A seminar on the strategic advantages of open access for university researchers and their institutions. The University of the Western Cape, Open Access Week, October 2009

2. Open Access as a tool for researchers

3. Eve Gray Honorary Research Associate Centre for Educational Technology University of Cape Town http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray-area

5. The aim in Open Access week - African knowledge, for Africa, from Africa, widely accessible...

7. “ Over the last few decades, some things have not changed. There’s been no significant break in relations of knowledge production between the colonial and post-colonial eras. African universities are essentially consumers of knowledge produced in developed countries.” Blade Nzimande, UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education 2009

8. Science Research - articles published http://www.worldmapper.org © Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).

10. ... What we do have a lot of is poverty

11. http://www.worldmapper.org © Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan). Human poverty

12. The dilemma for researchers - scholar or public intellectual? Photo: Kudumomo

13. Right now we are driven by reward systems linked to ‘publication counts’.... citation counts,

14. ... behind this is a commercial system seeking ever-stronger IP to ensure control over content for maximum profits.. .

15. Our universities, in particular, should be directing their research focus to address the development and social needs of our communities. The impact of their research should be measured by how much difference it makes to the needs of our communities, rather than by just how many international citations researchers receive in their publications. Speech at the Women in Science Awards, August 2009

16. [There is] the need for an education and training system that fosters the values of social solidarity and caring, in order to confront the ideological companion of neo-liberalism, that of promoting greed and selfishness...

17. Can Open Access help achieve these goals?

19. Information on Open Access

22. How does Open Access work?

24. World map of repositories http://maps.repository66.org /

25. Directory of repositories http://www.opendoar.org /

26. How to have your cake and eat it...

27. The ‘green route’

29. Using repositories to profile a wider range of research

30. Profiling authors

31. Open access journals

32. 4,000 open access journals listed, all peer reviewed and quality controlled

33. ... and listed in the citation indexes..

34. OA journals part of SA national policy

35. Open Access for institutional profiling

37. This approach has proved very effective in profiling HSRC research worldwide

38. Can we conquer the world and create our own vision of what excellence means in South African research?