copyright and academic publishing shaping the future kevin l. smith duke university libraries
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Copyright and Academic Publishing
Shaping the Future
Kevin L. SmithDuke University Libraries
Turn and face the strange
“Changes” and opportunitiesDramatic realignment in academic publishing?
Denied by many publishers Survey shows faculty satisfaction
Satisfaction may be shallowOpportunities being missed
What is the role of copyright?
If the future seems frightening,
The best way to cope is by taking control of it.
The irony of 1989
In 1989, CompuServ made home internet connects possible with a commercial e-mail server
The web was born March 12, 1989, when Tim Berners Lee wrote a proposal on “global hypertext” for CERN
Copyright formalities were finally eliminated completely.
Digital has broken copyrightAlways makes copies
First sale doesn’t workEducation exceptions less helpful
Contracts determine a lot
Line between commercial and non-commercial is blurred
Remix culture frightens creators
Instant copying & distribution frightens rights holders.
Making a photocopy-era law fit in the age of Instagram?
Even the Copyright Office is talking about “The Next Great Copyright Act.”
Would Congress makethe situation betteror worse?
Course readings and the GSU lawsuit
Possible solutions
An expanding interpretation of Fair UseCourts have been moving in this directionLots of flexibility, but little certainty
Scholars retaining rightsPublish in ways that ensure reuse rights
For yourself AND your colleagues
HathiTrust, Google BooksHere we are seeing that expansive reading of fair
usePurpose is VERY important.
What can we learn from the elephant?
Courts strongly favor transformative purposes
Fair use is the one place where the law can adapt successfully to new technologiesFair use supports good teaching & research
Opportunities for transformation Indexing and accessDigital humanities are a particularly strong case
Publishing and DH
New projects defy traditional publishing
Dual publication?Twice the work for same credit?
Looking for new ways to give creditFor a uniquely useful data setFor a pedagogically helpful visualizationFor a digital reconstructed document, inscription,
site.
Text and Data Mining
License provisions for TDM
Access only through approved API.
No download of research corpus.
Explain research to vendor.
Limitations on distribution of “research output.”
Fees?
What is a publication?
Traditional restriction on what kinds of “making scholarship public” count.Article & book v. “lesser” publications
Translations, reviews, op-eds, blogs, curated data sets
Digital humanities, data visualizations, video projects offer boundary cases of publication
Increasingly, scholars are making “unpublishable” works public!
MOOCs – © and Open Access
© has limited role for materials in MOOC lecturesWhen transformative purpose is clearHarder for materials distributed to participants
MOOCs as new opportunityConstrained by © & traditional publishing?Open access materials VERY important!Lower costs for traditional students?
Open access – shaping our own future
OA opportunitiesMore eyeballs
Greater impact
Unexpected readers
Opportunity to track new metrics
Greater control over the scholarly environmentAcademic freedom!
P&T and other OA challenges
Diverse business modelsAdaptation and transition
MisperceptionsPeer review & vanity publishing “Predatory publishing”
The challenge of the new, esp. in P&T process
How can we present and evaluate Alt Metrics
Steps toward a solution, libraries
Move from commodity to non-commodity focusBe part of the transition
Developing skills as information management consultationsMore of our work will be customized
Focus on the transition in how we spend money It may cost more before it costs less.
Steps toward a solution, authors
Share your work as widely as possibleManage your copyrightsBe aware of your rights when publishing; negotiateKnow your open access options; share your dataDocument & present your alt-metrics
Support your library’s strategiesTransition to more open resources
May require cancellations
