Open access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovationecosystemspments in African data ecosystems

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1 Open access transitionary process and challenges within the National System of Innovationecosystemspments in African data ecosystems Lazarus Matizirofa Acting Executive Director, Knowledge Management Corporate, NRF Daisy Selematsela (Prof) Executive Director, UNISA Libraries SANLiC Conference, May 2017, Durban

2 Perceived OA Challenges Promoting and supporting OA Views on Open Access and Data Sharing Junior staff lack proper induction into quality journals in their respective discipline Perceived lack of attention to predatory journals Some research authorities support the writing in predatory journals and/or write in and universities pay the page fees required by these predatory journals Performance management/incentives focusing on quantity and subsidies

3 Anecdotal observations Perceived link between predatory publishing, Open Science (OA) and Transformation Agenda

4 30% of Rating applications with Predatory Journals Number of articles published in Predatory Journals None Number of applicants

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6 Proposed intervention Insert declaration on application form (grants/rating) Develop policy on use of predatory journals and deceptive publishers Consultation with Publishers and research community Engage DHET to remove predatory journals from list of accredited journals Investigate the anecdotal potential link to transformation agenda and Open Science understanding

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8 WORKFLOW TECHNICAL ALIGNMENT : LOCAL AND GLOBAL

9 South African Repository Landscape 48 SA Repositories are registered at ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) 35 DSpace repositories (which NRF wish to partner in terms of software developments and capacity development) First developer training (2 days) was hosted in Cape Town in December nd DSpace-CRIS workshop: planned for December 2017 during the DST s Open Science Forum in Pretoria: part of COAR AFRICA site workshop DigiTool; 1 Repsository Softwares (SA) Others; 4 Fedora; 1 ETD-db; 2 Eprints; 2 Bepress ; 1 DSpace; 35

10 Public Funded Scholarly research output should be accessible to the community - stored, preserved, and made freely accessible in digital form

11 NRF OA Statement: Research Output Submissions Journals articles, conference papers & books/book chapters) Authors Accepted Manuscripts Datasets: Supporting publications Publishers PDFs/ HTML version - items should be digital, available freely online (Internet) Pre-prints/Post-prints must be deposited in the host OA institutional repository as guided by Sherpa-RoMEO Archiving permissions All NRF funded datasets should be deposited in an OA repository and reported to the NRF (easily readable by computers) if under embargo still metadata should be accessible via an Open data repository

12 NRF s DMP Template -Digital Object Identifiers NRF manages and registers DOIs as a national Centre for DATACITE (implementation strategy is in place) NRF grantees are required to register their DMPs and datasets (NRF will customize and use the Digital Curation Centre s DMP template) NRF grantees datasets are curated and hosted in the NRF s SADA repository if host institutions are not ready (Repository of Last Resort DIRISA)

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14 National Infrastructure Platforms (SARIR) - Databases

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16 NEW WORKFLOW IMPLEMENTATION HEIs Libraries HEIs Research Offices/Registries NRF

17 NRF Funded ETDs

18 International Accord strengthens ties between repository networks worldwide On May 8, 2017 (Venice, Italy), several regional and national repository networks and stakeholder groups formally endorsed an international accord that will lead to the greater alignment of repository networks around the world. The aim of the accord is to improve cooperation between national and regional repository networks by identifying common principles and areas of collaboration that will lead to the development of global services

19 Aligning Repository Networks: International Accord Signatories Australia - Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Canada - Canadian Association of Research Libraries China - Confederation of Chinese Academic Institutional Repository and National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences Europe - OpenAIRE Japan - Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository Latin America - LA Referencia* South Africa - National Research Foundation United States - Association of Research Libraries and Center for Open Science

20 COAR s International Accord COAR aspire to strengthen and enhance the distributed, communitybased open access infrastructure around the world. COAR acknowledge that strong relationships between regional and national repository networks are important, and that there are significant benefits of working together: The development of value added services on top of global repositories requires the widespread, international adoption of common, open APIs and metadata standards Concentrating efforts at the regional and national level will ensure responsiveness to local needs and contexts, and prevents overlaps and cost redundancies Sharing metadata across regions ensures comprehensive, global data coverage

21 COAR-NRF Repository Technical Alignment Discovery: Develop interoperability of repositories through web-friendly repository technologies and architectures. Assessment: Develop repository functionality related to the quality assessment of content - generate symbolic value and provide researchers with the means to share their research, and be recognised and rewarded accordingly. Workflows: Expand the workflows and functionalities of repositories to better support the full lifecycle of research. The aim is to integrate tools into repositories that support researchers throughout the research process - improving cross-repository workflows which will allow assets from one repository to be easily reused in different contexts, and result in better repository ingest mechanisms, as well as support the automated and continuous publishing of research artefacts. Impact: Define and adopt reliable and interoperable impact metrics for repository content. Usage statistics and other impact metrics demonstrate to users the value of contributing content to repositories - aim is to define standardised impact metrics across repositories in order to establish trust and ensure reliable, community accepted measures

22 DSpace_CRIS Africa Workshop 2016, Cape Town Participants: ARC, CPUT, DUT, HSRC, NRF, SABINET, SANSA, UCT, UNISA, UNIVEN, UniZulu, National University of Science & Technology (Zimbabwe), University of Dar el Salaam, and University of Namibia

23 Thank you Lazarus Matizirofa Daisy Selematsela, Prof