[eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Ukraine
Iryna Kuchma
kuchma at irf.kiev.ua
Fri Jun 8 14:35:35 EEST 2007
Dear friends and colleagues,
It's great to read about your projects - thanks a lot for sharing! We also summarized our OA activities and specified our needs:
As Rostyslav Khomyk and Oleksii Vasyliev already wrote we finally managed to meet with all the people developing OA repositories in Ukraine (Institute of Software Systems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine http://eprints.isofts.kiev.ua; Zhytomyr National University http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/; Ukrainian Catholic University: http://repository.ucu.edu.ua and http://dspace.ucu.edu.ua; Centre for Humanities of Lviv National University: http://www.humanities.org.ua and http://dspace.humanities.org.ua and Informatio and National Univesity Kyiv Mohyla Academy (in progress)), specified our 5 major problems and tried to find solutions:
Problem 1: Difficulties with server design and software installation. Lack of some special fields in the software (e.g. in DSpace a field about curator for master theses, etc). Complexity of the system for ordinary professor without advanced skills (our goal is self-archiving so we want scholars archive themselves).
Solution 1: To create instructions specifying steps in installing software and to create an installation pack Institutional repository in the box. To write clear instructions for the users (self-archives).
Problem 2. Lack of understanding among professional community how authors rights in electronic world differs from the print world. What does it mean to deposit electronic copy? Why copyrights agreements in case of depositing are often replaced with licenses?
Solution 2: To develop a standard non-exclusive license for depositing a paper in OA institutional repository (IR) (between the author of the paper and the institution). To write it in cooperation with the State department for intellectual property to have wider recognition of this text.
Problem 3: Lack of qualitative indicators of informatization of the universities; for majority of the scholars computers are still typing machines and means of reading-writing e-mails. Lack of technical capacities in the universities.
Solution 3: To conduct cost-benefits analysis of having OA institutional repository in the university. To prepare FAQs and short documents for university administrators What is an OA Institutional repository? Why do university need it? How a library can create OA institutional repository in the university (policies, procedures, etc.)? - we already have this document and will widely spread it. How university department can create an OA IR? Are repositories different from depositories? What is the model self-archiving policy in the university or research institution (luckily we can now show Russian case - http://www.cemi.rssi.ru/).
Problem 4: Lack of exchange between experts from different institutions developing OA IRs.
Solution 4: Rostyslav Khomyk registered a wiki www.repository.org.ua to have everything about OA IRs in Ukraine from links to the documents. It's 2-day old and empty now but we will fill it in pretty soon. We also plan to publish leaflets, organise seminars, etc.
Problem 5: Lack of financing.
Solution 5: Possibilities to apply for a grant to the Seventh Research Framework program, financing from International Renaissance Foundation.
If you already have the documents we specified and plan to create - please share them with us.
As to the general context, since January 2007 Ukraine has a law mandating open access to publicly funded researches. It was widely supported by most of the Parliament members. And it is already the second parliamentary inquiry mandating the Cabinet of Ministers to take actions on creating favorable conditions for developing open access repositories in archives, libraries, museums, scientific and research institutions with open access condition to state funded researches. And for the second time the implementation of this law was interrupted by the political crises. Governmental institutions are still the unique donors of research and development in Ukraine. This is why a law mandating open access to publicly funded research plays a crucial role in open access initiatives. Delays with implementation of this law cause delays in the development of open access institutional repositories.
(all in Ukrainian - Decree of the Parliament of Ukraine "On Recommendations of parliamentary hearings on developing information society in Ukraine: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=3175%2D15
The Law of Ukraine On the principles of developing information society in Ukraine for 2007-20015 (Закон України "Про Основні засади розвитку інформаційного суспільства в Україні на 2007-2015 роки") at www.rada.gov.ua)
This year we started a program on OA educational materials in cooperation with Connexions (cnx.org) - a non-profit publishing project that brings textbooks and other learning materials into the Internet Age.
Connexions makes high-quality educational content available to anyone, anywhere, anytime for free on the web and at very low cost in print. The demand for Connexions open-access materials is surging; our
servers handle over 20 million hits per month representing over 600,000 visitors from 200 countries.
And there are 3 types of calls for cooperation:
AUTHORS
Connexions welcomes contributions big and small and in any language to our global repository of open knowledge. Authors can create "modules" of information - smallish, Lego block documents that communicate a
concept, a procedure, a set of questions - simply by uploading a Microsoft Word or Open Office document. Authors can also connect new and existing modules together into customized web courses, textbooks,
and curricula. All content is open-licensed under the Creative Commons "attribution" license; all tools are free and open-source.
TRANSLATORS
Connexions welcomes translations to and from Ukrainian and other languages. Translation projects are already under way in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai; many of
these materials are our most popular.
PUBLISHERS
Connexions welcomes academic and university publishers to exploit its free XML-based platform for producing and distributing academic works like textbooks, monographs, and research journals for free online and
at very low cost in print via print-on-demand. Moreover our Creative Commons "attribution" license enables publishers to develop new revenue-generating value-added services around their scholarly
content. The recently relaunched Rice University Press (ricepress.rice.edu) uses Connexions as its digital content engine to save significantly on operating costs while broadening its global
impact.
And finally I mentioned that we (International Renaissance Foundations) announced a competition for Ukrainian organisations: Open access and socially balanced intellectual property rights
Competition is implemented in cooperation with Information program of Open Society Institute, eIFL.net, Connexions Project.
Within this competition we will provide financial and expert support for:
a.. Creation and development of open access institutional repositories (in educational and research institutions)
b.. Creation of open access educational materials in cooperation with Connexions Project (www.cnx.org).
c.. Creation and development of open access journals.
a.. Seminars about open access and socially balanced intellectual property rights for the scholars, librarians, educational and scientific institutions, journalists.
b.. Competitions of students' research about open access and socially balanced intellectual property rights.
c.. Policy development on open access and socially balanced intellectual property rights:
a.. conducting research “Open access policy in Ukraine", “Economics of open access in Ukraine”, “Socially balanced intellectual property rights in Ukraine”, etc. ;
b.. harmonizing national educational policy re. Open access;
a.. legislation development to implement mandated open access to state funded research, to provide stade funding for developing open access repositories in education, research and cultural institutions;
b.. monitoring of governmental activities regarding national policy on open access and socially balanced intellectual property rights.
a.. Translation into Ukrainian of books and documents about access to knowledge, effective knowledge governance, balanced approaches to intellectual property rights (recommended titles, but the choice is not limited with them):
a.. Free Culture. How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. by Lawrence Lessig www.free-culture.cc
b.. Information Feudalism.Who Owns Knowledge Economy. by Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite http://cgkd.anu.edu.au/menus/publications.php#drahos
c.. Information Rules. A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy. By Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian http://www.inforules.com/
d.. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. By Saskia Sassen. Princeton University Press, 2006.
e.. The Wealth of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. By Yoshai Benkler. Yale University Press, 2006 : http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
Best wishes,
Iryna Kuchma
Social Capital and Academic Publications Program Manager
International Renaissance Foundation
phone: (+380) (44) 461-9500
fax: (+380) (44) 486-0166
e-mail: kuchma at irf.kiev.ua
http://www.irf.kiev.ua/programs/scaap
----- Original Message -----
From: Sander, Hannie
To: Jasper Lee Maenzanise ; Kondwani Wella ; kmatsika at nust.ac.zw
Cc: Susan Veldsman ; eifloa at eifl.net ; rima.kupryte at eifl.net
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:02 AM
Subject: RE: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
Dear Jasper, Kondwani and Kathy
Thanks for your kind wishes. I sincerely appreciate it. I'm very fortunate to be able to build on the firm foundations laid by Melissa Hageman and our eIFL team and eIFL members and family.
Jasper and Kondwani
Will share with pleasure. The paper should also be available on the IATUL website shortly after the conference.
Kathy
Well done with your presentation to your senior management. If you have their support you're halfway there!. How about sharing this with eIFL members?
We still have some very mixed feelings about OA amongst our faculties, and lobbying takes up lots of time and energy. One of the challenges here is to shift the belief that the funding matrix still is pretty much driven by publishing in 'accredited" journals. People don't always realise that many OA journals are also accredited. We've just completed our "match and place process" (matching staff from the three merging institutions against our new organisational structure, which as you can well imagine was a full time job for the first five months of this year!!) and we've fortunately managed to secure a position of Librarian: Institutional repository!
Susan, thanks for getting the discussion going.
Kind regards
Hannie
From: Jasper Lee Maenzanise [mailto:jmaenzanise at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 2007/06/06 07:53 AM
To: Kondwani Wella; Sander, Hannie
Cc: Susan Veldsman; eifloa at eifl.net; rima.kupryte at eifl.net
Subject: Re: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
Hannie
Here is to wishing you all the best in your presentation at the 28th IATUL Global Access to Science Conference to be held in Stockholmon whose focus is on OA and IRs. As noted by Kondwani Wella, it would be most appreciated if we could share your presentation afterwards.
Good luck and thanks.
Cheers
Jasper
Kondwani Wella <kwella at kcn.unima.mw> wrote:
Hannie,
Can we have the privilege of reading your paper, after you have
presented it of course.
Kondwani
Sander, Hannie wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have been following the past emails and I can only echo Susan's
> praises of the activity, enthusiasm and progress made to date.
>
> I'm leaving on Friday to present a paper (Challenging Libraries In The
> Alternative Dissemination Of African Scholarly Communication) next week
> at* *the 28th IATUL Global Access to Science Conference in Stockholm,
> where the focus will also be towards Open Access and IR's.
>
> Congratulations to you all. Keep the good work up!
>
> Kindest regards
> Hannie
>
>
>
> Hannie Sander
> Executive Director: Library and Information Centre
> University of Johannesburg
> PO Box 524
> Auckland Park
> JOHANNESBURG
> 2006
>
> email: jsander at uj.ac.za
>
> Tel +27 11 559 2169
>
> *Please note change of telephone number from 1 June 2007 to +27 11 559 2169*
>
> Fax +27 11 726 7723
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>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Susan Veldsman [mailto:susan.veldsman at eifl.net]
> *Sent:* Tue 2007/06/05 03:56 PM
> *To:* eifloa at eifl.net
> *Subject:* RE: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
>
> Dear Lidia,
>
> Thanks for the update! This is fantastic to see what progress are being
> made!
>
> Good luck, this is fantastic endeavor and beginning at the right place!
>
> KIND REGARDS
> SUSAN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lidia Chiotha [mailto:lchiotha at chanco.unima.mw]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:09 PM
> To: susan.veldsman at eifl.net
> Cc: eifloa at eifl.net
> Subject: [eifloa] Report Back:OA Activities -Malawi
>
>
> Dear Susan and all,
>
> It has been quite interesting to read of all the OA activities taking
> place in different institutions. Malawi also has taken some small steps in
> that direction:
>
> 1. The new Research Policy adopted by the University of Malawi has a
> statement on Institutional Repositories.
>
> 2. The University of Malawi Postgraduate Committee at its recent meeting,
> set up a subcommittee comprising Librarians and Teaching staff to work out
> on logistics of a Digital Repository for theses. Margaret Ngwira former
> eIFL country coordinator will see the kick off of this exercise.
>
> 3. MALICO is working in the background on Greenstone having been
> influenced by Renate's good work at University of Namibia.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lidia Chiotha
> University Central Library
> Chancellor College
> P.O. Box 280, Zomba, Malawi
>
> Phone: 265 (0) 1 524222 ext. 138
> : 265 (0) 9 333079 / 08 784889
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