Carrots and Sticks

Ferreira, Miguel; Rodrigues, Elóy; Baptista, Ana Alice; Saraiva, Ricardo

doi:10.1045/january2008-ferreira

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Section: Literature Review Institutional Repositoriesmentioning

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“…Our September 2016 population study, which yielded a participation rate of 15.4%, excluded lecturers, resulting in 86 OA Policy participants from a faculty population of 558. Of many solutions proposed to the faculty participation problem, one tactic in particular that can be effective in increasing the amount of faculty research in IRs is the adoption of strong policies at the institutional level that require deposit (Ferreira, Rodrigues, Baptista, & Saraiva, 2008;Gargouri et al, 2012;Gilbert, Kinger, & Kullman, 2011;Harnad, 2015;Nicholas, Rowlands, Watkinson, Brown, & Jamali, 2012;Swan, Gargouri, Hunt, & Harnad, 2015;Vincent-Lamarre, Boivin, Gargouri, Larivière, & Harnad, 2016;Xia et al, 2012).There is evidence that in recent years the growth rate of IRs has increased and authors are increasingly willing to contribute their research (Dubinsky, 2014), with younger researchers especially likely to contribute (Nicholas et al, 2013). Marsh (2015) found that "the population of repositories was likely to accelerate in the future" with the "strengthening of national and funder policies," the "alignment of repositories with current research information systems within universities," and "the development of metadata and open archives initiative harvesting that will improve discoverability and usage data" (p. 163).…”

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Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Lovett

Rathemacher

Boukari

et al. 2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTIONThe popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu indicates that scholars want to share their work, yet for universities with open access (OA) policies, these sites may be competing with institutional repositories (IRs) for content. This article seeks to reveal researcher practices, attitudes, and motivations around uploading their work to ResearchGate and complying with an institutional OA Policy through a study of faculty at the University of Rhode Island (URI). METHODS We conducted a population study to examine the participation by 558 full-time URI faculty members in the OA Policy and ResearchGate followed by a survey of 728 full-time URI faculty members about their participation in the two services. DISCUSSION The majority of URI faculty do not participate in the OA Policy or use ResearchGate. Authors' primary motivations for participation are sharing their work more broadly and increasing its visibility and impact. Faculty who participate in ResearchGate are more likely to participate in the OA Policy, and vice versa. The fact that the OA Policy targets the author manuscript and not the final published article constitutes a significant barrier to participation. CONCLUSION Librarians should not view academic social networks as a threat to open access. Authors' strong preference for sharing the final, published version of their articles provides support for calls to hasten the transition to a Gold OA publishing system. Misunderstandings about the OA Policy and copyright indicate a need for librarians to conduct greater education and outreach to authors about options for legally sharing articles. Received: 01/26/2017 Accepted: 06/20/2017 Correspondence: Andrée Rathemacher, 269 Library, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA, andree@uri.edu 2. Throughout the survey, faculty reported a strong aversion to sharing the author manuscript version of their articles. This was the most significant barrier to participating in the OA Policy. This finding, if generalizable, should inform current discussions among OA advocates about the respective roles going forward of Green OA achieved through depositing author manuscripts in institutional repositories and Gold OA achieved at the point of publication. RESEARCH3. Our survey revealed a range of misunderstandings about the IR, OA policies, and copyright. For example, many respondents believe that the legality of posting one's articles in both the IR and ResearchGate depends on publisher policy and the version of the article posted. In fact, permissions-based OA policies make it legal to post author manuscripts in the IR regardless of publisher policies, and many subscriptionaccess journals prohibit depositing any version of an article to commercial sites like ResearchGate. These misunderstandings indicate a need for librarians to conduct greater education and outreach to faculty around their options for legally sharing published articles. INTRODUCTIONFrom electronic journals and repositories to soci...

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Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Lovett

Rathemacher

Boukari

et al. 2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…Ferreira, Rodrigues, Baptista, and Saraiva (2008) describe efforts at the University of Minho to increase the number of faculty articles deposited to their IR including promotional efforts, value-added services such as download statistics, and the development of a policy. While the University of Minho has a large and relatively successful repository, as judged by Webometrics rankings, it is not clear whether or not this success has been a direct result of these efforts.…”

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It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository

Zhang

Boock

Wirth

2015

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INTRODUCTION Many institutions have open access (OA) policies that require faculty members to deposit their articles in an institutional repository (IR). A clear motivation is that a policy will result in increased self-archiving. The purpose of this longitudinal study is to compare the impact of a campus-wide OA policy and mediated solicitation of author manuscripts, using quantitative analysis to determine the rate of article deposits over time. METHODS Metadata for faculty articles published by authors at Oregon State University between 2011 and 2014 was produced by integrating citation metadata from a bibliographic database and the IR. Author names, affiliations, and other metadata were parsed and matched to compare rates of deposit for three separate time periods relating to different OA promotional strategies. RESULTS Direct solicitation of author manuscripts is more successful in facilitating OA than an OA policy—by number of articles deposited as well as the number of unique authors participating. Author affiliation and research areas also have an impact on faculty participation in OA. DISCUSSION Outreach to colleges and departments has had a positive effect on rate of deposit for those communities of scholars. Additionally, disciplinary practice may have more influence on its members’ participation in OA. CONCLUSION Until more federal policies require open access to articles funded by grants, or institutional policies are in place that require article deposit for promotion and tenure, policies will only be as effective as the library mediated processes that are put in place to identify and solicit articles from faculty.

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“…Several use cases have been published (Brand, 2012;Jantz & Wilson, 2008) that point to strategies proven to help drive faculty deposit and IR success at the local level. Ferreira, Rodrigues, Baptista, and Saraiva (2008), for instance, provide an extensive use case that emphasizes the need for (1) a comprehensive promotional plan that aims to communicate not directly at the target audience but "flood[s] the surrounding channels that nourish their informational needs";…”

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From Meow to ROAR: Expanding Open Access Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries

Atta

Thompson

et al. 2019

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INTRODUCTIONThe rapidly changing scholarly communication ecosystem is placing a growing premium on research data and scholarship that is openly available. It also places a growing pressure on universities and research organizations to expand their publishing infrastructures and related services. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM To embrace the change and meet local demands, University of Houston (UH) Libraries formed a cross-departmental open access implementation team in 2017 to expand our open access repository services to accommodate a broad range of research products beyond electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The result of this effort was the Cougar Research Open Access Repositories (Cougar ROAR), a rebranded and expanded portal to the UH Institutional Repository, and the UH Dataverse, which disseminates the full range of scholarly outputs generated at the University of Houston. This article describes the team's phased activities, including internal preparation, a campus pilot, rebranding, and a robust outreach program. It also details the team's specific tasks, such as building the Cougar ROAR portal, developing ROAR policies and guidelines, enhancing institutional repository functionality, conducting campus promotional activities, and piloting and scaling a campus-wide open access program. NEXT STEPS Based on the pilot project findings and the resulting recommendations, the team outlined key next steps for sustainability of the UH Libraries' open access services: continuation of the campus CV service, establishment of campus-wide OA policy, further promotion of Cougar ROAR and assessment of OA programs and services, and investment in long-term storage and preservation of scholarly output in Cougar ROAR.

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Carrots and Sticks

Cited by 38 publications

References 4 publications

Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation

It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository

From Meow to ROAR: Expanding Open Access Repository Services at the University of Houston Libraries

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