Towards a new Research and Experimentation Platform in Open Publishing and facilitating access to publicly-funded Canadian research.

1. Diego Argáez
Program Officer, Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Jeanette Hatherill
Bibliothécaire responsable de la communication savante |Scholarly Communication Librarian
Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
Julie Lavigne
Legal Studies Librarian, Scholarly Communications and Copyright
Carleton University
CASRAI ReConnect14 - November 20, 2014

2. Outline
• Rationale for CARL aligning with OA
• Brief overview of CARL’s OA activities
• Practical ways in which CARL and its member
libraries advocate and provide support for OA

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4. CARL is a signatory of :
• Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI)
• Berlin Declaration on Open
Access to Knowledge in the
Sciences and Humanities

8. OA Advocacy & resources
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
http://doaj.org
http://oaspa.org
https://pkp.sfu.ca

9. OA Advocacy & resources
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/openaccess.html

10. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/ir.html

12. Institutions without an
open digital repository?

13. Adoptive repositories
University of Victoria / UVicSpace
Simon Fraser University / Summit
University of Alberta* / Education & Research Archive
University of Calgary* / University of Calgary Institutional Repository
University of Manitoba / MSpace
University of Toronto* / T Space
McGill University / eScholarship@McGill
Dalhousie University / DalSpace
*Denotes an national adoptive repository, the others are regional.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/canadian-ir-repositories/adoptive-repositories.html

15. Devon Greyson et al, University Supports for Open Access: A Canadian National Survey, Canadian Journal of
Higher Education, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2009) http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cjhe/article/view/472

16. Sources
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the
Sciences and Humanities
http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration
• Devon Greyson et al, University Supports for Open Access: A
Canadian National Survey, Canadian Journal of Higher
Education, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2009)
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/cjhe/article/view/472
• UVicSpace, Information for external researchers
http://www.uvic.ca/library/featured/collections/uvic/uvicspace
/external-researchers.php

17. Diego Argáez
diego.argaez@carl-abrc.ca
(613) 482-9344 X 105
www.carl-abrc.ca

18. Jeanette Hatherill
Scholarly Communication Librarian
University of Ottawa
www.scholarlycommunication.uottawa.ca
@JeanetteAnneH

20. uO Research (Recherche uO)
◦ 20,242 items
◦ ~ 15,900 of these are theses
◦ ~ 112 items are added per month
◦ departments/faculties have their own collections
◦ researchers yet to develop the habit of submitting

22. University of Ottawa Author Fund in Support
of Open Access Publishing
◦ started in 2010
◦ 530 articles published
◦ 372 unique authors
supported
◦ 59 different
departments
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
Applications to Author Fund by year
Projected
Actual

23. Eligibility
◦ faculty, grad students, affiliated researchers
◦ 2 applications per year
◦ peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters
◦ OA and hybrid
Changes to come
◦ no hybrid support
◦ right to refuse applications from predatory journals

24. *2014-2015 as of August 27, 2014

25. 9 journals supported
◦ OJS – open source tool for journal management
◦ uO Research - archiving
◦ currently offer technical support
◦ developing greater publishing support
advice on increasing visibility
community of practice

26. Collaboration with Library and Press
◦ begun in 2012
◦ creative commons license
◦ $10,000 per book/ max 3 books/ year
◦ 3 year commitment, being assessed in 2015

28. decentralized model for managing scholarly
communications activities, including OA
responsibilities split between Library, OVPRI,
and interested faculty members, though
much of day-to-day management happens in
the Library

29. Schol
Comm
cttee
GSA OA
Award
review
cttee
CURVE
cttee
Office of the Vice-
President (Research &
International)
MacOdrum
Library
Admin
MADGIC
Systems
Ref
©
CURIE
GSA OA
Award
CUDO
OJS
Prof
Skills
RDM
CURVE
Faculty
reps

30. Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour
pilot launched 2012-13 fiscal year
$25,000 from Library / $25,000 from OVPRI
reimbursement of article processing fees where
co/authored by Carleton researchers in peer-
reviewed, fully-OA journals
www.library.carleton.ca/services/scholarly-
communications/open-access/curie-fund

31. 2012-13: $9,754
2013-14: $20,358
May 2012 – June 2014
28 Applications submitted
25 Approved applications
19 Unique submitting authors
9 Unique departments
19 Unique journals
12 Unique publishers

32. sponsored by GSA, Library, and OVPRI
launched 2011
up to 5 awards of $1000 each
* one prize split into $500 each for paper co-authored by two separate applicants
www.library.carleton.ca/services/scholarly-
communications/open-access/graduate-student-
open-access-award
32 2011-12 applications 5 awards
18 2012-13 applications 5 awards
47 2013-14 application 6 awards*

33. Carleton University Research Virtual
Environment
launched in October 2011
fully-searchable, and documents also
indexed in Library’s Summon search
(catalogue) and in Google
curve.carleton.ca

34. currently hosting 4 journals, but planning a
few more
Library support includes journal setup,
hosting services, training and technical
support as needed
www.library.carleton.ca/services/open-journal-hosting

35. Research Data Management
CUDO: digital library of objected collected by
Carleton (not created by)
Professional Skills Workshops for graduate
students
copyright questions
occasional events and
outreach
www.library.carleton.ca/services/scholarly-communications

36. Julie Lavigne, BA, LLB, MLIS
Legal Studies Librarian
Scholarly Communications and Copyright
Reference Services
238 MacOdrum Library
Carleton University
613-520-2600 x2544
julie.lavigne@carleton.ca