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Open Access Initiatives in Croatia

Open Access Initiatives in Croatia. Jadranka Stojanovski Ruđer Bošković Institute Goran Škvarč CARNet Zagreb, Croatia. Scholarly publishing system. Research Peer review /revision/acceptance Journals Databases (especially ISI) Research money Scholarship Research.

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Open Access Initiatives in Croatia

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  1. Open Access Initiatives in Croatia Jadranka StojanovskiRuđer Bošković Institute Goran ŠkvarčCARNetZagreb, Croatia CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  2. Scholarly publishing system • Research • Peer review/revision/acceptance • Journals • Databases (especially ISI) • Research money • Scholarship • Research CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  3. New impact cycles: New research builds on existing research Impact cycle begins: Research is done Researchers write pre-refereeing “Pre-Print” Submitted to Journal Pre-Print reviewed by Peer Experts – “Peer-Review” 12-18 Months Pre-Print revised by article’s Authors Refereed “Post-Print” Accepted, Certified, Published by Journal ? Researchers can access the Post-Print if their university has a subscription to the Journal Tim Brody and Steven Harnad: Self-Archiving (2003)

  4. Some concerns • historically most high impact scholarly literature has been published in northern and western Europe and the United States • others benefit because of affinities of language or history (Australia, Canada) or efforts to participate (Japan) • many are virtually excluded from the system • control of high impact journals by major commercial publishers • surrender of control and intellectual property by scholars • high costs and continuing price increases for libraries CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  5. Access is limited to those • who have reliable and affordable information and communication technologies • affiliated with organisations which have the money and skills to provide access • who have certain level of information literacy • permitted under contracts with vendors CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  6. Pre-Print self-archived in University’s Eprint Website Post-Print published in OA journal or self-archived in University’s Eprint Website New impact cycles: Self-archivedresearch impact is greater (and faster) because access is maximized (and accelerated) Impact cycle begins: Research is done Researchers write pre-refereeing “Pre-Print” Submitted to Journal Pre-Print reviewed by Peer Experts – “Peer-Review” 12-18 Months Pre-Print revised by article’s Authors Refereed “Post-Print” Accepted, Certified, Published by Journal Researchers can access the Post-Print if their university has a subscription to the Journal New impact cycles: New research builds on existing research Tim Brody and Steven Harnad: Self-Archiving (2003)

  7. Research Impact • measures the size of a research contribution to further research (“publish or perish”) • generates further research funding • contributes to the research productivity and financial support of the researcher’s institution • advances the researcher’s career • promotes research progress Tim Brody and Steven Harnad: Self-Archiving (2003)

  8. “average of 336% more citations to online articles compared to offline articles published in the same venue” Lawrence, S. (2001) Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact Nature 411 (6837): 521. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  9. Open-Access Publishing Golden road turn existing 21.000 peer reviewed journals into open-access journals (1924 exist currently according DOAJ) find funding support for open-access publication costs ($500-$2500) motivate the authors of the annual 2,800,000 articles to publish in open-access journals instead of the existing toll-access journals motivate¸authors to refuse to sign away their intellectual property (Creative Commons) Open-Access Self-Archiving Green road motivate the authors of the annual 2,800,000 articles they publish in the existing toll-access journals to also self-archive them in their institutional open-access archives. The two open-access strategies CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  10. Open questions • publisher may get decreased income • publisher income declines and quality assurance mechanism (peer review) is in jeopardy • who maintains quality of records? • will authors continue to get recognition rewards? • who ensures preservation and continuing accessibility and usability? • infrastructure issues in developing countries CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  11. Scientific landscape in Croatia (1) • less than 0.1 percent of world population • 9000HE teaching staff/researchers • six universities with 85 faculties, art academies, colleges of higher education, university departments and university studies • five polytechnics and six independent public higher education colleges • 27 scientific institutes CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  12. Scientific landscape in Croatia (2) • 150 academic and research libraries • 230scholarly and professional journals (21.000 worldwide) • COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM (CC) • CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL (CC) • CROATICA CHEMICA ACTA (CC) • DRUŠTVENA ISTRAŽIVANJA (CC) • FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (CC) • INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF THE AESTHETICS AND SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC (CC) • STROJARSTVO (CC) CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  13. ISI Thomson SCIex • CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING QUARTERLY • MATHEMATICAL INEQUALITIES & APPLICATIONS • METALURGIJA • NEUROLOGIA CROATICA • PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM • TEKSTIL • VETERINARSKI ARHIV CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  14. Science in Croatia • financed through 2000 scientific research projects governed bythree-year contracts • 15000 publicationsannualy (in national and international journals, books, conference proceedings etc.) according Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  15. Two main directions • Organisation of information resources for scientists to support their research and their teaching activities • Organisation of information about Croatian science CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  16. Organisation of information resources • union catalogues (1992) • well organized library web sites (1994) • tematic portals – ZIND (2004) • EJOL portal for e-journals (2003) • Center for Online databases portal (1995) CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  17. Organisation of information about Croatian science • CROSBI (1997) • Who’s Who in Science in Croatia (2003) • HRČAK (2005) • promotion and implementation of OA green and golden roads in Croatia (2005) CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  18. First initiatives • HIDD - working group for OA (information specialists/librarians and scientists) – since 2003 • strategy for making all Croatian scientific production openly accessible - making it more visible in the world! CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  19. Importance of partnership • with the Ministry of Science, Eduacation and Sports • with faculty • among institutions • with corporate partners • Ovid • EBSCO • Elsevier/Scirus • internationally CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  20. Strategy for OA in Croatia • network of institutional repositories + ensuring metadata exchange with Croatian and international metadata providers (= green road) • single access point to all Croatian e-journals + converting as many journals to gold journals as possible (= golden road) CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  21. Green road: OAI repositories & CROSBI • no institutional repositories in Croatia • in some disciplines - self-archiving in international subject-based archives (arXiv, E-LIS) • possibility of self-archiving in CROSBI (~3000 full papers) • Open Archives Referral Centre - http://referalni.lss.hr/OpenArchives CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  22. “Open access in Croatia” – CARNets’ project: • promotion of the OAI (lectures, workshops, pamphlets, posters...) • support for institutional repositories • co-operation of institutions, libraries and government • add OAI functionality to CROSBI • metadata harvesting and access portal (search) • foster the exchange and reuse of metadata • CROSBI, inst. repositories, HRČAK, libraries’ OPACs, other information service providers CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  23. Golden road: HRČAK • discussions on OA often stress “author-pays” and neglect “subsidised” model of OA journals • in Croatia “subsidised” model has special importance • majority of scientific and professional journals in Croatia are subsidised by the Government • mostly non-profit journals whose publishers are learned societies • a number of them cannot even afford an online edition CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  24. ... • for such «small» journals (if they are in English) - being OA can contribute a lot to their success • HRČAK (project of SRCe & HIDD WG) • providing a tool for easy online publishing of OA journal • providing a single access point for searching and browsing • OAI compliance (ensuring greater visibility in the world) • such arrangement can be beneficial and acceptable for both - journals and users CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  25. Importance for smaller countries • there are 892.442 journal articles published in 2005 and indexed in Current Contents database • (from USA 279.095) • from Croatia -1.302 (at least one author from Croatia) • there are 15.916 items published in 2005 and indexed in CROSBI, 5.384 are journal articles • it’s important to make them more visible! CARNet User's Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 2005

  26. Ball’s 7 thesis • Open Accessis a matter of concern for the scientific community • Open Access is needed if libraries are to establish themselves as a market power in the information marketplace • Science needs a new model of scientific communication • Open Access grants everyone access to information, even those who cannot afford subscription content • Open Access is an alternative to the established publication process • Open Access is a never-ending process • Everyone’s a winner with Open Access Dr Rafael Ball, Research Centre Jülich, Central Library

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