Open Access Movement and Development in China

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Open Access Movement and Development in China

• Liu Xiwen
• National Science Library
• Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC)
• Nov. 2006

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Outline

• 1. Movement in China
• 2. Chinese scientists attitude
• 3. Recent Advancement
• 4. Looking into the future

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1. Movement in China

• Dec. 2003 President of CAS (Chinese Academy of
  Sciences)Lu Yongxiang signed the Berlin
  Declaration
• On May 24, 2005, Lu Yongxiang and Chen Yiyu,
  President of NSFC ( National Natural Sciences
  Foundation of China) ,signed the Berlin
  Declaration representing CAS and National Natural
  Science Foundation of China respectively.

Prof. Chen Yiyu
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Coordinator Dr. Zhang Xiaolin

• June 22-24, 2004 International Workshop on
  Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to
  Scientific Data, Beijing China
• On behaved the Conference, LCAS (now the NSLC)
  held a sub-session on digital libraries and open
  access in scientific literature, participated by
  major Chinese libraries

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International Conference on Strategies and
Policies on Open Access to Scientific
Information June 22-24, 2005 Beijing

• Co-organized by Library of CAS and OSI/eIFL
• 23 scholars and practitioners from 9 countries,
  together with Chinese participants attended.

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• At the meeting, academia Mr. Hu Qiheng, former
  vice-president of CAS, have presented a keynote
  speech, Open Access to Scientific Information in
  China.
• 24 Nov. 2005, Mr. Hu contributed a paper- open
  access is the responsibility of scientists in ,
  in Guangming Daily, to appeal for the supporting
  to the open access from Chinese scientists, to
  call for the supporting from the public.

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• 22-25 Oct. 2006
• 20th International CODATA Conference Scientific
  Data and Knowledge within the Information Society
  had been held in Beijing, and will present the
  Global Information Commons for Science
  Initiative and appeal for the scientific data
  sharing and others.

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• The main movement of open access involved three
  parts
• Open access Journal publishing That will be
  presented deeply by Prof. Mr. Zu Guangan
• Open access websites and pre-print portals
• Institutional repository or open access journals
  mirror site

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2. Chinese Scientistsattitudes

• In 2005, NSLC supported a program to survey the
  OA in Chinese scientists. To know the attitudes,
  opinions and suggestions of scientists on OA,
  hereby to make policy suggestions to the
  government and associated institutions to promote
  OA in China.

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Outline the survey project and results

• Outline
• Duration March-May, 2005
• Questionnaires sent 257,received 223, response
  rate86.77
• Populations scientists from 16 institutes in
  CAS, subject range as the table.
• Questions 28
• Interviews 22 scientists

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Results

• Most of Chinese scientists know little about OA
  journals or archives, but their attitudes are
  pro. Those are depend on the scientific fields,
  most scientists in life science and physics are
  known the OA.
• 59.2 respondents are prepared to publish in OA
  journals, while 8.1 have published in OA 30.5
  are not prepared to publish in OA journals 2.2
  no responses.
• Among those who have published in OA, scientists
  from life sciences rank most(19.5),scientists
  from physics rank second(10)
• Among those who are prepared, researchers in
  engineering rank first(76.6)
• Among those who are not prepared to publish in
  OA, researchers in chemistry rank
  most(44),scientists from Mathematics rank
  second.

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• Opinions on the paper quality of OA
• Above 80 responses intended or not opposed the
  OA journals and only 1 responses acclaim they
  will not use the OA journals
• 50.2 responses claimed that the paper qualities
  of OA are same as the traditional journals paper
  (Printed and Peer review Journals)
• 12 responses believed that the paper qualities
  of OA are higher than the traditional journals
• 54.3 responses have referred the OA paper during
  their research work and cited OA papers in their
  academic papers.

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3. Recent Advancement

• According to the investigation, there are about
  13 OA journals in China. (Detailed by Prof. Zu
  GUangan)
• Acta Pharmacologica Sinica www.chinaphar.com
• Chemical Journal on Internet www.chemistrymag.org
  
• Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
  www.chineseplantscience.com
• Chinese Medical Journal www.cmj.org
• Zoological Research http//159.226.149.44/
• Insect Science (formerly Entomologia Sinica)
  www.entomol-sinica.org/
• Chinese Chemical Letters www.imm.ac.cn/ccl.asp
• Cell Research www.cell-research.com
• Journal of Plant Ecology www.plant-ecology.com/
• Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica www.plantsystematics.
  com/index_en.asp
• Biodiversity Science http//www.biodiversity-scie
  nce.net/
• Chinese Bulletin of Botany www.chinbullbotany.com
  /szq/index.htm

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• China have set up about 6 open access website or
  pre-print archive. And there are several other
  small and subject OA system, such as the
  pre-print system of Math institute, Peking Univ.,
  pre-print system of Math Department of Fudan
  Univ., High Energy Physics pre-print system of
  Shandong Univ.
• Now the running systems are
• China pre-print service system
  http//prep.istic.ac.cn/eprint/index.jsp
• Science Paper Online http//www.paper.edu.cn/
• QIJI E-print www.qiji.cn/
• Etc.

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• China pre-print service system
• Built in 2004 by ISTIC and NSTL
• Including 5 Categories natural science,
  agriculture, medical science, engineering and
  technology, library and information science

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• China Paper Online
• Built in 2003 by the  Center for science and
  technology development of the ministry, MOE

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• Qiji e-print
• A comprehensive open access pre-print website
• By now posted a total of 8767 articles.

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• The Research about the Open Access
• Policies and institutions on OA in China, funded
  by NSFC, 2006-2008
• We have funded a pilot project on the
  institutional repository of CAS and will propel
  it in CAS
• The Open Access mirror site of USA is
  under-planned

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• In 2004, NSLC funded the research on the key
  scientific fields and institutional knowledge
  platform----institutional repository. To preserve
  the paper published in peer-reviewed journal and
  conference, web published paper, preprint and
  postprint, and other research report, data or
  technical report etc.
• Dspace and its Chinese version

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4. Looking into the future

• Open Access will be greatly developed in China in
  recent.
• More achievement will appear in recent years due
  to the more ST investment.
• More and more scientists will accept the open
  access concept in China.
• The research institutes have pay great attention
  on the IP and institution repository.
• The open access journal will be the pioneer in
  the OA movement.
• The archive sites are just at the beginning, the
  contributed papers is very limit.

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