Events
Events
2013
 
The 5th SPARC Japan Seminar 2013
"Winds of Change: The Past, Present, and Future of Open Access in Asia"
Date&Time February 7, 2014 / 13:00-17:15
Place National Institute of Informatics, 12F 1208 & 1210 meeting room
Outline
This seminar is intended to share information and explore the possibility of cooperation in future in two ways, namely, the Open Access Journal (OA publishing) and Institutional Repository (self-archiving) in Asia. By sharing information on current issues concerning OA in different levels and perspectives ranging from the researchers’ awareness on OA, various activities being initiated by the library communities, condition of OA publishing, and government policies in different countries and regions within Asia.
Program
Moderator:Yumi Kitamura (Kyoto University Library)
Time

Title

Speaker

13:00-13:10

Opening Greeting/Introduction

[Abstract]

Shigeki Sugita
(Chiba University Libraries/DRF)

13:10-14:00

OA Activities in Korea

[Abstract]

Choi Honam
(Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

14:00-14:50

OA & IR in 2012; The University of Hong Kong & Greater China

[Abstract]

David Palmer
(The University of Hong Kong Libraries)

14:50-15:00

Break

15:00-15:50

Open Access in Southeast Asia: Unresolved Issues and New Opportunities

[Abstract]

Paul Kratoska
(NUS Press, National University of Singapore)

15:50-16:10

The "Asian" Future of Open Access

[Abstract]

Syun Tutiya
(National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation)

16:10-17:05

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
*Shinya Kato
(University of Tsukuba Library)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Choi Honam
(Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
*David Palmer
(The University of Hong Kong Librarie)
*Paul Kratoska
(NUS Press, National University of Singapore)
*Syun Tutiya
(National Institute for Academic Degrees and University)
*Koichi Ojiro
(National Institute of Informatics)

17:05-17:15

Closing

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Speaker
Yumi Kitamura (Kyoto University Library)

Yumi Kitamura is currently Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Library after serving as an assistant professor as well as the head of the library at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the Kyoto University. Her research interests are on history of Southeast Asian Studies through the analysis of libraries and the contemporary history of Chinese Indonesians.

Shigeki Sugita (Chiba University Library/DRF)

An executive board member of the Digital Repository Federation and a member of the Japan Institusional Repository Committee.

Choi Honam (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)

Ho Nam Choi is a General Director of Information Service Center at KISTI (Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information). As an honorary job, he also had been working as the 1st Chairman of Korea Special Library Association until the end of March 2010, and was acting as a vice President of Korea Library Association during July 2009 through June 2011. At the information service center, they have been carrying out 1) management of national library consortium (KESLI) for joint purchasing of electronic information, 2) building a Korea Science Citation Database that supports expanded searches and evaluation of research performances, 3) running of NDSL (National Digital Science Library) service, 4) constructing of databases for domestic and foreign scholarly information, patent, and S&T related information.

David Palmer (The University of Hong Kong Libraries)

David Palmer is an Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies & Technical Services and Principal Investigator for The HKU Scholars Hub at The University of Hong Kong, where his career spans over 23 years. Since 2005, he has developed and managed the institutional repository, “The HKU Scholars Hub”, and the many issues of access, repository population, and bibliometrics that surround The Hub. By his design, the Hub has now transformed into a Current Research Information System (CRIS). He is a founding member of the Hong Kong Open Access Committee, and was instrumental in having HKU become signatory to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in November 2009.

Paul Kratoska (NUS Press, National University of Singapore)

Paul H. Kratoska is Publishing Director for NUS Press at the National University of Singapore. A former editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, he serves on editorial advisory boards for a number of journals in East and Southeast Asia. His column “Publishing Matters” is a regular feature in the Asian Studies Newsletter put out by the US Association for Asian Studies.

Syun Tutiya (National Institute for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation)

Syun Tutiya has been involved in the library community in Japan since 1998, when he was appointed University Librarian at Chiba University, Japan, where he began to teach philosophy, logic and congnitive science in 1982. After his term in that capacity, he has continued to work with Japanese university libraries and librarians in consortial e-licensing negotiations, copyright negotiation with copyright holders and publishers, promotion of institutional repositories and open access in different hats. In 2011, he left Chiba University to join the The National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE), a higher education quality assurance agency in Japan, where he researches on online education and international student mobility as well as contributes to the improvement of the quality of higher education in Japan.

Shinya Kato (University of Tsukuba Library)

Mr. Kato started his career at University of Tsukuba Library in 1976. After that, he worked 8 national university libraries in Japan and now Deputy Librarian, University of Tsukuba Library. In addition, he has been a member of Steering Committee of JUSTICE since 2012 and chairperson of newly established Committee for the Promotion of Institutional Repositories under the Cooperation Promotion Council set up by NII and the Japanese Coordinating Committee for University Libraries. He is the author, with Kenji Koyama, of Learning Commons: Reshaping Academic Library (2012).

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Abstract
Introduction
(Shigeki Sugita)

Mr. Sugita will give an overview of Open Access in Japan in the past decade.

OA Activities in Korea
(Choi Honam)

OA related activities have been being carried out by several sectors such as Korean government, research institutes, universities, libraries, academic societies, etc. Government sector mostly concentrates on policy making and public data services under the policy that all of data produced by public organization should be open and accessible by the general public. Universities and research institutes are interested in subject (SRs) and institutional repositories (IRs). Most of their IRs are being operated by their affiliated libraries, instead subject repositories (SRs) by small number of university professors and related subject experts. Most of university and research institute IRs are at the initial stage in terms of both operations level and volume of archived content. Major projects to promote and enhance the open access movement and information sharing activities nationwide are being initiated by two national information centers, KISTI and KERIS. Open Access Korea (OAK) project has been being carried out for the past 5 years by KISTI with the outcomes of development of scores of OA journals (25), development and installment of IR systems (23), development of PDF2XML workbench, and development of OA portal and central service system. KERIS has developed and installed 256 dCollection systems for the domestic universities for the purpose of open access and sharing university produced dissertations, and has started Korean Open CourseWare (KOCW) services recently.

OA & IR in 2012; The University of Hong Kong & Greater China
(David Palmer)

Since the 1990s, the open access (OA) movement has gone from strength to strength. In Hong Kong and China, OA is now firmly on the agenda of several institutions and finding enthusiastic response in many others. This presentation will describe the knowledge exchange (KE) initiative at The University of Hong Kong that led up to an OA mandate of sorts, and an institutional repository (IR) that grew into a Current Research Information System (CRIS); the open source platform of which is now used by several other institutions around the world. It will survey Hong Kong SAR, China PRC and Taiwan ROC for OA publishing, OA mandates, and IR development.

Open Access in Southeast Asia: Unresolved Issues and New Opportunities
(Paul Kratoska)

Open Access lacks institutional support in Southeast Asia. Scholars have few resources to pay article processing charges, and institutional repositories in the region would require substantial development to become a significant resource. Major universities have money that could be used to support open access publishing, but they prioritize publication in established first-tier journals with high impact factors. Many universities have departmental journals that do not depend on subscription revenue and could be converted to open access, but such publications would require substantial upgrading to attract high quality submissions. At present there is a danger that even as Asian scholars access a growing literature, they will find it increasingly difficult to contribute to that literature.

The "Asian" Future of Open Access
(Syun Tutiya)

Several currently detectable issues that would confront the scientists, researchers, librarians and other stakeholders as regards scholarly communication in the Asian region, where the countries' scholarly and scientific productivity is growing while the recognition of, experience in and infrastructure for scholarly communication has been generally lacking, are discussed. Those issues include the inevitability of open access publishing as opposed to repository archiving, the possibility and effectiveness of "mandates" in the area and the real concern about who should and could pay.

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