Open MindOpen Access

The Development of Resource sharing in China

Shuyong Jiang AAS 2007Boston

March 24, 2007

Open Access Repositories in China

• Open Access Repository of Library and Information Science 图书馆情报学开放文库（http://dspace.nlc.gov.cn/）

• Qiji wenku 奇迹文库（http://www.qiji.cn/eprint/）

• Sciencepaper 中国科技论文在线http://www.paper.edu.cn/index.html

• the China Preprint Service 中国预印本服务系统 http://prep.istic.ac.cn/eprint/index.jsp

OA--Recent Activities

• 2003, 2004—Berlin Declarations

• 2005—Proposal of OA Project• 2005—International

Conference on Strategies and Policies for Open Access to Scientific Information

Status of OA in China

• No OA journals• Two Institutional Repositories (Hong

Kong)• Only 25 articles in Open Access Repository

of Library and Information Science • Qiji has about 3220 items• Preprint is much smaller in scope for

Chinese materials • Sciencepaper Online is 500 items monthly

Issues of the Chinese OA Repositories

• Focal point of the repository

• Copyright information• Persistent access

　中国预印本服务系统完全按照文责自负的原则进行管理。系统不拥有文章的任何版权或承担任何责任，在系统中存储的文章，作者可以自行以任何方式在其他载体上发表。中国预印本服务系统鼓励作者将预印本文章投递至传统期刊发表，一旦文章在传统期刊上发表，作者可以在预印本系统中修改该文章的发表状态，标明发表期刊的刊名和期号，以方便读者查找。 http://prep.istic.ac.cn/eprint/help.jsp

The  copyrights  of  papers published on this site will be certificated to the authors. And the papers  published on this site are still legibly permitted  to submit to a traditional  academic journal. The opinions  in the papers published on  this site are  purely the opinions of the authors, not the opinions of the site.To avoid international copyright conflicts, it is suggested to the authors that those papers, intentionally to be published in an international  journal that requires the originality of a paper, be published on this site in a form of detailed summary so as to get an early intellectual rights of the new findings.

--http://www.paper.edu.cn/index.html

Alternative Economic Model of OA

• property of being non-rivalry • property of partial excludability • Information sharing vs. “free

riding”

Incentives for OA• The factor that there is no or little

cost for sharing information• The good feeling of contributing to

the community• The reputation gained in a given

information community –indirect benefit

Paradox of OA

• Collective efforts–Stimulation–Enhancement

Paradox of OA—cont.

•Community–Scrutiny –Recognition

Government’s Role in OA

• The Gov. funded = OA?• Providing funding• Set policies to encourage OA

Open Access

• Philosophy• Action• Development • Reality

Thank You!