Digital Access to Cultural Heritage and Scholarship in the Czech Republic

ABSTRACT. This article looks at selected digital library projects in the Czech Republic, with a focus on two main domains of activity: digital preservation of cultural heritage, and providing digital access to scholarship through institutional repositories. With regard to digitization of national cultural heritage, the Czech Republic, largely through the leadership of the National Library, has established itself as one of the most active countries in the region. With regard to providing access to Czech research and scholarship, although there is quite a bit of interest among research institutions and universities, institutional repositories are currently in the exploratory stage and have not yet been widely implemented. Copyright laws are repeatedly cited by Czech librarians as one obstacle to improving access to digital resources in both spheres of activity.     

Czech Open Access for the Humanities and Social Sciences

ABSTRACT

This article examines the current state of Open Access for the humanities and social sciences in the Czech Republic. Since the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January of 1993, the Open Access movement in the Czech context remains understudied. This article focuses on the current state of affairs of Open Access in the Czech Republic within the European Union framework for Open Access.     

Business Faculty's Attitudes: Open Access,Disciplinary Repositories,and Institutional Repositories

Business faculty were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, and open access journals. The majority of faculty was unaware of institutional repositories at their local institutions. However, approximately one third are using disciplinary repositories and are receiving encouragement from their departments to do so. Likewise, many faculty are unaware of open access journals. Open access journals are seen as lacking prestige and being lower quality publications in the business field due to the lack of prestigious publishers and editors. Many faculty believe their prestige would fall if they published in an open access journal.     

国外实现开放存取可持续发展的举措

经济、法律及技术壁垒制约开放存取的可持续发展。国外机构开放存取可持续发展的一些举措,如在开放存取经营上努力实现收入大于支出、争取各相关机构的资助、对获得资助的开放存取项目必须对外义务开放等值得我国借鉴。     

机构知识库研究回顾与展望

概述了国内机构知识库研究的现状,理清了国内机构知识库研究的发展脉络,指出其存在的有关问题,探讨了机构知识库研究的发展方向。     

“I've Never Heard of It Before”: Awareness of Open Access at a Small Liberal Arts University

Small colleges and universities, often late adopters of institutional repositories and open access initiatives, face challenges that have not fully been explored in the professional literature. In an effort to gauge the level of awareness of open access and institutional repositories at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (UWEC), the authors of this article surveyed fellow faculty members at this small liberal arts university before the 2011 Open Access Week. The survey results reveal that faculty members at UWEC do not share the same level of awareness concerning open access and institutional repositories that was found in the existing scholarly literature.     

Quality of Looseleaf Treatises:

Organizational features added to a treatise by its publisher can significantly enhance or diminish that book's usefulness. Some publishers claim they have specially designed their looseleaf treatises as ready-reference tools. Twenty-six looseleaf treatises will be analyzed to determine what organizational features the publishers have provided and to discover how these contributions affect the overall quality of the books.     

我国机构库发展对策探讨

论述我国发展机构库的现实意义,介绍机构库在我国的发展现状,在分析我国发展机构库的优势和主要障碍的基础上提出发展对策.     

开放访问的绿色通道:OA档案库的进展概述

介绍开放访问的绿色通道——OA档案库的发展现状及未来发展的可能模式.其中包括:OA档案库的类型;政府、学术机构、出版商对待OA档案库的态度和政策;OA档案库对作者和出版商的影响;实现的工具及其维护费用,目前OA档案库的数量,存储在其中的文章的数量,在各国的分布状况;档案库未来的可能发展模式;等等.     

An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management

The extent to which scholarly literature can be openly accessed and freely downloaded on the Internet varies greatly depending on the discipline. This article assesses the current state of open access in the fields of business and management. Google was used to search for free versions of articles from a sample of articles published in early 2009 in a broad array of business and management journals. Free versions of 36% of the articles included in this study were identified, available from a wide variety of websites, including repositories, author profile pages, open access journals, and more.     

日本机构知识库存缴后印本论文的著作权策略研究

介绍日本的开放获取策略数据库SCPJ和科学技术振兴机构（JST）为支持各个学会制定的开放获取策略,从中分析日本机构知识库对后印本论文的著作权和开放获取策略,并阐释其对我国机构知识库实行开放获取的启示。     

国内外机构知识库研究比较分析

通过检索国内外数据库中有关机构知识库的文献,从研究时间、研究机构和研究者、研究内容、研究方法、研究成果形式等方面对国内外机构知识库的研究特点进行分析,探讨其不同之处,以期找出未来机构知识库研究的方向。     

基于机构仓储的自存储政策述评

针对研究者自存储到机构仓储意愿低的问题,介绍研究者所属机构、研究出资方和出版商制定的自存储政策,分析政策三方尊重、协商与合作的关系。总结自存储政策制定应该注意的问题,包括：自存储政策的强与弱问题;存储位置唯一问题;存储与出版的关系问题;版权问题;存储与开放的时间问题等。     

大学图书馆网站的多模式综合评价研究

通过对五种网站评估模型的有效综合，提出多模式的综合网站评价方法。文中从网站设计、网站技术和网站价值三个方面入手，构建了一套多模式的综合网站评价体系。还通过对此评价体系的分析，将其应用于国内大学图书馆网站的评价，比较全面的对大学图书馆网站进行了多模式评价，并得出一些有效的结论。     

Fine-Tuning the Institutional Repository: Evaluating the Self-Archiving Behavior of Researchers in Music

While self-archiving gains more traction as a means for scholars to make their research freely available, a perception persists that certain disciplines in the humanities lag behind the sciences in this regard. This article investigates the rate of self-archiving by scholars contributing to the top journals in the field of music, a discipline that traditionally falls within the humanities, although research in the field is highly interdisciplinary and draws heavily on multiple scientific fields. The contributors to these journals come from a range of background and interests, and represent colleges and universities from six continents.     

Philpapers Breaks New Ground for Discipline Based Repositories

This is the first in a series of columns intended to report on the progress of the Open Access (OA) movement in scholarly communication, chart the changes OA brings to the methods libraries and library users employ to acquire information, and estimate the value of OA materials for undergraduate library collections. At this point, it is not clear how long commercially published academic journals will be a sine qua non for college libraries. However, it is already obvious that undergraduate instruction can benefit from the scholarship available through Open Access at the same time that our libraries need the budget relief such resources offer. Librarians who work with undergraduates have very good reasons to stay current with the range and quality of OA content as well as with the best means of providing access to that body of scholarship. In addition, faculty teaching undergraduates depend upon librarians to keep them informed about changes in the information environment. With that in mind, “Out in the Open” is an attempt to introduce readers to the people, resources, and trends identified with the rise of Open Access.     

Open Access to Research Outputs—Institutional Policies and Researchers' Views: Results From Two Complementary Surveys

This paper presents the results of two complementary surveys undertaken in 2008 as part of a wider project investigating the effects and impact of open access to research outputs in the UK. The institutional view, from a survey of academic librarians, is compared to researchers' perceptions and practices. Researchers were largely unaware of their institutions' policies with regard to open access, or whether they had an institutional repository. Reasons for making research outputs available on open access, or not doing so, were sought, and the role of open access material as a research resource investigated. The surveys found that many researchers maintained a suspicion of open access publications, both as authors and as users of scholarly material, together with a degree of ignorance about open access and the role of institutional repositories. This suggests that a degree of culture change may be needed, as institutions develop repositories with a view to future research assessment requirements, and more funders adopt open access mandates for the outputs from research which they fund.     

科研人员对OA知识库的认知程度和使用现状分析

通过在线问卷和数据分析,发现中国科研人员对开放存取概念和OA知识库的认知程度有所提高,但利用OA知识库存储学术论文还是一件尚未成熟的行为,并未成为多数中国科研人员的习惯。通过独立T检验和单因素方差分析,进一步发现目前中国科研人员对OA知识库的认知程度和实际使用情况在某种程度上受到诸如性别、年龄、身份/职称和学科等控制变量的影响。     

Why So Many Repositories? Examining the Limitations and Possibilities of the Institutional Repositories Landscape

Academic libraries fail to take advantage of the network effect because they manage too many digital repositories locally. While this argument applies to all manner of digital repositories, this article examines the fragmented environment of institutional repositories (IR), in which effort and costs are duplicated, numerous software platforms and versions are managed simultaneously, metadata are applied inconsistently, users are served poorly, and libraries are unable to take advantage of collective data about content and users. In the meantime, commercial IR vendors and academic social networks have shown much greater success with cloud-based models. Collectively, the library profession has enough funding to create a national-level IR, but it lacks the willingness to abandon local control.