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University of Pretoria

Open Access & the UP Open Scholarship Programme

Dr Leti KleynManager: Open Scholarship

MERENSKY LIBRARYUniversity of Pretoria

OPEN ACCESS AT UP(i) Policy on University of Pretoria electronic theses and

dissertations (S 4844-46/08) 8 000+ currently in the UPSpace repository

(ii) Policy to provide open access to research papers authored by University of Pretoria researchers (S 4845/08)

10 000+ currently in the UPSpace repository

OPEN ACCESS AT UP

(iii) Institutional Repository 29 909 items

1st in AFRICA | 99th on World Ranking Article alert system (+R40 million) 55%+ post-print success rate

(iv) UP Journals 100% OA

OPEN ACCESS AT UP

(v) Digitisation Centre Scanning of retrospective material

MOU Internet Archive (entire Africana collections)

(vi) APC fund BMC (2011-2014: R2 083 500) | 80 articles APC Fund (2015): 50% APC

(vii) Research Data Management Policy (in process)

BATTLES WITH OPEN ACCESS AT UP

(i) Knowledge and trained staff Repositories managers | Open Scholarship knowledge IT & DuraSpace: Old processes & time consuming Social media tools & eternal marketing (ii) Lack institutional support for journals Funding Status(iii) Goal alignment Copyright

BATTLES WITH OPEN ACCESS AT UP

(iii) APC Funding Expensive No savings on subscription fees Budget cuts National support & policy

(iv) Research Data Management Expensive Lack knowledge & experience National support & policy

“ ”The tipping point for African research innovation will not

be merely the ability to fully access and use the new abundance of global knowledge and ideas but to make

an active and significant contribution to its creation.

Piyushi Kotecha (in Abrahams, et al., 2008)