Open Access in Practice Bielefeld University Dr' Norbert Lossau Bielefeld University Library Meeting

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Open Access in Practice - Bielefeld
UniversityDr. Norbert LossauBielefeld
University / LibraryMeeting UKB/AGUB Nijmegen,
23.06.2006 

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Activities
Local Awareness Raising and Advocacy
Institutional Repository
e-Scholarship Repository
National Awareness Raising and Advocacy
External Collaboration And Support Actions
OA Journals
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Implementing Open Access at Universities What
really matters!

• Why is OA relevant to us, i.e. the Rectorate?
• Access to scientific information cant be any
  longer secured by the local budget
• IRs assemble the local research output at one
  place, hence facilitating visibility to the
  outside world (funders, potential partner
  institutions) see link to local research
  database
• IRs can support research evaluation
• Others, mainly MPG, DFG, international
  organisations are already supporting OA
• Build a trusted relationship with the Rectorate!

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Implementing Open Access at Universities What
really matters!

• Why is OA relevant to us, i.e. the Authors?
• Electronic journals subscriptions have been /
  need to be significantly reduced new
  subscriptions almost unaffordable
• Author practice has direct impact on access as
  user (raise awareness for researcher author
  user)
• Self-archived articles in IRs increase the
  visibility and citation impact
• IRs support interdisciplinary collaboration and
  research (getting to know about colleagues
  work)
• Others, such as MPG, funding bodies (DFG, EC),
  learned societies etc. are already supporting OA
• Build a trusted relationship with Authors!

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Implementing Open Access at Universities What
really matters!

• Support actions that have some impact
• University wide task force/working group, where
  authors and rectorate members talk to each other
• Gain researchers as OA advocates
• Point local authors and rectorate (very
  selectively) to prominent actions at prominent
  institutions, by renowned scientists
• Target-group specific information about OA

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Implementing Open Access at Universities What
really matters!

• Implement services, that fit authors needs
• Example The Bielefeld eScholarship Repository

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Homepage before...
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Homepage after evaluation by authors
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Frontdoor Page before ...
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Frontdoor Page after...
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Original full text view
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New Two entry pages
Neu VORSCHALT- SEITEN
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Subject Browsing before...
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Subject Browsing after...
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Additional Browsing faculties etc.
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New Author Browsing
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Shorttitle list before...
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Shorttitle-list after...
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Standard Search of the IR system
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New BASE implemented
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BASE plus link to Google Scholar
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Citation Check via Google Scholar
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• Thank you!
• norbert.lossau_at_uni-bielefeld.de