Alma Swan SPARC Europe Key Perspectives Ltd Enabling Open Scholarship IGeLU Conference Oxford 1517 September 2014 Spirit or soul The Subversive Proposal 27 June 1994 Recommended authors post their papers on anonymous ftp sites ID: 562008
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How subversive! And how it takes to subvert ...
Alma SwanSPARC EuropeKey Perspectives LtdEnabling Open Scholarship
IGeLU
Conference, Oxford,
15-17
September 2014Slide2
Spirit or soulSlide3Slide4
The Subversive Proposal27 June 1994
Recommended authors post their papers on anonymous ftp sitesarXiv started in 1991 And still flourishes ...Slide5
PROGRESSSlide6
What happened nextWorld Wide WebSlide7Slide8Slide9Slide10
Levels of OA in the UKSlide11Slide12
Why so low after
20 years?Authors:Lack of awareness
Lack of understanding
Overdose of misunderstandings
Fear of repercussions
Reward systems in academia entrench conservative
behaviour
Glacial pace of academic adoption of the
WebSlide13
Why so low after 20 years?
Publishers (some of them!):HindranceObstructionObfuscationFUDSlide14
Why so low after 20 years?
Libraries:Hooked into Big DealsBudgets frozen Policy made elsewhereVarying levels of buy-in to the notion of Open AccessPreoccupation with irrelevant issuesSlide15
What have been the drivers?
Advocacy, including gathering an evidence base of the benefitsInfrastructure:Technical (repository networks)New publishing venuesPolicySlide16
Advocacy
Benefits to authors:Visibility, usage, impactPart of the new modus operandi for the digital scholarBenefits to institutions:MissionVisibility, usage, impactMonitoring and assessmentCompetitive intelligenceOutreach, ROIFundingBenefits to funders:Monitoring and assessmentReturn on investmentSlide17
InfrastructureSlide18Slide19
Infrastructure
Print > electronicHyperlinkingLinked open data(?)InteroperabilityWork in progressDeposit IDLicensingPreservationetc, etcSlide20
OA infrastructure for EU research
Authors
Institutional repositories
OpenAIRE
Readers
Google, etc
HARVESTSlide21
Open Access policies
222 institutional policies44 sub-institutional policies90 funder policiesEurope:
H2020
Rules have a mandatory OA policy
Recommendation to Member States (2012
)
US: OSTP directive to federal agenciesSlide22
Open Access policiesSlide23
PROMISESlide24
Areas of promise
PolicyBooks (and the humanities in general)DataInstitutional responsibilityAuthor interest and activitySlide25
Policy
Growing in numberMandatorySupported by good implementation Convergence, alignmentSlide26
Humanities
Huge increase in interestLots of new developmentsOA journalsOA monographsSlide27Slide28
Humanities
Huge increase in interestLots of new developmentsOA journalsOA monographsFunder and institutional initiativesInstitutional publishing (university presses)Covering costsTechnical initiativese.g hypothes.isSlide29
Open Data
Massive interestFunders developing policy to support Open Data implementationLots of infrastructure alreadySlide30Slide31
Open Data
Massive interestFunders developing policy to support Open Data implementationLots of infrastructure already The basis of open scholarship in the futureSlide32
POTHOLESSlide33
Recent survey of libraries
Technical problemsQualitative screening of OA publicationsIndexing of OA publicationsManagement of Open Access costsLong-term preservation of OA collections Promotion of Open Access resources
Miriam Lorenz , IFLA WLIC, 2014 [libraries in Germany, UK, USA]Slide34
Issues and challenges
Humanities (some areas):esp. the future of university presses (and their relationship with libraries)Data: Preservation and curation
Development of appropriate data management practices
Licensing practices and copyright
Sustaining the new system
Institutional responsibilitySlide35
Institutional responsibility I: Responsible licensing
Do not sign agreements with publishers that limit OA or obstruct its aims:Govern Green OA: research results belong to the research community, not to service industriesTDMSlide36
Institutional responsibility II
: Paying for Open AccessManage your APC fund to benefit OAEncourage author responsibilityMake sure you get valueDon’t let the Big Deal morph into the Big OA Deal
Encourage attempts to deconstruct the publishing process and pay for the component servicesSlide37
Institutional responsibility
III: Sustaining the Open Access systemService infrastructure Many began as projects Sustainability plans not always robustMay not be workable in the longer term
First steps being taken to address this issue
Libraries
(and funders)
have roles Slide38
“It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge and to diffuse it, not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures, but far and wide
.” Daniel Coit Gilman
First President, Johns Hopkins UniversitySlide39
Thank you
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