Sherpa\/RoMEO website<\/a> \u2014a service that shows the open-access and self-archiving policies of journals and publishers. The university is currently developing functionality for archiving preprints and raw research data.<\/p>\nThe University of Campinas (UNICAMP) has amassed more than 155,000 documents in its institutional repository since 2015, and has logged around 7.8 million downloads in that time, including 1.4 million downloads by foreign users. \u201cWe\u2019ve also created a Journal Portal at UNICAMP that provides a one-stop, open-access source for the university\u2019s full suite of publications,\u201d says Valeria Martins, who manages the library system.<\/p>\n
The Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (UNIFESP), which has five-years\u2019 worth of scholarly articles in its repository, is launching a new strategy to expand its current collection of 24,500 open-access articles (of which 21% were produced as part of FAPESP-funded research programs), 11,000 master\u2019s dissertations, and 7,000 doctoral theses. Within the year, researchers will be given the option to deposit documents into the repository themselves\u2014items are currently harvested and archived automatically. \u201cRepositories are an important platform for faculty to showcase their work, and for universities to report on their research,\u201d says Maria Eduarda dos Santos Puga, who oversees the library network at UNIFESP.<\/p>\n
Large universities keep well-organized repositories that play an important role in centralizing and disseminating their scholarly output and storing research data. The University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) has recently introduced incentives for researchers to archive copies of the articles and documents they author in a repository operated by the USP Agency for Academic Information Management. The goal is to make the knowledge generated by the university freely accessible on the web. Jackson Bittencourt, the Agency\u2019s technical director and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB), says the initiative will support researchers in making their articles promptly available for download, preferably immediately after publication. This is often prevented by some journals\u2019 embargo or preprint-only policies. \u201cWe want USP researchers to become more familiar with open access,\u201d says Bittencourt.<\/p>\n
USP has 20% of its available research archived in an institutional repository, where users have access to 32,000 theses and 47,000 dissertations. Many of the articles authored by researchers affiliated with the institution are published in a collection of 183 journals produced by USP institutes and schools, containing 90,000 open-access papers. But the university\u2019s open-access policy is fairly recent, and only 41,600 papers by USP authors that have been published in other journals are currently available in the repository. The institution hopes to expand its collection of deposited articles through a process that is hassle-free for authors. \u201cIf a researcher indicates that a paper has been published, we will have digital functionality in place to automatically obtain and archive a copy,\u201d says Bittencourt.<\/p>\n
Open access routes<\/strong>
\nCreating repositories is among the avenues available to the open-access movement, an effort to provide free online access to scholarly publications. Open access has two primary pathways. One is the gold road, in which publishers provide access to articles as soon as they are published, at no cost to readers\u2014in most cases costs are defrayed through article processing charges (APCs) paid either by researchers themselves or by agencies or universities. Most open-access journals in Brazil do not charge APCs. The second is the green route, in which researchers self-archive a copy of an article originally published in a closed journal\u2014either the final, reviewed manuscript or a preprint. The two pathways are mutually supplementary: an author who cannot afford to publish open access can choose a closed journal that permits depositing their paper in a repository, making it open access.<\/p>\nThe gold route has gained momentum in recent years as publishers increasingly incorporate this pathway into their business models. \u201cThe green pathway is very much dependent on public and institutional policies putting pressure on researchers to self-archive their work,\u201d says Abel Packer, head of the open-access journal library SciELO Brasil. The use of repositories has seen global expansion in recent years, driven by a move by funding agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health in the US, to require researchers who receive funding to deposit copies of the articles they publish in a repository. \u201cThe move has in some cases been met with resistance from researchers, who choose to publish in open-access journals fearing that citations to articles deposited in repositories will not be aggregated into official statistics. This can be avoided by including a reference to the final version of the published article in the manuscript available in the repository,\u201d says Packer.<\/p>\n
FAPESP has recently updated its open-access policy to require authors of research papers deriving from Foundation-funded projects and grants to either publish them in open-access journals or allow them to be archived in a public repository. The policy puts no constraints on researchers\u2019 freedom to publish in a journal of their choice. Nor does it require publication in open-access journals, with or without APCs. Authors who choose to deposit their articles in an institutional repository must do so as soon as the paper is accepted for publication, or as otherwise permitted by each journal\u2019s restrictions. \u201cWe recommend that university libraries instruct authors to notify them by digital means whenever a paper is submitted, and to promptly submit a copy of the preprint or postprint along with bibliographic details,\u201d the Foundation’s scientific director, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, told Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em>. \u201cThe library handles the process from there, depositing the version permitted by the publishers in the repository.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universities are encouraging researchers to store copies of their articles in institutional repositories available to the public","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":299810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[215],"coauthors":[98],"class_list":["post-319527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policies-st-en","tag-scientometrics","keywords-open-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319534,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319527\/revisions\/319534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319527"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=319527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}