarding confidentiality, confusion about intellectual property and funder requirements, administrative overhead, and integrity of the scholarly record. Discussion: Despite concerns and a lack of an OA mandate and other drivers more commonly present at larger, more research-intensive universities, several researchers interviewed actively engaged in self-archiving article versions, not always with clear motivations. These findings have implications for both scholarly communications and collection development services. Conclusion: These quantitative and qualitative data informed the creation of three distinct personas intended to help librarians at similar universities design services in a manner that aligns with investigator motivations.

Zweitveröffentlichungsservices sind an vielen Forschungseinrichtungen von zunehmender Bedeutung. In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst die Verbreitung der verschiedenen Dienstleistungen an Universitätsbibliotheken dargestellt und aufgezeigt, ob alle angebotenen Services über die Webseite kommuniziert werden oder ob sie nur auf Anfrage angeboten werden. Es wird außerdem die Möglichkeit einer Kategorisierung dieser Services betrachtet und Ausbaustufen zur Einordnung vorgeschlagen. Abschließend wird darauf eingegangen, inwiefern verschiedene Faktoren, wie beispielsweise die Größe der Universität, einen Einfluss auf den Ausbau des Serviceangebots haben.

(1) Background: The 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative recommended the self-archiving of scientific articles in open repositories, which has been described as the “green road” to open access. Twenty years later, only one part of the researchers deposits their publications in open repositories; moreover, one part of the repositories’ content is not based on self-archived deposits but on mediated nonfaculty contributions. The purpose of the paper is to provide more empirical evidence on this situation and to assess the impact on the future of the green road. (2) Methods: We analyzed the contributions to the French national HAL repository from more than 1000 laboratories affiliated with the ten most important French research universities, with a focus on 2020, representing 14,023 contributor accounts and 164,070 deposits. (3) Results: We identified seven different types of contributor accounts, including deposits from nonfaculty staff and import flows from other platforms. Mediated nonfaculty contributions (deposits by libraries, import of bibliographic records, migration from other platforms, etc.) account for at least 48% of the 2020 deposits. We also identified differences between institutions and disciplines. (4) Conclusions: Our empirical results reveal a transformation of open repositories from self-archiving and direct scientific communication towards research information management. Repositories like HAL are somewhere in the middle of the process. The paper describes data quality as the main issue and major challenge of this transformation.

Purpose: Low understanding and comprehension of copyright compliance have been established in the body of literature. However, there is no study to indicate the understanding of Nigerian scholars on copyright compliance in self-archiving. This study explored copyright compliance of scholarly authors in self-archiving using the perspectives of Nigerian librarians. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopts a qualitative approach, using the semistructured interviews to collect data from a total of twenty-one (21) participants. The interview sessions were carried out using the Zoom application, and the interview transcript was analysed using thematic analysis. Findings: Findings showed that most of the scholarly authors view self-archiving platforms as media for sharing and distributing scholarly works. Results showed that while many of the librarians complied with copyright in self-archiving, there are some that still flout copyright agreement with publishers. Results show that majority of the librarians do not have knowledge of the copyright policies of the journal outlets where they published. Originality: This study is novel as it provides librarians' knowledge and regard for copyright compliance in self-archiving of scholarly works. It presents the understanding of Nigerian librarians on the appropriate copyright practices in complying with the sharing of published academic works. Research limitations/Implications: The study will provide the necessary guide on how to address ever-present issue of copyright compliance between authors and publishers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: to determine differences in openness and sharing of scientific papers. Methods: We have analysed scientific papers from the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) from University of Rijeka (Croatia) in 4 fields (2017–2019) on a sample of 210 papers. The SciMago Journal Rank (SJR) quartiles were used as a metric. We have checked the presence of the full text in open access in 3 types of repositories (Repository UNIRI-Dabar, ArXiv, CROSBI) and on social academic network ResearchGate. Tendency of self-archiving and sharing with regard to the field of science was investigated. Results: Scientists in the field of natural sciences (N=55, 78.6%), and biomedicine and health (N = 49, 70%) publish more (P

While open access (OA) is growing, many publications remain behind a paywall. This limits the impact of research and entrenches global inequalities by restricting access to knowledge to those that can afford it. Many journal policies allow researchers to make a version of their publication openly accessible through self-archiving in a repository, sometimes after an embargo period (green OA). Unpaywall and Shareyourpaper are open tools that help users find OA articles and support authors to legally self-archive their papers, respectively. This study leveraged these tools to assess the potential of green OA to increase discoverability in a cohort of clinical trial results publications from German university medical centers. Of the 1897 publications in this cohort, 46% (n = 871/1897, 95% confidence interval (CI) 44% to 48%) were neither openly accessible via a journal or a repository. Of these, 85% (n = 736/871, 95% CI 82% to 87%) had a permission to self-archive the accepted or published version in an institutional repository. Thus, most of the closed-access clinical trial results in this cohort could be made openly accessible in a repository, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. In addition to providing further evidence of the unrealized potential of green OA, this study demonstrates the use of open tools to obtain actionable information on self-archiving at scale and empowers efforts to increase science discoverability.

Regardless of multiple efforts carried out across many countries to disseminate the ideas and the practice of open science, most scholars in the early 2020s do not self-archive their research articles and do not publish research papers in preprint form. Having received no education and training on open science, researchers are often puzzled on what to do, in practice, to start reaping the benefits of open science. This study offers a succinct vademecum on how to benefit from the open science approach to scholarly communication, no matter whether in natural or in humanistic and social sciences.

Kata Krasznahorkai`s article.

Daniel Grúň`s article.

Self-archiving offers opportunities for authors to more broadly disseminate their work—both in pre-print form before its submission to a journal and in post-print form after its acceptance and publication in a journal. This editorial provides authors with guidance in navigating the rapidly changing options for self-archiving and affirms that the Journal of the Medical Library Association encourages authors to self-archive their work to boost its reach and impact.

This paper examines issues relating to the perceptions and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories. Using a survey research design, we collected data from academics and other researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) at a university in Australia. We looked at factors influencing choice of publishers and journal outlets, as well as the use of social media and nontraditional channels for scholarly communication. We used an online questionnaire to collect data and used descriptive statistics to analyse the data. Our findings suggest that researchers are highly influenced by traditional measures of quality, such as journal impact factor, and are less concerned with making their work more findable and promoting it through social media. This highlights a disconnect between researchers’ desired outcomes and the efforts that they put in toward the same. Our findings also suggest that institutional policies have the potential to increase OA awareness and adoption. This study contributes to the growing literature on scholarly communication by offering evidence from the HASS field, where limited studies have been conducted. Based on the findings, we recommend that academic librarians engage with faculty through outreach and workshops to change perceptions of OA and the institutional repository.

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To answer the question of the paper's title, we looked at the tables of contents from two recent issues of 33 economics journals and attempted to find a freely available online version of each article. We found that about 90 percent of articles in the most-cited economics journals and about 50 percent of articles in less-cited journals are available. We conduct a similar exercise for political science and find that only about 30 percent of the articles are freely available. The paper reports a regression analysis of the effects of author and article characteristics on likelihood of posing and it discusses the implications of self-archiving for the pricing of subscription-based academic journals.

Background: The concept of institutional repositories (IRs) has gained traction across the globe; Zimbabwe’s public universities have established IRs to capture, store, archive and widely disseminate their institutional intellectual capital. However, research output from the repositories remains obscure, hence the motivation to explore the use of IRs in the universities to ascertain if they are getting a return on their investment in IR technologies. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to establish the range of items contained in the repositories; establish the growth of the repositories and determine the software platforms being used. Method: A mixed methods approach was used, with methodological triangulation. Study participants included eight public universities, library directors, assistant or IR librarians; complete enumeration was done. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and bibliometric analysis of IRs, policy documents, Directory of Open Access Repositories and Registry of Open Access Repositories. Qualitative data were analysed thematically; Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was adopted to analyse quantitative data and generate tables. Results: The IRs largely contain peer-reviewed content, while the DSpace software is popularly used. Most of the repositories are searchable on the Internet. The biggest repository has acquired 2520 items in 10 years, while the smallest one has 46 items in 7 years. The population of the IRs is slow because of various challenges. Conclusion: The repositories have not been successful because populating them is a challenge. This could partly be because of libraries being too selective about content going into the IRs. Adopting the DSpace software by the universities points to long-term preservation plans for their intellectual output stored in the repositories for posterity.

Der Artikel stellt den mithilfe von OpenRefine teilautomatisierten Workflow des Zweitveröffentlichungsservices der Technischen Universität Berlin vor: Es werden Hintergründe und Abwägungen, die einzelnen Schritte im Workflow und Möglichkeiten zur Nachnutzung der erarbeiteten Materialien beschrieben und diskutiert.

Background: The concept of institutional repositories (IRs) has gained traction across the globe; Zimbabwe's public universities have established IRs to capture, store, archive and widely disseminate their institutional intellectual capital. However, research output from the repositories remains obscure, hence the motivation to explore the use of IRs in the universities to ascertain if they are getting a return on their investment in IR technologies. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to establish the range of items contained in the repositories; establish the growth of the repositories and determine the software platforms being used. Method: A mixed methods approach was used, with methodological triangulation. Study participants included eight public universities, library directors, assistant or IR librarians; complete enumeration was done. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and bibliometric analysis of IRs, policy documents, Directory of Open Access Repositories and Registry of Open Access Repositories. Qualitative data were analysed thematically; Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was adopted to analyse quantitative data and generate tables. Results: The IRs largely contain peer-reviewed content, while the DSpace software is popularly used. Most of the repositories are searchable on the Internet. The biggest repository has acquired 2520 items in 10 years, while the smallest one has 46 items in 7 years. The population of the IRs is slow because of various challenges. Conclusion: The repositories have not been successful because populating them is a challenge. This could partly be because of libraries being too selective about content going into the IRs. Adopting the DSpace software by the universities points to long-term preservation plans for their intellectual output stored in the repositories for posterity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many research organization have been developing institutional repositories (IRs) to increase their researches impact, but in Indonesia there is only one research organization’s IR i.e. Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia/LIPI) Institutional Repository. Therefore, the study of this IRs is very important to encourage research organizations to develop their IRs. This study analyzed the quality and self-archiving facilities of LIPI and world best IRs website based on Webometrics ranking. The method used web analysis on content, features and policies. The result showed that best quality IRs has a mandatory regulations to deposit researcher’s scientific work as well as a clear policy on the type of content, copyrights, and access. These IRs also provide informative features and services to supporting researcher’s self-archiving as well as facilitating public to access the web.

Research funders around the world have implemented open access policies that require funded research to be made open access, usually by self-archiving, within 12 months of publication. Elsevier is unique among major science publishers because it produces several journals with non-compliant self-archiving embargoes of more than 12 months. We used Elsevier’s Scopus database to study the rate at which Australian and Canadian neuroscientists publish in Elsevier’s non-compliant (embargoes > 12 months) and compliant journals (embargoes ≤ 12 months). We also examined publications in immediate open access neuroscience journals that had the DOAJ Seal and neuroscience publications in open access mega-journals. We found that the implementation of Australian and Canadian funder open access policies in 2012/2013 and 2015 did not reduce the number of publications in non-compliant journals. Instead, scientific output in all publication types increased with the greatest growth in immediate open access journals. This data suggests that funder open access policies that are similar to the Australian and Canadian policies are likely to have little effect beyond an association with a general cultural trend towards open access.

Self-archiving is the latest methodes of publishing and dessiminating scientific researches via the web, and is carried out in digital repositories or researchers’ sites (personal, institutional). Thus, the study aims at highlighting the professors’contribution at the University of Constantine 02, Abdelhamid Mehri in enriching the personal pages available via the web with their scientific researches. Therefore, the study is applied to a sample of 114 university professors belong to all the faculties and institutes at the University of Constantine 02. The questionnaire’s results reveal that most of those professors do not have personal pages available via the web, even those who own pages refrain from self-archiving their researches because they do not have time due to the teaching charges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study investigates Library and Information Science (LIS) journals that published research articles between 2003 and 2013, which were about open access (OA) and were indexed in LIS databases. The purpose was to investigate the journals' OA policies, ascertain the degree to which these policies facilitate OA to publications, and investigate whether such texts are also available as OA. The results show that literature growth in the domain has been significant, with a total of 1,402 articles produced during the eleven years under study. The OA policies of the fifty-six journals that published the highest number of articles were analysed. The results show that most articles (404; 41%) were published in hybrid journals, whereas 272 (29.7%) appeared in OA journals. Some 143 (53%) of the articles published in hybrid journals were available as green OA copies. In total, 602 (66%) of all the articles published were available as OA. The results show that the adoption of OA for research articles on that very subject is somewhat higher than in other fields. The study calls on LIS professionals to be conversant with the OA policies of the various journals that may publish their research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first multidisciplinary institutional repository in the Republic of Serbia was established at the University of Belgrade in 2011. Support and control of its functioning were entrusted to the University Library Svetozar Markovic, a coordinator of the Tempus Project New Library Services at the Western Balkan Universities, within which, besides this one, five more repositories in the region were established. The program support of all the repositories is PHAIDRA, the system created at the University of Vienna based on the Fedora open source software. This paper offers a review of the system functionality and the ways of its usage at the universities. Currently, the universities and their central and branch libraries are in charge for the content of the repository, while self-archiving is much less present. The largest part of the content includes doctoral dissertations, through the Etheses submission system, as well as master theses which are being archived at some faculty libraries. Besides continuous technical upgrade and improvement, the complete system development requires its acceptance by professors and associates of the university, to whom it is primarily intended as a tool in the educational process and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to review various aspects of the open access divide regarding the difference between those academics who support free sharing of data and scholarly output and those academics who do not. It provides a structured description by adopting the Ws doctrines emphasizing such questions as who, what, when, where and why for information-gathering. Using measurable variables to define a common expression of the open access divide, this study collects aggregated data from existing open access as well as non-open access publications including journal articles and extensive reports. The definition of the open access divide is integrated into the discussion of scholarship on a larger scale.

The article investigated the state of development of specific digital libraries – institutional repositories. In the article described the features of their use in scientific research work of the students. This research contains an interview. It identified the major trends of use e-information in the studying and scientific work.

INTRODUCTION Faculty contribution to the institutional repository is a major limiting factor in the successful provision of open access to scholarship, and thus to the advancement of research productivity and progress. Many have alluded to outreach messages through studies examining faculty concerns that underlie their reluctance to contribute, but specific open access messages demonstrated to resonate most with faculty have not been discussed with sufficient granularity. Indeed, many faculty benefits and concerns are likely either unknown to the faculty themselves, or unspoken, so the literature’s record of faculty benefits and perceptions of open access remains incomplete at best. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM At Rutgers University, we have developed a targeted message that both addresses these unspoken/unknown concerns and benefits and speaks to the promise and inevitability of open access in a changing scholarly communication landscape. This paper details that message and its rationale, based on a critical review of the literature currently informing outreach programs, in order to provoke further discussion of specific outreach messages and the principles underlying them. NEXT STEPS A robust scholarly communication organization, open access policy advisory board, expanded outreach, and sustained momentum will be critical to ensuring success with measurable outcomes. Metrics used to evaluate both OA policy implementation efforts and institutional repositories should be reevaluated in light of the governing objectives of open access outreach efforts and tools. It is hoped that a reassessment of the message and the metrics will better align both with the true promise and prerequisites of open access.

Purpose: This research is devoted to find out the level of self-archival pattern among Iranian researchers with high rate of publications, based upon the ISI citation indices in the scopes of science and social sciences. Methodology: This research is a descriptive survey based on observation. The necessary data was obtained through observing the websites of the 80 Iranian researchers with highest number of publications, in four fields of science (chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer sciences and information systems) and four fields of social sciences (social sciences, economics, psychology, and management). Excel software was utilized for data analysis. Findings: According to results of the research, the Iranian researchers with high number of publications are rarely familiar with the concept of self-archival pattern, such that among the four fields of science, the researchers with highest number of publications in mathematics had the highest level of self-archiving (3.25%) during their research. Furthermore, the study revealed that the researchers with highest number of publications in social sciences took no measures for self-archiving. Besides, the ratio of possible self-archiving to the real self-archiving is remarkable in all the mentioned fields. The highest level of possible self-archiving among the science fields related to biology, while the lowest level of it pertained to computer sciences and information systems; however, the least difference between the possible self-archiving and the real self-archiving was observed in computer sciences and information systems. Moreover, the highest level of possible self-archiving among the science fields corresponded to economics. Originality/Value: Though self-archiving has been among the most effective approaches of information dissemination, it seems that this concept has not been considerably employed by Iranian researchers with high number of publications. The results of this study provide an opportunity for researchers to get acquainted with this concept as well as the status of self-archiving in the mentioned fields and give new insights for making the scientific publications accessible.

Provides an overview of Subject Repositories (SRs) throughout the World in response to the open access movement (OAM). It mainly highlights the current trends of repository development in Library and Information Science (LIS) field. This paper covers all repositories in LIS field as registered in OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repository) database. The main objective of the paper is to select a set of parameters for evaluation of LIS repositories with other disciplinary repositories taking into consideration global recommendations and best practice guidelines. The paper also shows the growth of selected LIS repositories in terms of volume and number of objects, contents type, software pattern, subjects coverage etc. Lastly points out lacunas of LIS repositories in compare to other disciplinary repositories as well as recommends possible directions which can make the repository sustainable and will change the culture of information exchange pattern in the social science disciplines as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]