Open Archive Initiatives (OAI)

• The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program.


• What is Open Archive?
• Open archive research literature conatins technical reports, thesis, study reports, published papers, conference reports. Mostly, there are no license limits for readers. As a result, the data can be used for education and other uses for free.


• What is not an Open Archive?
• There are many wrong belives about Open Archives. Open Achive does not abrogate refereeed publishing or publications and also does not decreases the cost or the quality of the publications. In simple words, it presents research results freely to the researchers.


• How to Povide Open Archive
• There are various ways to provide Open Archive. A researcher can include his/her articles copy to an Open Archive or an institutional archive or an Open Archive Periodical. In addition, the researcher can enter the copy of the article in personal or universities department web site. If the article is published in a periodical that requires membership, the article will be accessed by a larger audience. Preserving the articles in an Open Archive or an institutional archive is better than preserving in a personal or a department web site beacuse the it wil be more systematic and organized. In the other hand, other researchers enter their articles in the same archive and the chance to read other arcticels increase. Open Archives and institutional archives are digital collections that are prepared by the research articles authors. The archives, convert each articles matadata in to an Open Archive Initiative compatible format.
• The search engines searchs from updated, universal databases. In 2005, there were almost 40 Open Arcives in Britain. The list of Open Archives in Britain can be found from Southampton Universities Eprints.org. If your association don't have an archive, you can obtain detaild information from this address. Personal Archiving is rapidly growing as an internationa act and some capital owners are planning to centralize their investors articles.
• There is a low expectation of copyright limitation while archiving with periodicals publisher. Detailed information can be gathered from Nothingham Universities SHERPA Project website. Open Archive periodicals are accessed by everyone and they are free refreed periodicals. In most cases, they have been printed and publised. There are authors and universites that request money per page. There are also memberships to access articles. Some of the companies who finances from articles are in BioMed Central website. BioMed Central is a well known Open Archive Publishes which contains more than 100 periodical. Plos Medicine and Plos Biology are other examples. According to authors financial problems, BioMed Central, Plos and other Open Archive periodcal publishers may not reqest for article charge. The charges to publish articles in an open Archive periodical changes according to the open arcivhes. For example, BioMed Central mostly chages 330 Pound per article while Plos charges 1500 (approximate 800 Pound) Dolars. In 2003, according to the agreement with JISC BioMed Central, author chages are not requested from more than 90 biomedical periodicals in Britain. There is a comprehensive Open Archive periodical list according to subjects in Lund University. In the beggeings of 2005, there were 1400 periodicals. Most of the Open Archives Periodicals have impact factor and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)s' Web of Knowledge/Web of Science Service indexes them. On June 2004, there were 239 indexed Open Archive Periodicals.
• Another format of an Open Archive is the hybrid periodicals. Here, as long as the author pays for his/her article, everyone can access his/her article online. As an example, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences charges for $1000 per article to make the article open access.


• Why Should Authors Provide Open Access on Their Works?
• The articles that are archived are more cross-refered than the ones which are not archived. The study JISC is prepared by the Alma Swan Key Perspectives Company and edited by Sara Hassen and The JISC Communications Takımı. You can find the briefing from the address www.jisc.ac.uk/publications.


• Detailed Information and Resources
• JISC FAIR Program http://www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_fair.html
• DAEDALUS ve TARDis Projects http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus and http://tardis.eprints.org
• The ePrints UK Project http://www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk
• Open Archives and Personal Archives
• http://www.eprints.org
• http://www.oaister.org
• http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
• http://romeo.eprints.org
• The Directory of Open Access repositories: http://www.opendoar.org
• Open Archive Periodicals
• http://www.biomedcentral.com
• http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/apcfaq#grants
• http://www.plos.org
• http://www.doaj.org
• Open Archive - Studies of Reference and Effect
• http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html
• http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist1-abstract.html ve http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist2-abstract.html
• www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html
• Other Open Archive Resourses:
• http://www.arl.org/sparc/
• www.arl.org/sparc/soa/#forum
• AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
• Published on April 1, 2008. Open Access Web address: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_openaccess
• Resource: http://www.eprints.org