2. What is Open Access?
Anyone may read, download, copy, distribute,
print, search, or link to the full text of articles
What Open Access is not?
It is not self-publishing, nor a way to bypass the
peer-review process. Not a “stick anything on the
web” approach
So long as authors and original
publishing source is properly
acknowledged through citation
3. What is an Institutional Repository?
• Open access digital archive on open source
software platform
• Putting scholarly content into an institutional
repository enables staff and institutions to manage
and preserve it
• A repository is commonly used for open access
research outputs
5. Benefits of the Institutional Repository
for the Researcher
• Research papers are discovered through search
engines like Google
• Increases impact, visibility and usage of research on
the internet;
• Provides new contacts and can result in research
partnerships for authors;
• Repositories provide usage statistics, which reveal
international interest;
• Secure storage of research, as well as stability and
longevity.
6. Benefits of the Institutional Repository for the
Institution
• Increased impact and visibility of research on the
web;
• Publicises the institution’s research strengths,
attracting more post graduate students, strong
researchers, and institutional partnerships;
• Quality research available to the general public.
7. Openness at UCT
• 2008: UCT signed the Cape Town Declaration on Open
Education
• 2011: UCT signed the Berlin Declaration on Open
Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
• 2014: UCT passed an Open Access Policy (June)
• 2014: UCT launched an institutional repository (end of
July), called OpenUCT
8. UCT’s Open Access Policy
• UCT scholars and students should deposit their journal
articles and theses and dissertations
• Other scholarship includes essays, books, conference
papers, reports, educational resources, presentations,
scholarly multi-media material and audio-visual works
• UCT Libraries have been tasked to implement the
Open Access Policy
The Policy is committed to preserving “scholarly work of UCT
scholars and to make this scholarship discoverable, visible
and freely available online to anyone who seeks it".
11. Things to remember when submitting an
article to OpenUCT
• Keep your postprint
• Know which version is allowed in the IR
• Ask for permission to deposit postprint into IR or
add an author addendum to publication
agreement
• Look up Publisher Copyright Policy
on SHERPA/RoMEO website
• Follow submission steps on OpenUCT
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14. Theses and Dissertations in OpenUCT
• Default is Open Access
• 3 exemptions:
– Deferred publication
– To enable IP protection of work
– Sensitive findings
