zanele mathe on open access and open data at cput
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Key note at the 3rd Teaching and Learning with Technology Day at CPUTTRANSCRIPT
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Open Access, data and CPUT’s Digital Knowledge
Zanele Mathe
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Contents
- Open Access
- Publisher copyright policies
- Open data
- Where we are as CPUT.
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What Open Access (OA) is…
-Free, online copies of peer-reviewed literature;
-in most cases there are no licensing restrictions on their use by
readers and
-they can therefore be used freely for research, teaching and other
purposes. (Jisc: 2005)
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What OA is not…..
- self-publishing, nor a way to bypass peer-review and publication, nor a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. (Jisc: 2005)
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Benefits of Open Access..
Increase visibility of scholarly publication,
Early sharing and debating of results with colleagues
Encourages collaborative research
Attract foreign and donor investment in South African
research.
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How OA is delivered?
Gold open access
Green open access
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Gold Open access
- Publish on open access journals
- can be provided by traditional publishers or open access publishers (SCieLo)SA
- CPUT 2012 research output in accredited journals = 211
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Green open access
- Self-archiving
- Ensure long-term preservation
- author can check the Publisher Copyright Policies and Self-Archiving list
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Some South Africa’s OA initiatives…..
- National platform for open access through free-online journals, e.g. The
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO SA )
- DST Workshop on National Access to research data : SA Perspective
(2007)
- Intellectual Property Rights Acts for Publicly Funded Research (2008)
- Engagement in CODATA and hosting of 22nd CODATA Conference in
Stellenbosch (2010)
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Closing the open data gap.
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Intent:
Make data that underpins a Publication concurrently available on a database/ institutional repository
Benita Epstein Cartoons
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Why open access to data?
- Allow scrutiny
- Replication of experiments
- Identification of errors
- For theories to be accepted or refined
- Re-use data for further discoveries
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Four Fundamental requirements for open data
Data must be :
- Accessible
- Intelligible
- Assessable
- Usable
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How can these requirements be achieved.
- Research data management (RDM) as a strategic component
- Aligning RDM to institutional goals e.g. RTI blueprint; DRUSSA initiative; etc
- development of policy, processes and robust infrastructure that will foster management of research data through its lifecycle
- Ensure compliance to legal frameworks influencing the practice of managing research data
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Where are we at CPUT?
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CPUT’s Policy development….
Open access policy & Research data management policy.
Chair:
Prof. Shaun Pather
Participants:
Library, Assistant Deans (Research) from all faculties,
CPGS, Centre for e-learning, Institutional Ethics Review
Board, Fundani, CTS, Records & Archives,
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Infrastructure for RDM
- Participating on the eResearch – Infrastructure and Communication (eRIC) initiative
- Led by Technische Universität Munchem
- meant to develop a service infrastructure aimed at comprehensively supporting the whole life cycle of research at a university
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Infrastructure for RDM….eRic partners:
- TUM – University Library
- University of the Armed Forces Munich – Chair for Material Management and Distribution
- TUM – Chair for Architecture Informatics
- University of the Armed Forces Munich Library
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries
- German National Library of Science and Technology
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Processes….
- Survey to be conducted
- Focus: data management practices across faculties
- Findings will inform the development of to Systems requirements specification
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Processes…
- Library working with Research Directorate and Info.Ed (RIMS) project Manager
Intent:- Ensure interoperability between RIMS &
Digital Knowledge- Streamline submission process – cut
duplication- Preservation of full-text content while its
ensuring free access
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Open Access Declaration…
- University's Signing of the Berlin Declaration to Open Access in the Sciences and Humanities
- Planned for 2014 during Open Access week Intent:commit the University in supporting the open access principles and striving towards achieving openness in publicly funded research.
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Thank You!
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References.Academy of Science of South Africa. 2006. Report on a strategic approach to research publishing in South Africa. Pretoria: ASSAF.
Gruss, Peter 2003. Berlin declaration on open access to knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. Berlin: WordPress MU. [Online] http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/ 11/10/2013.
Harnad, S. 2005. Open Access: to what? 8th International Symposium on electronic Theses & Dissertations, 28-30 September 2005, Sydney, viewed 22 December 2005, http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html
InterAcademy Council. 2012. Responsible conduct in the Global Research Enterprise: a policy report. Amsterdam: IAP.
JISC. 2005. Open access, view 22 December 2005. http://www.jisc.ac.ul/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess>
Lucier, R.E 1990. Knowledge management: refining roles in scientific communication, EDUCOM Review, Fall 1990.
Swan, A. 2012. Policy guidelines for development and promotion of open access. Paris: UNESCO.