Network Content on Social Sciences and Humanities: Ukrainian Open Access Journals and Institutional Repositories

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Network Content on Social Sciences and
Humanities Ukrainian Open Access Journals and
Institutional Repositories

• Iryna Kuchma
• International Renaissance Foundation
• kuchma_at_irf.kiev.ua
• Present State and Development of Ukrainian
  Research Academic Networks
• NATO ANW, Apr. 2-6, 2003, NTUU KPI, Kyiv

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structure

• general remarks
• what? who? why? how big?
• business model
• getting scholars and their institutions involved
• alliances are crucial
• social transformation is more important than all
  technological features

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what?

• collection of
• open access electronic journal
• institutional repositories
• a collaborative project
• consortium of electronic publishers

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who?

• scholars
• editorial boards
• academic institutions

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why?

• to improve scientific communication you need
  something in between the book and the letter
• to maximize research impact by maximizing
  research access
• social responsibility of universities for
  availability and use of their researches

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data? what data?

• journals
• articles
• theses
• lectures
• conference materials
• multimedia documents
• surveys
• reports
• e-books

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how big?

• all branches of social sciences and humanities or
  even more
• all levels of higher education
• very broadly defined
• all over Ukraine
• this is best to be done on a per-discipline basis

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evaluative data

• abstract views
• downloads
• citation counts
• collection membership evaluation
• growing emphasis on communication
• growing emphasis on quality assessment

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business model

• economics
• not for profit
• open access
• organization
• network, not hierarchical
• strong input from customers
• no central branding

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network organization

• Back offices
• service providers
• Front offices
• intermediate to academic community (scholars,
  editorial boards, academic institutions)
• Co-ordinator
• recruiting new offices
• stimulating synergy between front offices
• regulating the dynamics within the network

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what else?

• to draft university policy for the self-archiving
  of all university research output (preprint and
  postprint)

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what for?

• research assessment
• research funding
• citation impact
• average of 336 more citations to inline articles
  compared to offline articles published in the
  same venue
• (Lawrence, S. (2001) Free online availability
  substantially increases a papers impact Nature
  411

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project partners

• IATP Internet Access and Training program in
  Ukraine
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Fulbright Exchange program
• Scholarly Publishers and Academic Resources
  Coalition Europe (SPARC Europe)

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thank you for your attention

• http//www.irf.kiev.ua