Global OA Policy in the Mainstream

Policy workshop, University of Namibia

22 May 2012

UNam Research Strategy

• A commitment to Open Access and an innovation policy for industry partnership

• Aims to be locally relevant by addressing local research needs while remaining internationally competitive and engaged

• Recognizes the importance of collaborative interdisciplinary research as a key to international competitiveness

• Strives to balance teaching and learning and research loads to ensure effective research performance

Open Access is now in the mainstream

What does this mean in terms of institutional and national policy

development?

A changing context – International organisations

UNESCO OA Initiative

UNESCO Policy Guidelines

• Primary focus on journals, ‘green’ and ‘gold’ routes

• “Peer reviewed publications’ are the basis• Acknowledges the problem of ‘grey’ literature • Associated policies – IP policy– Licensing – policy for author publication contracts (‘addenda’

toolkits)

The World Bank adopts OA

World Bank guidelines

• Using open licences (CC-BY) to encourage take-up and reversioning of publications

• Requiring OA deposit of all publications (including books)

• Requiring deposit of books published by outside publishers on a CC BY ND licences

FAO – publication and ‘translation’

A changing context – national and regional governments

UK Research Council

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmsctech/856/85602.htm

The UK government hires Jimmy

Wales of Wikipedia to

advise on national OA

policy

WiLLGT09

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported WiLLGT09

South Africa

The Green Paper for post-school education and training

Intellectual Property Policy

IP for Public Justice

http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration

Institutional IP policy – JISC guidelines

http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/intellect_property.pdf

Policy implications in an African context

• Is there likely to be a shift away from the current scientometrics towards alternative measurement of research performance?

• What are the implications for publishing policy and practice at institutional and national levels?

• What needs to be done about IP policy development and updating?

Measures of national innovation

• Will there be a change in the expectation of patent and copyright production as the core measures of research contribution?

• In that situation, what are the measures that we would like to see – what do we want to measure?

• What reward systems to we need to put in place to back up our strategies?

What do w

e measure?

Altmetrics

Google Scholar Metrics

Will this help us align our strategic research goals with a wider range

of measures?

URLs

• UNESCO OA Strategy http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/images/GOAP/OAF2011/213342e.pdf

• World Bank OA Strategyhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/04/16200740/world-bank-open-access-policy-formal-publications• JISC Draft Institutional IP Policyhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2009/scaiprtoolkit/3draftiprstatement.aspx

URLs contd

• FAO CIARD publication strategy http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/images/GOAP/OAF2011/6.2_Rudgard.pdf • Altmetricshttp://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ • Total Impacthttp://total-impact.org/about• IP for Public Justicehttp://infojustice.org/home