RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourage interest and participation among faculty and jump start populating the KU scholarworks repository

Mercer, Holly; Emmett, Ada

doi:10.1002/meet.14504201227

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“…No data on final PDF versions or paid (hybrid) open access options is given. One study, by Mercer & Emmett (2005), does report data using the SHERPA/RoMEO database-the same author-rights contract database that this paper employs-which does give information on these factors, but they do so by manual evaluation and therefore look only at a small sample of articles. • The version of the article: In general, publishers provide for differing access rights to pre-print versions (the article before submission to the journal), post-print version (the version of the article after peer review but before final formatting) and the final PDF of the article (the version that appears in the published journal).…”

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Understanding and Making Use of Academic Authors’ Open Access Rights

Hansen

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Authors of academic works do not take full advantage of the self-archiving rights that they retain in their publications, though research shows that many academic authors are well-aligned (at least in principle) with open access (OA) principles. This article explains how institutionally-assisted self-archiving in open access repositories can effectively take advantage of retained rights and highlights at least one method of facilitating this process through automated means. METHODS To understand the scope of author-retained rights (including the right to purchase hybrid or other open access options) at some sample universities, author-rights data through the SHERPA/RoMEO API was combined with individual article citations (from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science) for works published over a one-year period (2011) and authored by individuals affiliated with five major U.S. research universities. RESULTS Authors retain significant rights in the articles that they create. Of the 29,322 unique articles authored over the one year period at the five universities, 28.83 percent could be archived in final PDF form and 87.95 percent could be archived as the post-print version. Nearly 43.47 percent also provided authors the choice of purchasing a hybrid paid open access option. DISCUSSION A significant percentage of current published output could be archived with little or no author intervention. With prior approval through an open access policy or otherwise, article manuscripts or final PDFs can be obtained and archived by library staff, and hybrid paid-OA options could be negotiated and exploited by library administrators. CONCLUSION Although mandates, legislation, and other policy tools may be useful to promote open access, many institutions already have the ability to increase the percentage of accessible works by taking advantage of retained author rights and hybrid OA options.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Understanding and Making Use of Academic Authors’ Open Access Rights

Hansen

2012

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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“…This is important because, as will be discussed later, one of the ways communities in KU ScholarWorks become active submitters is through long-term relationship building with individual faculty members and departments. The library hopes that getting an early start in developing these relationships will pay off later (for a full description of the KU's RoMEO Green project, its methods and findings see Mercer and Emmett, 2005).…”

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A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository

Mercer

Rosenblum

Emmett

2007

OCLC Systems &Amp; Services: International Digital Library Perspectives

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of KU ScholarWorks, the University of Kansas' institutional repository, and the various strategies used to promote and populate it. Design/methodology/approach -This paper describes how KU ScholarWorks came into being, and discusses the variety of activities employed to publicize the repository and encourage faculty to deposit their work. In addition, the paper discusses some of the concerns expressed by faculty members, and some of the obstacles encountered in getting them to use the repository. The paper concludes with some observations about KU's efforts, an assessment of the success of the program to date, and suggests some next steps the program may take. Findings -The paper found that KU ScholarWorks has relied on a "self-archiving" model, which requires regular communication with faculty and long-term community building. Repository content continues to grow at a steady pace, but uptake among faculty has been slow. In the absence of mandates requiring faculty to deposit work, organizations running institutional repositories must continue to aggressively pursue a variety of strategies to promote repositories to faculty and encourage them to deposit their scholarship. Originality/value -KU's experience will help other institutions develop institutional repositories by providing examples of marketing strategies, and by promoting a greater understanding of faculty behavior and concerns with regard to institutional repositories.

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RoMEO Green at the University of Kansas: An experiment to encourage interest and participation among faculty and jump start populating the KU scholarworks repository

Cited by 2 publications

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Understanding and Making Use of Academic Authors’ Open Access Rights

Understanding and Making Use of Academic Authors’ Open Access Rights

A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository

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