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- The Liège ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but inked to assessment processes
- The Liège ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but inked to assessment processes
- Open Access: A Scholarly Revolution
- Entwicklung einer Analysemethode für Institutional Repositories unter Verwendung von Nutzungsdaten
| The Liège ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but inked to assessment processes Posted: 15 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST The decision to build an institutional repository at the University of Liège was taken in 2005. It took 3 years to prepare for a faultless start in November 2008. A strong communication campaign conveyed the Open Access concept to the ULg research community. A name was coined to personalise the concept : ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography, http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/), suggesting an improved worldwide audience. A special effort in internal communication was devoted to acceptance of the mandate. It appeared essential to make it plain that ORBi would offer an unprecedented increase in readership, but that it would only be valuable if all ULg members would abide by the new rules. Any mandate needs some coercitive persuasion. Rather than resting on advocacy, we linked internal assessment to the scientific production stored in ORBi. Those applying for promotion have no choice but to file all their production in full text. This created waves of progression. Since then, evidence for a much increased readership (about twice, http://opcit.eprints.org/) has transformed the early participants in strong advocates of the repository. 68,000 items have been filed, 41,000 (60,2%) with full text (only mandatory for documents published later that 2002). According to ROAR (http://roar.eprints.org ), out of 1,568 IRs, ORBi comes 27th for the number of references, 15th for « high activity level » and 1st for « medium activity level » (number of days with 10-99 deposits/day). ORBi is now considered a success by almost all ULg members. Its advantages to individual authors have become a better incentive than the mandate itself. |
| The Liège ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but inked to assessment processes Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:45 AM PST ORBi, University of Liege, (08 Nov 2011) Presentation, Berlin 9 Pre-conference on Open Access policy development Workshop, Washington, DC. Abstract: The decision to build an institutional repository at the University of Liège was taken in 2005. It took 3 years to prepare for a faultless start in November 2008. A strong communication campaign conveyed the Open Access concept to the ULg research community. A name was coined to personalise the concept : ORBi (Open Repository and Bibliography, http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/), suggesting an improved worldwide audience. A special effort in internal communication was devoted to acceptance of the mandate. It appeared essential to make it plain that ORBi would offer an unprecedented increase in readership, but that it would only be valuable if all ULg members would abide by the new rules. Any mandate needs some coercitive persuasion. Rather than resting on advocacy, we linked internal assessment to the scientific production stored in ORBi. Those applying for promotion have no choice but to file all their production in full text. This created waves of progression. Since then, evidence for a much increased readership (about twice, http://opcit.eprints.org/) has transformed the early participants in strong advocates of the repository. 68,000 items have been filed, 41,000 (60,2%) with full text (only mandatory for documents published later that 2002). According to ROAR (http://roar.eprints.org ), out of 1,568 IRs, ORBi comes 27th for the number of references, 15th for « high activity level » and 1st for « medium activity level » (number of days with 10-99 deposits/day). ORBi is now considered a success by almost all ULg members. Its advantages to individual authors have become a better incentive than the mandate itself. |
| Open Access: A Scholarly Revolution Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:36 AM PST massagetherapy.com Undated, originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine, May/June 2011. Excerpts: Academic journals have two functions: to disseminate new knowledge and to uphold scholarly standards. The rub is, as you may have discovered in searching for research on massage, dissemination has been limited, even when the public's tax dollars fund the research. .. Massage therapy research is published in any number of journals--from those specializing in psychology, nursing, or physical medicine to those specializing in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There also are journals on cancer care, on sports injuries, on arthritis--all of interest to massage therapists. To obtain news from basic scientists on the mechanisms of massage, we also need access to journals on biology, chemistry, and neuroscience. Yet, there might be one article in 100 or even one in 1,000 that applies to massage and addresses the question that prompted the search in the first place. It is not cost-effective or time-efficient for us to subscribe to scholarly print journals, except the ones most directed to our professions. .. The OA movement is making life a bit easier for us massage therapists to get our hands on information that can feed our minds and improve our practices. |
| Entwicklung einer Analysemethode für Institutional Repositories unter Verwendung von Nutzungsdaten Posted: 15 Nov 2011 01:23 AM PST edoc-Server der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, (31 Oct 2011) Development of an analytical method for Institutional Repositories using usage data. From the English abstract: Download data are the subject of scientific investigations, in which the concept of the Citation Impact is applied to the rate of use of a publication and the so-called Download Impact is formed. Analyzed with nonparametric methods, download data give information about the visibility of electronic publications on the Internet. These methods form the core of NoRA (Non-parametric Repository Analysis). The analytical method NoRA was successfully applied to data from Institutional Repositories of four universities. In each case, groups of publications were identified that differed significantly in their usage. Similarities in the results reveal factors that influence the usage data, which have not been taken into account previously. The presented results imply further applications of NoRA but also raise doubts about the value of download data of single publications. |
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