Abstract:It is now widely accepted that there are two routes to open access (OA): OA repositories and OA journals. It is often assumed these are distinct alternative parallel tracks. However, it has recently become clear that there is potential for repositories and journals to interact with each other on an ongoing basis and between them to form a coherent OA scholarly communication system. This paper puts forward three possible models of interaction between repositories and journals; services such as arXiv and PubMed … Show more
“…It is important initially to establish some definitions of key concepts, particularly open access and repositories , because these form the basis of criteria for inclusion (and exclusion) in this study. Open access may be defined as where digital content is fully, freely, immediately, and permanently available and can be viewed and reused with minimal restrictions (adapted from Pinfield, , p. 166; with the explication that follows also adapted from the same source). The digital content referred to in the definition may take a number of different forms, including text, data, and rich media (such as video).…”
Section: Definitionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The definition of repository used here follows Pinfield ():“A repository may be defined as a set of systems and services that facilitates the ingest, storage, management, retrieval, display, and reuse of digital objects. Repositories may be set up by institutions, subject communities, research funders, or other groups.…”
This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It shows that initial repository development was focused on North America, Western Europe and Australasia, particularly the USA, UK, Germany and Australia. Soon after, Japan increased its repository numbers. Since 2010, other geographical areas and countries have seen repository growth, including East Asia (especially Taiwan), South America (especially Brazil) and Eastern Europe (especially Poland). During the whole period, countries such as France, Italy and Spain have maintained steady growth, whereas countries such as China and Russia have experienced relatively low levels of growth. Globally, repositories are predominantly institutional, multidisciplinary and English-language-based. They typically use opensource OAI-compliant repository software but remain immature in terms of explicit licensing arrangements. Whilst the size of repositories is difficult to assess accurately, the available data indicate that a small number of large repositories and a large number of small repositories make up the repository landscape. These trends and characteristics are analyzed using Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) building on previous studies. IDT is shown to provide a useful explanatory framework for understanding repository adoption at various levels: global, national, organizational and individual. Major factors affecting both the initial development of repositories and their take up by users are identified, including IT infrastructure, language, cultural factors, policy initiatives, awareness-raising activity and usage mandates. It is argued that mandates in particular are likely to play a crucial role in determining future repository development.2
“…It is important initially to establish some definitions of key concepts, particularly open access and repositories , because these form the basis of criteria for inclusion (and exclusion) in this study. Open access may be defined as where digital content is fully, freely, immediately, and permanently available and can be viewed and reused with minimal restrictions (adapted from Pinfield, , p. 166; with the explication that follows also adapted from the same source). The digital content referred to in the definition may take a number of different forms, including text, data, and rich media (such as video).…”
Section: Definitionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The definition of repository used here follows Pinfield ():“A repository may be defined as a set of systems and services that facilitates the ingest, storage, management, retrieval, display, and reuse of digital objects. Repositories may be set up by institutions, subject communities, research funders, or other groups.…”
This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It shows that initial repository development was focused on North America, Western Europe and Australasia, particularly the USA, UK, Germany and Australia. Soon after, Japan increased its repository numbers. Since 2010, other geographical areas and countries have seen repository growth, including East Asia (especially Taiwan), South America (especially Brazil) and Eastern Europe (especially Poland). During the whole period, countries such as France, Italy and Spain have maintained steady growth, whereas countries such as China and Russia have experienced relatively low levels of growth. Globally, repositories are predominantly institutional, multidisciplinary and English-language-based. They typically use opensource OAI-compliant repository software but remain immature in terms of explicit licensing arrangements. Whilst the size of repositories is difficult to assess accurately, the available data indicate that a small number of large repositories and a large number of small repositories make up the repository landscape. These trends and characteristics are analyzed using Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) building on previous studies. IDT is shown to provide a useful explanatory framework for understanding repository adoption at various levels: global, national, organizational and individual. Major factors affecting both the initial development of repositories and their take up by users are identified, including IT infrastructure, language, cultural factors, policy initiatives, awareness-raising activity and usage mandates. It is argued that mandates in particular are likely to play a crucial role in determining future repository development.2
“…A number of models of OA are emerging in practice which involve a combination of journals and repositories supported by various business and funding models. 24 The increasingly successful OA scholarly communication system developed to support biomedical research is then not sustained merely by APCs: a signifi cant level of ongoing investment by biomedical research funders also goes into the maintenance of the large-scale biomedical repositories. The precise confi guration of systems and processes in this and other disciplines, and the impact they will have on sustainable scholarly communication practices in the long term remains to be seen.…”
“…In most of the current successful OA initiatives, both journals and repositories play a role at the same time. 18 For example, PubMed Central is an OA repository which houses papers originally submitted to journals, most of which charge APCs. In a very different but no less successful OA model, the arXiv e-print server for highenergy physics still relies on journals for peer review and other services, but improves the speed of circulation of research results through selfarchiving in an OA repository.…”
Section: Stephen Pinfield University Of Sheffi Eldmentioning
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