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A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories [PDF]
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 2005 This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report of 2004 on scientific publishing recommended.
Stephen Pinfield
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Mandates and the Contributions of Open Genomic Data [PDF]
Publications, 2013 This research attempts to seek changing patterns of raw data availability and their correlations with implementations of open mandate policies. With a list of 13,785 journal articles whose authors archived datasets in a popular biomedical data repository
Jingfeng Xia
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Maximizing research impact through institutional and national open-access self-archiving mandates [PDF]
, 2006 No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving
Harnad, Stevan
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Top-down mandates and advocacy will help institutional repositories continue to enhance open access content and delivery [PDF]
, 2013 Institutional repositories (IRs) can sometimes be perceived as a low-impact method of open access delivery. Neil Stewart explains how the rapidly changing scholarly communications ecosystem stands to greatly benefit from the continued development of repositories. The future of IRs looks bright, and they and the services built upon them will continue to
Stewart, N.
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Open Data Meets Digital Curation: An Investigation of Practices and Needs
International Journal of Digital Curation, 2017 In the United States, research funded by the government produces a significant portion of data. US law mandates that these data should be freely available to the public through ‘public access’, which is defined as fully discoverable and usable by the
Christopher Lee +3 more
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IASSIST Quarterly, 2021 This paper aims to examine the growth of IR in the East Africa region (Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda) from 2010-2020. This study adopted a content analysis methodology. Data for this study was extracted from OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repository),
Joseph Mwalubanda
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PLOS ONE, 2021 Background Since 2008, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has mandated that studies it funds either in whole or in part are required to publish their results as open access (OA) within 12 months of publication using either online repositories and/or OA journals. Yet, there is evidence that authors are poorly compliant with this mandate.
Michael A. Scaffidi +8 more
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, 2021 Aim The presentation traces the emerging roles of institutional repositories in Serbia, beyond the main task required by the national Open Science (OS) policy (adopted in 2018): to serve as Green Open Access (OA) venues. Background At the time when the national OS policy was adopted (2018), Serbia had already had a developed network of Diamond OA ...
Kosanović, Biljana, Ševkušić, Milica
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Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2023 Introduction: This mixed-method study analyzes the self-archiving behaviors and underlying motivations of researchers at an institution very recently recategorized by the Carnegie Classification system from “Doctoral– High Research Activity (R2)” to ...
Jack Maness +3 more
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Toward Easy Deposit: Lowering the Barriers of Green Open Access with Data Integration and Automation
Publications, 2020 This article describes the design and development of an interoperable application that supports green open access with long-term sustainability and improved user experience of article deposit.
Hui Zhang
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