Presentation on Open Access and Institutional Repositories in Agricultural Sciences: The Case of Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) made at the 2nd IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, 15 - 17 July 2009, Accra, Ghana
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
Esta apresentação visa a fornecer uma visão geral do estado do acesso aberto na África, considerando tanto a rota dourada quanto a verde. Explora o nível de desenvolvimento dos repositórios institucionais, bem como dos periódicos de acesso aberto no continente. Também destaca os principais desafios que os editores enfrentam na publicação de seus periódicos na África.
This presentation aims to give an overview of the status of Open Access in Africa, considering both the Green and Gold routes. It explores the level of development of Institutional repositories, as well as Open Access journals on the continent. It also highlights the major challenges that editors face in publishing their journals in Africa.
Esta presentación tiene como objetivo dar una visión general de la situación del Acceso Abierto en África, teniendo en cuenta tanto las rutas Verde y Dorada. Se explora el nivel de desarrollo de los repositorios institucionales, así como las revistas de Acceso Abierto en el continente. También se destacan los principales desafíos que enfrentan los editores para la publicación de sus revistas en África.
The changing landscape of scholarly communication: presentation to the NFAIS ...Keith Webster
Presentation on the changing relationships between research libraries, publishers, researchers and technology, and the impact of government policy on scholarly publishing and open access.
Esta apresentação visa a fornecer uma visão geral do estado do acesso aberto na África, considerando tanto a rota dourada quanto a verde. Explora o nível de desenvolvimento dos repositórios institucionais, bem como dos periódicos de acesso aberto no continente. Também destaca os principais desafios que os editores enfrentam na publicação de seus periódicos na África.
This presentation aims to give an overview of the status of Open Access in Africa, considering both the Green and Gold routes. It explores the level of development of Institutional repositories, as well as Open Access journals on the continent. It also highlights the major challenges that editors face in publishing their journals in Africa.
Esta presentación tiene como objetivo dar una visión general de la situación del Acceso Abierto en África, teniendo en cuenta tanto las rutas Verde y Dorada. Se explora el nivel de desarrollo de los repositorios institucionales, así como las revistas de Acceso Abierto en el continente. También se destacan los principales desafíos que enfrentan los editores para la publicación de sus revistas en África.
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Immersive informatics - research data management at Pitt iSchool and Carnegie...Keith Webster
A joint presentation by Liz Lyon and Keith Webster on providing education for librarians engaged in research data management. This was delivered at Library Research Seminar VI, at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in September 2014. The presentation looks at a class delivered by Lyon at the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool in 2014, and the related needs for immersive training opportunities amongst experienced practicing librarians, using Carnegie Mellon University's library, led by Webster, as a case study.
Open Educational Resources: Experiences of use in a Latin-American contextTecnológico de Monterrey
The movement of Open Educational Resources (OER) is one of the most important trends that are helping education through the Internet worldwide, and it’s a term that is being adopted every day in many educational institutions.
eLA 2011 "learning portals in practice", Dar es Salaam@24mai2011Ilias Hatzakis
A ppt: "learning portals in practice", explaining the "Organic-Edunet" open repository of educational resources on organic agriculture and agroecology, presented at the e-learning Africa Congress, Tanzania 2011.
Open Access Initiatives and Challenges in Kenya: UniversitiesCIARD Movement
by Ms. Jacinta Were (Consultant - Information Management & Capacity Building, Kenya) at the Forum on Open Data and Open Science in Agriculture on 15th June 2015
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Kevin Gardner, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research, University of New Hampshire, described UNH's decision to implement a research information management system and the lessons learned.
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Presentation on "Open Access Publishing: Views of Researchers in Public Agricultural Research Institutions in Zambia" made at the 2nd IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, 15 - 17 July 2009, Accra, Ghana
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Presentation on Juggling copyright and open access in the 21st century: A South African case study made at the 2nd IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, 15 - 17 July 2009, Accra, Ghana
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Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet)iaaldafrika
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PowerPoint presentation on GAINS activities presented at the IAALD Africa Chapter session at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
PowerPoint presentation introducing the IAALD Africa Chapter presented at the Joint Conference of IAALD, AFITA and WCCA, 24 - 27 August 2008, Atsugi, Japan
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Open Access and Institution Repositories
1. Open Access and Institutional Repositories in
Agricultural Sciences: The Case of Botswana
College of Agriculture (BCA)
IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, Accra Ghana, 13 - 17 July 2009
Kebede Hundie Wordofa
&
Poloko Ntokwane-Oseafiana
2. Introduction
Agricultural sector is faced with some major challenges:
• increasing production in a situation of dwindling natural resources
necessary for production such as water shortages,
• declining soil fertility, climate change and rapid decrease of fertile
lands due to urbanization and population growth.
• Agricultural information spread over different agencies, notably
farmers, universities, research institutes, extension services,
commercial enterprises, and non-governmental organizations.
• poorly documented information and hard to access; and indigenous
knowledge on good practices and lessons learned about innovations
is generally not captured .
3. Open Access
What is Open Access
• Unrestricted access to scholarly information
• advocates the principle of making scholarly literature available to the public at no
cost removing price barriers such as subscriptions, licensing fees
• removes the financial, technical and legal barriers
• makes the literature accessible online free of charge
• The Budapest Open Access Initiative defines OA as follows:
By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet,
permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the
full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or
use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers
other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only
constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this
domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right
to be properly acknowledged and cited (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002).
4. Why Open Access (AO)
AO overcome obstacles:
“Price Crisis”
rising price of journals subscriptions and
electronic databases
“Permission Crisis”
constrained licensing terms and software
locks
5. Why Open Access (AO) …
Low cost of publishing on the Internet
Ease of accessing information online
The average prices of journals and the number of new
journals have risen much more faster than the library
budgets.
Internet Culture - Information should be free
Increasing legal restrictions on licensing and use of print
and digital resources by corporations (since the 1990s).
6. Benefits of Open Access
• OA benefits authors,
researchers,
lecturers and students,
libraries,
universities,
publishers,
funding agencies,
governments
and citizens.
7. Major Vehicles for Disseminating
Open Access Literature
Preprint Services
Open Access Journals
Institutional Repositories
8. Institutional Repositories
Definition
Crow (2002) defines IRs as “digital collections capturing and
preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university
community.” Crow (2002) further explains that it is “a digital archive
of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and
students of an institution and accessible to end users both within
and outside of the institution, with few if any barriers to access.”
defines IRs as “digital.
IRs are collections of research output or information generated
particularly by academic or research institutions and stored in a
digital format that can be preserved and made accessible to end
users through the Internet.
9. Contents of institutional repositories
• post-prints
• Peer-reviewed articles
• Book chapters
• Monographs
• Conference proceedings
• Unpublished papers such as pre-prints
• Working papers
• Thesis and dissertations,
• Reports
• Video recordings etc.
11. Benefits of IR cont..
• Besides, the benefits of IRs to research institutions in developing
countries are numerous. According to Chan, Kirsop and
Arunachalam (2005), these benefits are as follows:
• Access to international research output
• International access to research generated in developing countries
• Promotion of institutional research output, providing new contacts
and research partnerships for authors
• Improved citation and research impact
• Provision of usage statistics showing global interest of institutional
research
• allows improved access to subsidiary data
• Facilitating peer review.
12. Some Tools for Finding OA
Literature
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Launched in May 2003. As of February 2009,
there were 3875 journals in the database, of
which 216 journals are in the fields of agriculture
and food sciences.
Users can browse journals by title or subject and
search for them by keyword.
Institutional Archives Registry - As of 25 April,
covers 421 archives Users can browse archives
by country, archive type, or software, or search
for them by keyword.
13. Some Tools for Finding OA
Literature….
OAIster - A project of the University of Michigan
Digital Library Production Service, providing
open access to over 20 million records from 1082
contributors as of March 2009 (e.g., preprints, journal
articles, dissertations, etc).
Google Scholar - Launched in Nov 2004
Indexes the full-text (including the cited
references) of articles in fee/subscription based
scholarly journals on the Internet as well as open
access literature.
Many others on the web
14. Challenges facing institutional
repositories
• Lack of faculty involvement
• Lack of awareness of availability of different
mechanism for distributing and accessing
research info.
• Lack of promotion by institutions on the use of
Internet
• Copyright issues
• Lack of an IR start-up policy process
• Content harvesting and digitization
15. Choosing IR software solutions
Factors to consider when choosing IR software are:
cost
Staffing
Support and training
Development of system and
Hardware requirements
Three main IR software solutions:
• Open Source Software
• Commercial or Proprietary Software
• Vendor Hosted System.
16. Software Advantage Disadvantage
Open Source -It is free promotes No support , no training, time
collaboration and knowledge consuming in metadata,
sharing . systems admin and
-No marketing is involved programming skills required,
more technical staff ,
-Flexible and can be tailored to
development undirected
match individual institutional
requirements.
-used by institutions with
minimal resources
Commercial or Proper support and training, Not free, pay for license and
proprietary Less technical skills,
development directed, input of maintenance
customers
Vendor of Host no hardware to purchase, Institutions do not have control
over it.
install and maintain.
not as staff intensive in terms
of set up, customization,
configuration and ongoing
administration and
maintenance, backups and
redundancy are the vendor’s
responsibility
17. Implications of OA for developing
countries
• Overcoming problems of inability to afford
subscriptions to journals
• Overcoming inability to integrate national research
into global knowledge base
• Expanded access to global scientific literature
• Access to both published and unpublished
literature
• Provision of a platform to e-journals
• Research more exposed
• Easy dissemination of research output.
18. Numbers and percentages of IRs by continents
20; 2%
58; 4%
Africa
77; 6%
South America
146; 11%
Australasia, Carribean and
628; 48% Central America
Asia
North America
375; 29% Europe
19. IR of Botswana College of
Agriculture (BCA)
Background information
was established on 31st May 1991.
is a parastatal under the Ministry of Agriculture and an
associate institution of the University of Botswana.
offers programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
Has five academic departments, namely;
• Animal Science and Production,
• Basic Sciences,
• Crop Science and Production,
• Agricultural Economics Educations and Extension, and
• Agricultural Engineering and Land Planning.
20. Vision and Mission
Its vision is to become “a world-class institution in
teaching, research and service in agriculture and
related fields.”
The College’s mission is “to produce high quality
graduates, generate suitable technologies and
provide advisory services to improve agriculture
productivity through innovative teaching, relevant
research, and customer-driven service”
(Botswana College of Agriculture).
21. Institutional repository of BCA
Established an IR in 2007 with the following objectives:
• Provide access to college output
• Preserve the scholarly work in digitization format
The Development Phases of the BCA IR
• Project Proposal
• Develop a service definition
• identify collection
• liaise with teaching staff and administrative staff
• Assemble a team
• assessment of current staff and skills
• Acquire/install software/hardware
• research and choose a software
• download, install and configure
• digitize collection
• Setting up different collections
• Market the service
• Test
• Launched officially in
• October 2008
23. Figure 5 The screenshot of the college journal in the BCA IR.
.
24. Figure 4 The screenshot of the college volumes of the journal in BCA
IR.
25. Figure 4 The screenshot of table of contents of BCA journal in IR.
26. Figure 6 The screenshot of the college journal full text in the BCA IR.
27. Lessons Learned
• It needs support from management, IT staff, faculty,
librarians, etc to succeed
• Do a pilot project to teach staff, test the software, and
gain more support through demonstration
• Demonstration to relevant people through
presentations convinces them to support - “seeing is
believing”
• Contents harvesting, digitization and creation of
metadata is time consuming and huge task
• Budget for staff time
• Train staff on metadata
28. Conclusion
• Researchers and academicians in developing countries face the impact
of financial constraints to access scholarly literature due to the escalating
costs of journals and proprietary databases.
• Besides, the research output of developing countries does not get a
wider audience, hence less impact globally.
• Agriculture is the most important sector that supports the majority of
population in developing countries.
• The sector has its own challenges that need to be overcome through
research and development (R&D) that needs adequate, relevant, and
timely information.
• Much of agricultural research output and indigenous knowledge in
developing countries are not well documented and not easily accessible.
• Concerned institutions and governments need to do more to make their
research output accessible to the public through OA and IRs.
• By so doing, institutions will be able to collect, store and disseminate
their research work.