South African responses to open access publishing : a survey of the research community

Fullard, Allison

doi:10.7553/73-1-1333

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“…A recent longitudinal study of research on OA journals since 1990s revealed that the 'rate of authors who were not aware about OA was as high as around 50% in the 1990s, but dropped to below 15% by 2007 08 . Similar observations were made in other studies 2,5,9,10 . Despite the growing level of OA awareness, literature shows that faculty are not familiar with specific OA issues such as self-archiving practices or the existence of institutional repositories (IR) in their institutions.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…another institution hosted an OA journal. Despite the low level of OA adoption, the findings from faculty's survey revealed that most faculty members were familiar with general OA issues, which was similar to previous studies conducted in Africa and elsewhere 2,5,[8][9][10] . Similar to prior studies 5,30 , most faculty members predominantly used OA venues to access information more than to disseminate their research materials.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Only one institution had established an IR, while another institution hosted an OA journal. Despite the low level of OA adoption, the findings from faculty's survey revealed that most faculty members were familiar with general OA issues, which was similar to previous studies conducted in Africa and elsewhere.…”

Section: Discussion Of Study Findingssupporting

confidence: 78%

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Open access behaviours and perceptions of health sciences faculty and roles of information professionals

Lwoga

Questier

2015

Health Info Libraries J

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Objective: This study sought to investigate the faculty's awareness, attitudes and use of open access, and the role of information professionals in supporting open access (OA) scholarly communication in Tanzanian health sciences universities. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 librarians, while questionnaires were physically distributed to 415 faculty members in all eight Tanzanian health sciences universities, with a response rate of 71.1%. Results: The study found that most faculty members were aware about OA issues. However, the high level of OA awareness among faculty members did not translate into actual dissemination of faculty's research outputs through OA web avenues. A small proportion of faculty's research materials was made available as OA. Faculty were more engaged with OA journal publishing than with self-archiving practices. Senior faculty with proficient technical skills were more likely to use open access than junior faculty. Major barriers to OA usage were related to ICT infrastructure, awareness, skills, author-pay model, and copyright and plagiarism concerns. Interviews with librarians revealed that there was a strong support for promoting OA issues on campus; however, this positive support with various open access-related tasks did not translate into actual action. It is thus important for librarians and OA administrators to consider all these factors for effective implementation of OA projects in research and academic institutions. • Universities and research institutions should establish institutional repositories to improve the dissemination of their research output.• Universities and research institutions in developing countries should improve the ICT infrastructure by looking into ways to increase the Internet bandwidth, access to computers and alternative sources of power.• Librarians should create awareness about OA and improve information literacy skills of faculty through workshops, participation in university meetings, public lectures, print materials and electronic communication.• Librarians should provide information services that focus on OA issues, such as copyright management, in order to assist researchers to understand the legal implications of self-archiving their research outputs.• Universities and research institutions should develop mandate policies, with appropriate quality assurance measures to enhance adoption of OA.

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Section: Literature Reviewsupporting

confidence: 92%

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Open access behaviours and perceptions of health sciences faculty and roles of information professionals

Lwoga

Questier

2015

Health Info Libraries J

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“…The study findings matches with the study by Fullard (2007) on institutional repositories in South African research community which found out that the success rate for accessing and using articles in the IR was extremely low due to reluctance of staff members to deposit materials and technological challenges.…”

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confidence: 74%

Scholarly communication: The value of repositories and e-portfolios at the University of Namibia (UNAM)

Yule¹,

Beukes-Amiss²

2017

Int. J. Lib. Inf. Sci.

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The study looked at scholarly communication with great emphasis being placed on the value of institutional repositories (IR) and electronic portfolios (EP) at the University of Namibia. The methodology adopted for the study was a qualitative design which included interviews and content analysis of relevant literature. The study provides an insight into key terms such as scholarly communication, open access (OA), institutional repository (IR) and electronic portfolios. The authors argue that IRs and e-portfolios complement each other as tools for a scholarly communication process since their role is to provide open access literature, and provide a platform of a usage-reporting service which gives authors and their institution information on how the content of the repository is being used. In the discussion, the study describes the implementation of the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) at the University of Namibia which was spearheaded by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and highlights some of the challenges faced which include absence of a dedicated institutional intellectual property (IP) policy, lack of interest by academics to share their artifacts or publications and limited skills and capacity on the part of personnel working on the project.

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“…For instance, a study conducted by Ibraheem and Devine (2013) had achieved a response rate of only (19.8 per cent). Other studies by Treptow andJames (2011) andFullard (2007) had achieved even lower response rates of only 14.0 and 29.0 per cent, respectively.…”

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Job prospects for Mzuzu university library and information science graduates

Chaputula

2014

New Library World

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a study that was conducted to find out the employment prospects of Mzuzu University (Mzuni) library and information science (LIS) graduates. Design/methodology/approach -The study made use of a survey designehil it was mainly quantitative in nature. A census of all LIS graduates from 2006 to 2013 was taken. The study also purposely sampled some major employers of LIS graduates. Self completion questionnaires were administered to both study groups by the researcher personally, and also through emails. Data were collected between September and October 2013, and SPSS was used to analyse the data. Findings from the two questionnaires were discussed in relation to prevailing literature in the field. Findings -The study established that there are few job opportunities for LIS graduates in the library sector. This came about because libraries have not taken deliberate steps to recruit LIS graduates while opportunities in the private sector were limited. Consequently, some LIS graduates were unemployed, while the majority had taken up alternative jobs. Nevertheless, LIS graduates had the requisite skills and attributes required for the job. Absence of a career structure for LIS professionals in the public sector, failure to recognise role of librarians and LIS qualifications and lack of training opportunities were some of the challenges which LIS graduates faced. Research limitations/implications -The study covers all LIS graduates who graduated fromMzuni between 2006 and 2013. However, lack of updated contact information means that the researcher had challenges to reach out to most of the graduates save for those working in the major libraries. Furthermore, a good number of the graduates did not respond to the questionnaire sent, particularly those who graduated from the generic programme. This led to a lower than anticipated response rate. This implies that some of the study findings may have some bias towards the LIS graduates in the mature group. Practical implications -The research findings have a big bearing on policy formulation and decision making in government, the public and private sector players, professiona...

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South African responses to open access publishing : a survey of the research community

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

Open access behaviours and perceptions of health sciences faculty and roles of information professionals

Open access behaviours and perceptions of health sciences faculty and roles of information professionals

Scholarly communication: The value of repositories and e-portfolios at the University of Namibia (UNAM)

Job prospects for Mzuzu university library and information science graduates

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