complicating the question of access (and value) with university press publications
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Marguerite Avery, who is a Research Affiliate in the program, presented the talk below as part of Shaking It Up -- a one-day workshop on the changing state of the research ecosystem jointly sponsored by Digital Science, MIT, Harvard and Microsoft.Her talk focuses on current challenges around the accessibility of scholarly content and on a scan of innovative new models aimed to address them.TRANSCRIPT
Shaking It Up: How to Thrive In – And Change – The Research Ecosystem
Marguerite Avery | Program in Information Science, MIT Libraries
Barriers to Access Price
Time
Format
About University Presses… Mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations charged with
serving the public good by generating and disseminating knowledge
Publish works of of scholarly, intellectual, or creative merit for more specialized audiences
UPs are extensions of their sponsoring institutions
Considered a key node in knowledge and research network of learned societies, scholarly associations, and research libraries
Barrier: Price
OA Advocacy Groups
Authors Alliance
OA Publishing Initiatives (recent)
Knowledge Unlatched
Open Library for the Humanities
Amherst College Press
Oberlin Group / Lever Initiative
research results [Twitter]
draft paper [SSRN]
Conference paper
Journal article
Published book
Research findings
Published content
Barrier: Time
Omg! A ship passing thru the Panama Canal uses 52
MILLION gallons of water! [Twitter]
Environmental impact Panama Canal Watershed – UNESCO
report
“The Machete and the Freighter: Making the Panama Canal Watershed, 1977- 1999”
4S 2009 Conference paper, posted [SSRN]
“Nature as Infrastructure: Making and Managing the Panama Canal Watershed”
Social Studies of Science 42(4)
Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal (MIT Press,
2014)
Barrier: Format
What does content want to be?
Short(er) formats
Existing content
New content
Developing content
Removing all barriers
A recent access experiment from a UP
Cambridge University Press, 2014
