Visualization for Open Access – A Case Study of Karlstad University and the University of Makerere in Uganda

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Prima Gustiené
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Institutional Repository Access Policy: A Case Study in State University of Malang Library

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Dwi Novita Ernaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
State University ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Barriers To Adoption ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The University

This article discusses about access policy to institutional repository in State University of Malang Library. This study aims to analize access policy and accessibility to institutional repository, barriers to adoption of open access, as well as the views of stakeholders to open access institutional repository. The method used is the case study method with qualitative approach. Data was collected by observation, interviews, and document analysis. The result shows that the resistance and disagreement among the stakeholders toward open access institutional repository affect the access policy and accessibility to institutional repository. In protecting academic work, access restrictions which is explicitly does not have legality is applied. The access restriction affects users and visibility of institution. It generates complaints from library users most of whom are digital generation. The restriction also declines the university rank in Webometrics.

EScholarship at the University of California: a case study in sustainable innovation for open access

2004 ◽  
Vol 105 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 118-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Ann Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This paper describes the history of the University of California eScholarship program, a joint effort of the University of California Libraries in collaboration with the California Digital Library. It discusses the context that gave rise to the creation of the eScholarship Repository, the logistical issues involved in setting up a multi‐campus persistent repository for scholarly output, and future issues to be addressed in developing experimental reconfigurations of the components of scholarly communication in collaboration with communities of scholars.

scholarly journals A Matter of Discipline: Open Access, the Humanities, and Art History

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Patrick Tomlin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Present State ◽  
Art History ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Specific Configuration ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
The University

Recent events suggest that open access has gained new momentum in the humanities, but the slow and uneven development of open-access initiatives in humanist fields continues to hinder the consolidation of efforts across the university. Although various studies have traced the general origins of the humanities’ reticence to embrace open access, few have actually considered the scholarly practices and disciplinary priorities that shape a discipline’s adoption of its principles. This article examines the emergence, potential and actualized, of open access in art history. Part case study, part conceptual mapping, the discussion is framed within the context of three interlocking dynamics: the present state of academic publishing in art history; the dominance of the journal and self-archiving repository within open-access models of scholarly production; and the unique roles played by copyright and permissions in art historical scholarship. It is hoped that tracing the discipline-specific configuration of research provides a first step toward both investigating the identity that open access might assume within the humanities, from discipline to discipline, and explaining how and why it might allow scholars to better serve themselves and their audiences.  

The Concoct of Digital Preservation in Open Access

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
Thatayaone Segaetsho
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
The University

Research pursuit in Open Access (OA) has become a center of interest in academic institutions. Academic institutions and publishers have been energetically working hard towards achieving strategic and sustained partnerships in providing OA to information resources. While the work of strengthening these endeavours is ongoing, very little have been done on the logistics for digital preservation of OA resources in Institutional Repositories. This chapter explores digital preservation processes in OA using the University of Botswana Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Archive (UBRISA) as a case study. The chapter establishes the implementation activities, the outcomes, and challenges experienced by UBRISA. The findings reveal that the UBRISA commits to strategically capturing and preserving the intellectual output, raw data, and historic values of the institution for posterity. The UBRISA is challenged by limited budgets, logistical challenges, and limited expertise. This chapter recommends that partnerships and advocacy for legislative structures that support OA are critical.

Integrating the IR into strategic goals at the University of Toledo: case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Sabharwal ◽  
Gerald R. Natal
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this case study is to demonstrate a current model, as well as explore future models, for integrating institutional repositories (IRs) in higher education goals at the University of Toledo. Design/methodology/approachThis is a case study that uses literature review as an exploratory framework for new approaches while reflecting on existing literature to present the current practical framework for using IRs. FindingsThe digital environment has pushed academic institutions toward new strategies for curating their record on scholarship and preserving their heritage collections, using their IRs. Innovative approaches are also vital to curating the IR content digitally to facilitate access to those contents in ways that was not possible a few decades ago. Surveys and existing literature point to increasing uses of IRs despite abstinence from considering open access for scholarly activity among faculty concerned about copyright, plagiarism and sustainability. Staffing and funding IR initiatives are important factors in sustaining the curation of scholarship in the digital environment. Practical implicationsIRs with open access publishing, expert gallery and digital library features place academic libraries in a central role as partners in digital scholarship. Originality/valueThis case study presents an original approach to incorporating the IR into the curation of digital content while also considering potential uses of knowledge management approaches for data and knowledge sharing in an academic environment.

scholarly journals Improving the student learning experience through the student-led implementation of interactive features in an online open-access textbook

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Tanya Sharma ◽  
Rini Lukose ◽  
Jessica E. Shiers-Hanley ◽  
Sanja Hinic-Frlog ◽  
Simone Laughton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Open Educational Resource ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Animal Physiology ◽  
The University

This case study highlights the work of Students as Partners (SaP) as a balanced approach for implementing and evaluating an online open-access textbook in introductory animal physiology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Started in 2017 with an eCampus Ontario grant, the project involved undergraduate and graduate students developing and improving an open-access e-textbook to support student learning in a second-year undergraduate introductory animal physiology course. This case study focuses on the 2019–2020 academic term and the work of two undergraduate students working alongside faculty and two librarians. As part of their research, the partners consulted the literature and gathered feedback from students taking the course in which the open e-textbook was used. Student partners added updates and new interactive features to create a more engaging educational resource to support student learning. The partners also reflected on their role in the open educational resource development process.  

Visibility of Scholarly Research and Changing Research Communication Practices

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
Catherine Kell ◽  
Laura Czerniewicz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
National Development ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
The North ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University

Scholars globally are increasingly required to account for the visibility and impact of their research, and visibility and impact are increasingly digitally-mediated through the platforms and practices associated with Web 2.0. Traditional prestige-based metrics of visibility (ISI/WoS Impact Factor) measure only scholar-to-scholar outputs like journals and books. In many African universities with nascent research cultures, legacies of colonialism and imperatives of national development, these measures present scholars with particular challenges. At the same time, in the North, moves towards Open Access, along with the potential of Web 2.0 technologies for increasing visibility of research, offer the potential for changes to traditional measures of assessing impact and visibility. Using a framework whereby the extent of change in research communication practices at all stages of the research process can be analysed, this paper reveals the pressures shaping African research communication practices and the visibility of research, using data from a case study at the University of Namibia.

scholarly journals Editorial 30(2)

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barney Dalgarno ◽  
Sue Bennett ◽  
Gregor Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
New Members ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Leading Journals

<p>In this editorial we would like to discuss and comment on some of the some of the recent international developments in open access publishing as well as welcome the new members of our editorial board. As a journal with a long history of free open access with no charges for authors or readers, we have been able to avoid some of the complex decisions and trade-offs that authors, readers and institutions now have to make in choosing where to publish their work. Nevertheless, we feel that it would be valuable to explore some of the terminology around open access publishing to help readers and authors navigate the territory. In writing this editorial we have drawn upon some recent work undertaken by Laura Czerniewicz of the University of Cape Town, one of the new members of AJET’s Editorial Board (see below). Czerniewicz and Goodier (in press) undertook a case study of the practices of authors at one institution, along with the practices of the leading journals that these authors published in, with a focus on the consequences of the emergence of various open access publishing models.</p>

Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and a Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Somboon Watana, Ph.D.
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Master Teachers ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
Good Deed ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
The Buddha

Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand. In history there were many well-known Buddhist meditation master teachers, i.e., SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (To Bhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh Chantasalo, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, and Buddhadasabhikkhu, etc. Buddhist meditation practice is generally regarded by Thai Buddhists to be a higher state of doing a good deed than doing a good deed by offering things to Buddhist monks even to the Buddha. Thai Buddhists believe that practicing Buddhist meditation can help them to have mindfulness, peacefulness in their own lives and to finally obtain Nibbana that is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. The present article aims to briefly review history, and movement of Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and to take a case study of students’ Buddhist meditation practice research at the university level as an example of the movement of Buddhist meditation practice tradition in Thailand in the present.

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