Repositories: Rhodes University Digital Commons & Other Examples
Open Access: Repositories: Rhodes University Digital Commons & Other Examples
Resources and Information about the Open Access Movement
Open Access Terms and Definitions
Benefits of Open Access
Where to Find Quality Openly Accessible Research: tips for researchers
Open Access @ Rhodes
How to Make Your Research More Open Toggle Dropdown
Evaluating Open Access Journals
Predatory Publishing in South Africa
Policies and Perspectives
Copyright Basics & Creative Commons Licences
Understanding Repositories
Open Access Week @ Rhodes Toggle Dropdown
Open Access Week @ Rhodes 21 - 27 October 2013
Open Access Week @ Rhodes 02- 06 October 2017
Open Access Week @ Rhodes 03-07 September 2018
Open Access Week@ Rhodes: 21 - 27 October 2019
Selected repository directories
OpenSALDRU Publications Repository
The Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit digital repository collections contain publications from research conducted within the research unit.
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories. It enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held. OpenDOAR has opted to collect and provide information solely on sites that wholly embrace the concept of open access to full text resources that are of use to academic researchers.
South African Institutional Repositories
A directory of South African Academic Open-Access Repositories on the OpenDOAR platform.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Disciplinary/Subject repositories
Disciplinary Repositories listed on the Open Access Directory
The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them, use them for reference, and update them.
Aquatic Commons
The Aquatic Commons is a repository covering the marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments. Iincludes the science, technology, management, conservation, economic, sociological and legal aspects.
arXiv.org
Open access to over 500,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
Cogprints (Cognitive Sciences ePrint Archive)
An electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
OceanDocs: repository of ocean documents
Publications in Marine Science in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more.
PolicyArchive: public policy research
PolicyArchive, created by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Library, includes briefs, reports and multimedia material that represents non-partisan public policy research.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 101 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers.
A fulltext database of peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings and other publications by research scientists employed by the USDA Forest Service. Also includes monographs published by the Forest Service.
The Seals Digital Commons
The SEALS Digital Commons contains the digital collections of the academic institutions in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
In 1998 the South East Academic Libraries System (SEALS) was established by the academic libraries as an informal academic library forum in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. SEALS became a formal academic library consortium in 1999, with the vision to create a virtual library for the Eastern Cape. The member libraries are from the Nelson Mandela University, Rhodes University, University of Fort Hare, and Walter Sisulu University.
Rhodes Hosted Journals / Open Journal Systems at Rhodes University
In 2016 Rhodes University Library implemented the Rhodes Hosted Journals service. The Rhodes Hosted Journals service complements the Seals Digital Commons in that together these systems provide an established platform for scholarly communication.
Southern African Journal of Gerontology
The Rhodes Hosted Journals service runs on the Open Journal System System (OJS), a journal management system developed by PKP (Public Knowledge Project). The service is intended to improve and expand access to research and to support scholarly journal publication processes by optimising article level discovery (linked data environment, including link resolvers, indices and harvesters).
Keep on Populating - ​Sustainable Practices for Populating Repositories
Repositories are a vital element of the scholarly communication infrastructure. However, the community needs to work hard to get the actual content.
This report describes a number of profiles of sustainable practices for populating repositories. The practices described here are based on a review of repository activities around the world, and represent a variety of institutional and jurisdictional contexts.
The practices fall into three broad categories:
Incentives: promoting the benefits of repositories through advocacy and metrics, as well as the adoption of policies/mandates that require deposit;
Integration: amalgamating repository services with other institutional services like research information systems and research biographies;
Mediation: implementing tools, workflows, and agreements that ease and simplify the deposit process.
The repository community was born out of an environment of cooperation, openness and innovation. The practices profiled here reflect these traditions and represent creative approaches to staffing, imaginative software developments, and adoption of novel policies.
Read the Report Here: http://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Sustainable-best-practices_final.pdf.
Measuring Value in Open Access Repositories
Meredith Wisner (Pratt Institute)
Open access institutional repositories were created to promote access to information, encourage scholarly communication, and demonstrate institutional prestige. While these repositories have been widely adopted, the quality of their contents often fails to represent their institution's scholarly output. Moreover, current research uses measurements of quantity, not quality, to assess their value. In response, this article opens new areas of scholarly inquiry by assessing the quality of contents. This is accomplished through a cross-sectional study of repositories at American colleges...
THE WORLD BANK - OKR
About The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank's official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR is interoperable with other repositories and supports optimal discoverability and re-usability of the content by complying with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
The World Bank's new Open Access Policy (effective July 1, 2012), and the OKR will both improve access to those who regularly use World Bank research outputs and knowledge products as well as increase the range of people who can now access Bank content—from governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), to students and the general public.
By extending and improving access to World Bank research, the World Bank aims to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to use Bank knowledge to develop solutions to development problems that will help improve the lives of poor people around the world.
World Bank Open Access Policy and Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank approved recently a new Open Access policy for its research outputs and knowledge products, effective July 1, 2012. The new policy formalizes the Bank's practice of making research and knowledge freely available online. In support of the new policy the Bank is consolidating thousands of books, articles, reports and research papers in a search-engine friendly Open Knowledge Repository, and allowing the public to distribute, reuse and build upon much of its work. Watch this video to learn more about the policy and how can users around the world benefit and use the new Open Knowledge Repository.
For more information please visit: http://openknowledge.worldbank.org
Open Access Mandates / Requirements
A growing number of academic institutions around the world have enacted policies to require the deposit of journal articles and other scholarly works to their institutional repositories. These policies can be adopted at departmental, faculty or institutional levels. ROARMAP provides a collection of links to such policies.
ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies)
New Open Access Repository (OAR) UNESCO
An Open Door to UNESCO's Knowledge
UNESCO has launched its Open Access Repository (OAR) making more than
300 on-line books, reports, and articles freely available. The OAR
will operate under a new open licensing system developed by the
Creative Commons organization specifically for intergovernmental
agencies (From UNESCO).
In line with its mission of knowledge sharing, UNESCO is responsible for transferring to society all its achievements and findings that foster social development. Through the Open Access Publications portal, UNESCO maintains its efforts to provide access to information to a broad public so that scientific knowledge the Organization produces can be useful to as many people as possible. - See more at: http://en.unesco.org/open-access/access-thousands-free-publications#sthash.oF58zBpJ.dpuf
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