Greater Reach for Your Research: Resources for Authors
Sharing enables new research
to build on earlier findings. It not only fuels the further advancement
of knowledge, it brings scientists and scholars the recognition that advances
their careers.
In the digital world, the ways we share and use scholarly material are expanding
— rapidly,
fundamentally, irreversibly.
Institutional Repositories |
SPARC Canadian Author Addendum |
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Create Change Canada |
Resources from SPARC |
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Open Access: Select Bibliography |
More on Open Access |
Institutional Repositories
Greater Reach for Your Research:
Expanding Readership
Through Digital Repositories
This brochure discusses the benefits of repositories, describes how they fit into the broader scholarly communication environment, responds to any major concerns that researchers may have, and distinguishes IRs from other related initiatives in Canada- all in a way that is easy to browse and read. The brochure, developed by the CARL Institutional Repositories Working Group and SPARC, is available in both print and electronic formats. The brochure can be ordered for a nominal fee through the CARL website or printed directly from the website so that institutions can incorporate their own branding into the brochure.
( Available in English and French. Contact the CARL Office for more details: carladm@uottawa.ca, 613-562-5385 )
Ernie Ingles: Why Repositories?
From Open Access Videos on Vimeo.
In this video Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost
and Chief Librarian at University of Alberta, says that institutional
repository development “brings [libraries] right back into the
mainstream of providing services to our faculty and graduate students.”
During this period of tight budgets, libraries must decide whether
supporting a digital repository is an “add on” or an “instead
of” in their resource allocations. “In my opinion, institutional
repositories are here to stay," says Ingles. If new funds cannot
be found to support them, "they have to be considered an 'instead
of' because…it’s all about [the library’s] relevancy.”
The three-minute video was shot at the SPARC Digital Repositories
Meeting in November 2008.
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CARL Institutional
Repository ProgramInstitutional Repositories
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SPARC
Canadian Author Addendum
Why use the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum?Watch this
brief video produced by the Institute on Scholarly Communication and
SPARC to know more. Watch this video with RealPlayer |
Using the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum
to secure your rights as the author of a journal article
This explanatory brochure provides context and instructions for using SPARC Canadian Author Addendum. (Available in English and French. Contact the CARL Office for more details. )
The SPARC Canadian Author Addendum
Traditional publishing agreements often require that authors grant exclusive rights to the publisher. The SPARC Canadian Author Addendum enables authors to secure a more balanced agreement by retaining select rights, such as the rights to reproduce, reuse, and publicly present the articles they publish for non-commercial purposes. It will help Canadian researchers to comply with granting council public access policies, such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Policy on Access to Research Outputs. The Canadian Addendum reflects Canadian copyright law and is an adaptation of the original U.S. version of the SPARC Author Addendum. The addendum is available in both French and English.
CAUT Intellectual Property Advisory: Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles
This advisory, by the Canadian
Association of University Teachers (CAUT),
assists academic staff in retaining copyright ownership of articles they
publish in journals.
Create Change Canada
Create Change Canada is a detailed web site that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide change. Adapted from the US Create Change, the web site talks about how faster and wider sharing of research outputs fuels the advance of knowledge and offers practical ways faculty in Canada can look out for their own interests as researchers.
Resources from SPARC
SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
SPARC Brochures / Resources for Author
Open Access: Select Bibliography
- Open Access at Concordia University: A Report for the Office of Research
(Shearer, 2009)
http://library.concordia.ca/research/openaccess/OpenAccessatConcordia%20DiscussionPaper.pdf - Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age
(Chan, 2009)
http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=2477&category=featured_articles - A field guide to misunderstandings about open access (Suber, 2009)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/openaccess_fieldguide.shtml - Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University's Mandate
To Mandate Open Access (Harnad, 2009)
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17273/ - Research reveals economic case for open access publishing (JISC, 2009)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/01/houghton.aspx
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http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishing.pdf - The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access (Harnad et al, 2008) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15852/
- Characteristics of Open Access Web Citation Network: A Multidisciplinary Study (Kousha, 2008) http://www.collnet.de/Berlin-2008/KoushaWIS2008coa.pdf
- The citation advantage of open access articles (Norris, 2008)
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/4089/1/Thesis%20MN.pdf
Doctoral Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of PhD of Loughborough - EPrints makes its mark (Stanger and McGregor, 2007) http://eprints.otago.ac.nz/565/
- Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles (Eisenbach, 2006) http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157&ct=1
- Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics (Henneken et al, 2006) http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604061
- The purpose of institutional repositories in UK higher education : a repository manager's view (Rumsey, 2006) http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/800/
- Repositories for research: Southampton's evolving role in the knowledge cycle (Simpson and Hey, 2006) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/41240/
More on Open Access
- The Open Citation Project - Reference Linking
and Citation Analysis for Open Archiveshttp://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
- Open Access Scholarly Information
Sourcebook (OASIS)http://www.openoasis.org/
This site aims to provide a complete ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it, developments and initiatives around the world, with links to all additional resources and information that could be useful.
