Collaborative Approach to Open Access: Experience from Bioline

International

Leslie ChanAssociate DirectorBioline International University of Toronto Scarborough

Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development

Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-10 2007

What is Bioline InternationalObjectivesOperationPartnershipFunding and supportMajor Outcomes

What is Bioline InternationalObjectivesOperationPartnershipFunding and supportMajor Outcomes

What is Bioline International?What is Bioline International?Electronic aggregator of full

text journals from developing countries

OAI data providerServe as open access

platform for journals without the necessary infrastructure

A South-North collaboration

Electronic aggregator of full text journals from developing countries

OAI data providerServe as open access

platform for journals without the necessary infrastructure

A South-North collaboration

Bioline InternationalBioline International Development - using open source

software and open standards

Advocacy - Aims to influence scholarly communication practices and access to research literature

Research - Will open access improve the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries? How effective are research libraries in enabling international collaboration?

Development - using open source software and open standards

Advocacy - Aims to influence scholarly communication practices and access to research literature

Research - Will open access improve the visibility and impact of journals from developing countries? How effective are research libraries in enabling international collaboration?

Core PartnersCore Partners

EPT, UK

CRIA, Brazil http://www.cria.org.br

UT, Canada

Funding SupportFunding SupportUniversity of Toronto

LibrariesDepartment of Social

Sciences, U of T at Scarborough

CRIA - In-kind Technical Support

Open Society Institute, Information Access Program

Many Volunteers!!

University of Toronto Libraries

Department of Social Sciences, U of T at Scarborough

CRIA - In-kind Technical Support

Open Society Institute, Information Access Program

Many Volunteers!!

Publishing PartnersPublishing PartnersScholarly and Scientific

societies from 17 countriesResearch centers in biology

health, agricultureuniversity-based publications All non-profit and willing to

experiment with free online access

Most are supported by local subsidies and international aids

Scholarly and Scientific societies from 17 countries

Research centers in biology health, agriculture

university-based publications All non-profit and willing to

experiment with free online access

Most are supported by local subsidies and international aids

New journal issues are published, electronic files are created

BIOLINE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL CONVERSION PROCESS

Links to .JPEG images for each article are added & checked. XML abstract files are created, HTML is cross

checked with printed copy or PDF of original, links

Original electronic (or scanned) files are converted to HTML. Standard formatting is applied, copyright & journal information is added to each file.

ARTICLE CONVERSIONTables, equations, photos and figures from each article are made into .JPEG images for easily linking & retrieval from HTML documents.

IMAGE CONVERSION

FINAL TOUCHES & CHECKING FOR ACCURACY

Bioline staff contact publishers, gather & organize electronic files from the publisher directly via email, through postal mail, download from journal websites or scan

FILE GATHERING & ORGANIZING

Completed journal issues are uploaded to the CRIA server in Brazil, checked for accuracy and publishers & users are notified of the new issue online.

UPLOAD & CHECKPDF versions of journal articles are deposited to the U of Toronto’s Digital Repository. All related files are archived by Bioline staff on CD-Rom for safe keeping.

TSpace & File Archiving

PDF

HTML

XML

Species2000

Species2000

DSMZDSMZ

HTML Full Paper Repository

HTML Full Paper Repository

XMLConfig Files

XMLConfig Files

Abstracts Repository

(XML)

Abstracts Repository

(XML)

OAIPMH

OAIPMH

OAIPMH

OAIPMH

OAIPMH

PDFFull Paper Repository

PDFFull Paper Repository

Aux Files(XML/HTML)

Aux Files(XML/HTML)

ControlerDatabase

ControlerDatabase

Species NamesDatabase

Species NamesDatabase

AbstractsDatabase

AbstractsDatabase

OAIHarvester

OAIHarvester

OAIHarvester

OAIHarvester

OAIHarvester

HTML

HTML

HTML

HTML

abstract

journals

homepage

fullpaper

HTML

HTML

PDF fullpaper

BiolineInternational

Website

CRIA

Website

U of T

Digital Repository

UTDocument

tagging and formatting

UTDocument

tagging and formatting

Meta-data exchange and dissemination partners

Meta-data exchange and dissemination partners

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org/

The eGranary Digital Library - http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

OAIster.org - http://www.oaister.org/ Scientific and Technical Information System -

http://sist-prototype.sist-sciencesdev.net/ University of Toronto Libraries - T-Space - https:

//tspace.library.utoronto.ca/

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - http://www.doaj.org/

The eGranary Digital Library - http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/index.htm

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/

OAIster.org - http://www.oaister.org/ Scientific and Technical Information System -

http://sist-prototype.sist-sciencesdev.net/ University of Toronto Libraries - T-Space - https:

//tspace.library.utoronto.ca/

ConclusionsConclusions OA is increasing the visibility, accessibility

and impact of some of the journals from developing countries

Collaboration is key and low cost Open linking is crucial Need to develop value-added services

with OA databases and open standards Alternative and more inclusive measures

of research impact is emerging but OA is the foundation

Need to educate funding agencies about the benefits of OA

OA is increasing the visibility, accessibility and impact of some of the journals from developing countries

Collaboration is key and low cost Open linking is crucial Need to develop value-added services

with OA databases and open standards Alternative and more inclusive measures

of research impact is emerging but OA is the foundation

Need to educate funding agencies about the benefits of OA

Thank you!

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