This document discusses open access and digital repositories. It provides information on different types of open access, including gold and green open access. It summarizes growth in open access repositories and benefits for researchers, including increased visibility and impact. The document then discusses Iowa State University's digital repository, including contributions to date, readership statistics, and how researchers and departments can contribute works.

1. Library
Open Access and Digital
Repositories
Lorrie Pellack and Harrison W. Inefuku
Library Liaison Meetings
November 13 –14, 2012

2. Image from: Fran Jurga’s Hoof Blog, November 7, 2012 post on Open Access : http://www.hoofblog.com/
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3. Based on data from Directory of Open Access Journals
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4. Gold OA Publishing – authors publish in an open access journal that
provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website.
Examples of OA publishers are BioMed Central and the Public Library of
Science. Hybrid open access journals provide Gold OA only for those
individual articles for which their authors (or their author's institution or
funder) pay an OA publishing fee.
Green OA Self Archiving – authors publish in any journal and then self-
archive a version of the article for free public use in their institutional
repository, in a central repository (such as PubMed Central), or on some
other OA website. What is deposited is the peer-reviewed postprint
– either the author's refereed, revised final draft or the publisher's
version of record.
Taken from Wikipedia article on “Open Access” (Oct. 5, 2012)
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5. Open Access in Scientific Disciplines – 2009
Björk, B. C.; Welling, P.; Laakso, M.; Majlender, P.; Hedlund, T.; Guðnason, G. N. (2010). Scalas, Enrico. ed. "Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature:
Situation 2009". PLoS ONE 5 (6): e11273. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
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6. OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
• Growth increase due to U.S. federal mandates for open access
Subjects in OpenDOAR
Open Access Repository Types
Content Types in OpenDOAR
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7. Benefits of Open Access Repositories
Society as a whole benefits from an expanded and accelerated research cycle in which
research can advance more effectively because researchers have immediate access to all the
findings they need.
The visibility, usage and impact of researchers' findings increases with OA, as does their
power to find, access and use the findings of others.
Universities co-benefit from their researchers' increased impact, which also increases the
return on the investment of the funders of the research.
For teachers, Open Access means no restrictions on providing articles for teaching purposes.
Only the URL need be provided.
Source: Steven Harnad – http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/
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8. Benefits to Researchers
Increased visibility – easily available to whole world – indexed by Google
Author profiles
Author bibliographies
Collect all institutional materials in one place
Download statistics for each item/author
Permanent preservation
Way to provide digital output for printed materials
Facilitating sharing of digital teaching materials and aids
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9. Further Information on OA
Open Access article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
Directory of Open Access Repositories – http://www.opendoar.org/
SHERPA/RoMEO – http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
(The place to check and see specific publisher copyright policies and info on
self-archiving.)
Self-Archiving FAQ – http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/
Directory of Open Access Journals – http://www.doaj.org
OpCit http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
(Nice summary source for Open Access impact and further reading.)
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10. Digital Repository @ Iowa State
University
• Partnership between
Library and Vice
President for Research
and Economic
Development
• Recognizes value of
extending access to
and raising awareness
of campus research
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu
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11. Your Scholarship, Your Tool
• As an open access, non-commercial institutional
repository, Digital Repository @ Iowa State
University:
• Expands access to your scholarship;
• Increases citation counts; and
• Grows your reputation, the reputation of your
department, your college and your university.
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12. Support Grant Funded Research
• Meet current and future federal mandates for
publicly accessible scholarship and data;
• Increases dissemination of grant-funded
research
• National Science Foundation Broader
Impacts: “Broad Dissemination to Enhance
Scientific and Technological Understanding”
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13. Who’s contributed so far?
Unit # of items
Graduate College (Theses and 2466 theses and dissertations
Dissertations)
Animal Science (Animal Industry 1358 articles
Reports)
Iowa State Daily 100 issues
Library (Faculty and Staff 69 articles, images, books
Publications)
Registrar (University Catalogs) 12 catalogs
• Individual faculty:
• Peter J. Reilly (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
• Patricia A. Thiel (Ames Lab, Chemistry, Materials Science and
Engineering)
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14. 140000
120000
100000
80000
60000 All-time
40000 per Month
20000
0
Rapid Growth: Total Downloads
Today: 149,184 downloads
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15. Most downloaded items
1000+ downloads since mid-April
Author Title Downloads
Jacob Flaws Bystanders, blackmailers, and perpetrators: Polish 1788
complicity during the Holocaust
Priyanka N. Chawls: Analysis of a middle class housing type in 1339
Karandikar Mumbai, India
Juhee Kang Social media marketing in the hospitality industry: 1130
The role of benefits in increasing brand community
participation and the impact of participation on
consumer trust and commitment toward hotel and
restaurant brands
Sungmin Hyun Re-examination of Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory of 1114
Motivation in the Korean Army Foodservice
Operation
Andrea Mary A novel and cost-effective hydrogen sulfide removal 1060
Siefers technology using tire derived rubber particles
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16. Expand your
reach
Reach researchers and
other information
seekers who aren’t
subscribed to your
journals.
Reach an international
audience (visitors from
155 countries and
territories).
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17. Integration With Other Sites
• Your articles are given a stable URL
• RSS feeds allow you to pull repository content
into your department’s Web site or your
personal Web site
• We provide backlinks to your unit’s Web site
and can stream RSS feeds
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18. What else can we do for you?
• Permissions Checking
• Determine whether the full-text of an article may be
deposited;
• Identifying which version of an article may be deposited;
and
• Obtaining and depositing the final PDF of the article, where
allowed.
• Readership Statistics
• Publishing
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19. Copyright and
Permissions
Checking
Deposit in Digital
Repository @ Iowa State
University does not
affect a work’s copyright.
Works in the repository
are deposited in
accordance with United
States Copyright Law
and respects publishers’
policies.
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20. Readership Statistics
Monthly e-mail indicating # of items in the repository, # of
downloads for month and total # of downloads.
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21. Readership Statistics
Online interface providing download counts, search queries and
referring Web sites.
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22. More Than Journal Articles…
• Other materials produced on campus that be
showcased in the repository:
• Theses and dissertations
• Creative components
• Conference presentations
• Departmental and college newsletters
• White papers, technical reports, grey
literature
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23. A Powerful Publishing Tool
• An institutional and
professional publishing
tool
• Supports peer review
workflows
• Can be used for:
• Journals
• Conference Proceedings
• Electronic Books
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ans_air/vol658/iss1/
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24. Campus and Library Content
Theses and Dissertations Newspapers, Newsletters
http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/me_etd http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/iowastatedaily_2012-03
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25. Next steps?
• Highest priority: Work with researchers who need to
provide access to their scholarship to satisfy or
secure grant funding
• Pilot Departments: Identify departments, programs,
centers, offices and other units to begin populating
the repository
• Interested in participating?
• Departments and Programs: Contact your
Subject Librarian
• Administrative Units and Student Organizations:
Contact University Archives
• Centers and Institutes and other campus units:
Contact the Digital Repository Coordinator
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26. How can I contribute as an individual?
1. Send the Digital Repository Coordinator a CV
or a citation list
• The Library will take care of permissions checking and
depositing publishers’ PDFs, in accordance with copyright
and publisher policy
2. Set up a meeting with the Digital Repository
Coordinator (or other librarian) to discuss
permissions in relation to your CV
Self-submission is currently not supported.
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27. Contact Information
Harrison W. Inefuku
Digital Repository Coordinator
204 Parks Library
515-294-3180
hinefuku@iastate.edu
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