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National harvesting of South African open access repositories
Institutions and researchers can contribute to a national effort to harvest open access content from South African repositories, coordinated preferably by the NRF to increase visibility and accessibility of SA research.
National harvesting of South African open access repositories should be undertaken as a matter of urgency, preferably by the NRF.
Reference
https://www.assaf.org.za/2014/06/05/scielo-sa/
Institutional Open Access repository development (Green route)
Institutions can join a national federation of open access repositories that adhere to shared standards. Support will be provided to institutions in the early stages of setting up their repositories, and a central repository will be maintained for institutions unable to sustain their own.
A federation of institutional Open Access repositories, adhering to common standards, should be established ("Green route"), with resources made available to help institutions in the preliminary stage, this virtual repository to be augmented by a central repository for those institutions which are unable to run a sustainable repository.
Open Access publication funding via per-article charges (Gold route)
Researchers and publishers can access funding support for open access publication through a per-article charge system. This model is linked to publication subsidies for higher education institutions and adapted budgeting practices for other research-producing institutions.
Online, open access ( “Gold route”) versions of South African research journals should be funded in significant part through a per-article charge system (linked in the case of higher education institutions to an agreed fraction of output publication subsidies, and in the case of other research-producing institutions to adapted budgeting practice), but publishers should still sell subscriptions to print copies and should maximise other sources of income to lower the article-charge burden.
