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The institutional/disciplinarydivide, a barrier to open
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Danny [email protected]
Open Access CollectionsBrisbane 14 February 2008
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auWhat is a repository?
• This talk is about Institutional Repositories
• Digital repositories are "usually considered tomean a place where one deposits (hencerepository) born-digital objects such as peer-reviewed research manuscripts for the purposeof providing open access.”
• Arthur Sale - http://eprints.comp.utas.edu.au:81/archive/00000222/
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auRepositories in Australia
• Of 38 Australian universities - 22 have repositories• Five have < 1000 entries• Thirteen have 1000 -5000 entries• Four left:
Adelaide University >14,000Qld University of Technology > 9000 itemsGriffith University > 13,000 itemsSwinburne University of Tech > 6000 items
Ref: OpenDOAR - http://www.opendoar.org/ and privatecorrespondence
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auConvincing people to use
repositories
• In the past -• ‘Build it and they will come’
• Currently -• ‘If only they understood’
• Future -• ‘How does this fit with current practice?’
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• A scientist working in a laboratorywith high tech equipment
• A historian whose research is textbased
• Are these the only differences in theway they work?
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auResearch design
• 43 interviews at UNSW & ANU• October 2006 - April 2007
Chemists Sociologists Computer Scientists
• Interviews analysed using GroundedTheory
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auResearch Question
• What are the barriers to the uptake ofOpen Access publication options inAustralia?
• Sub-questions explored here: How do you keep up with the literature? Why do you publish?
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auDisciplinary Differences
• Publication patterns are just thetip of the iceberg when itcomes to the differences indisciplines.
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auInformation seeking
• Undirected searching - Is like navigating a maze
Directed searching -Is like following a map
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auKeeping up
• Chemists - Systematic reading
• Computer Scientists - Specific conferences
• Sociologists - Serendipity
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auDirected searching
• Chemists - use databases, lessgeneral searches
• Computer Scientists - almostexclusively use Google
• Sociologists - snowball (a mixture oftext and paper)
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auSub-disciplines are very
small
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auColleagues are scattered
• Those 10 people are unlikely to workin the same building, institution oreven country as each other
• Undergraduate courses are partly thereason
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auMarketing 101
• What is your repository for?
• This will tell you what ‘message’ youare trying to sell
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auInstitutional/disciplinary
divide
• Institution: Promotional reporting
• Government: Grant applications
• Community: International reputation
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auInstitutional/disciplinary
divide• “there is a tendency – which a proper
attention to disciplinary cultures can helpto check – for administrators to lay downuniform specifications to be observedacross the whole range of departments,even where these are clearlyinappropriate”
• T. Becher (1994) ‘The Significance of DisciplinaryDifferences’, Studies in Higher Education, 19, 151-161
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auInstitutional/disciplinary
divide• “there is a tendency – which a proper
attention to disciplinary cultures can helpto check – for administrators to lay downuniform specifications to be observedacross the whole range of departments,even where these are clearlyinappropriate”
• T. Becher (1994) ‘The Significance of DisciplinaryDifferences’, Studies in Higher Education, 19, 151-161
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auHow I view my research
communities
Economics
Sociology
Science
communication
CopyrightLaw
BibliometricsInformation Management
My research
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How the ANU views me
Economics
Sociology
Science
communication
CopyrightLaw
BibliometricsInformation Management
My research
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auMarketing 102
• Innovations (repositories) are more likely tobe adopted if they are perceived to have:
relative advantage (to status quo) Compatibility (to status quo) trialability observability less complexity .
• Everett Rogers (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, NY,The Free Press
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auLoyalty
• Academics have a greater loyalty totheir research ‘community’ than theydo to their institution.
• Invisible colleges vs institutions
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auCase Study - Economists
• RePEC - Research Papers in Economics- http://RePEc.org
• IDEAS - Internet Documents inEconomics Access Service –http://ideas.RePEc.org/
• QUT ePrints
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auWork out your message!
• Most institutional repositories exist toserve institutional and funding bodies
• Perhaps it is up to the institution NOTthe individual to populate it?
• If it is about open access - chooseyour targets
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auFurther discussion
• Please feel free to contact me:• [email protected]
• http://cpas.anu.edu.au/researchprojects/_danny_kingsley.php