Mise en service d'une archive num�rique
Discussion Guidelines:
La mise en place d'une archive OAi ne pose pas de gros probl�mes techniques et financiers. Pourtant le d�veloppement de ces archives dans nos universit�s, dans nos laboratoires et dans nos instituts de recherche n'est pas tr�s rapide.
Quels sont les freins?
Quels sont les appuis n�cessaires pour installer une archive dans une universit� ou dans un laboratoire?
Quelle strat�gie proposer pour remplir rapidement une archive?
Quelle strat�gie pour inciter les autres universit�s et les autres laboratoires � implanter � leur tour un serveur d'e-prints?
Launching an archive
The launching of an open archive has to face many obstacles among which technological and financial issues are not the most serious. The group shared experiences and analyzed the main obstacles and made some proposals.
What are the main obstacles to the development of OAI archives ?
Most scholars are not aware of the scholarly communication crisis. As they need to publish in prestigious reviews to gain academic rewards they overlook the fact that self archiving gives their papers a much larger exposure and that OAI is an answer to the serial pricing crisis.
In many disciplines, the term � pre-print � is synonymous with � poor quality paper � or � dangerous � for its lack of control. As most archives provide a large amount of pre-prints they are disregarded. The term � e-prints � that includes both pre-prints and post-prints ought to be used.
No institutional support
How to start ?
How to support these archives ?
Institutional support from universities, libraries associations, laboratories
Financial support (grants, budget?)
How to fill the archives ?
By showing scholars
and the head of institutions the benefits: increased visibility for
publications and consequently gain in reputation for the institution, rapid
dissemination of the work.
The measure of the impact of a publication could be achieved by introducing
OAI system tools that count the number
of downloads and number of times the article is cited. In some disciplines a validation status could be implemented (showing the number of steps of
the institutional validation process for each paper)
By making scholars aware of their rights to keep their copyright and to negotiate the right to self archive and making them aware of the possibility to publish in new free access periodicals that leave all rights to researchers
By adopting a specific strategy according to the nature of the document from the easiest to the hardest :
- Uploading existing documents posted on institutional websites
- Posting dissertations and working papers
- Self archiving pre prints and post prints published either with OAI-friendly editors or with OAI-unfriendly editors but this would require negotiation
- Archiving published documents after having checked copyright status or after negotiating a right to self archive with the editor
How to develop OAI in French-speaking countries?
Translating and distributing all noteworthy documents such as FAQs, SPARC's papers
Launching a list and a newsletter and creating a French-speaking website dedicated to OAI progress and new initiatives
Creating in as many universities as possible a web page dedicated to explaining OAI, with a link to the main francophone website
Using the internal � bulletins �, discussions and conferences to inform staff, scholars and students
Creating a French-speaking website dedicated to OAI progress and new initiatives.