nasig 2016
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The Power of “Open.”
Heather JosephExecutive Director, SPARCNASIG Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NMJune 11, 2016
Despite the promise of the Internet, the materials we most need the freedom to work with remain largely under restrictive
access, pricing and reuse policies.
We found ourselves with 20th century policies and practices
governing 21st century information.
Enter “Open”
“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to
make possible an unprecedented public good.“
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
“The public good is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-
reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted
access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and
other curious minds.”The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
“Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research,
enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as
useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a
common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.”
-The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
“Open” Access = Immediate Access + Full Reuse
“Open” can provide a solution to a problems, and a lever to create
new opportunities.
Lots of different problems.Lots of different opportunities
This diversity is both a core strength – and a key weakness – of
our initial Open Access efforts.
What problem(s) are we using Open Access to try and solve?
Library budgets & journal prices
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All are absolutely legitimate, and important...
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And it gets even more challenging when we consider parallel community efforts:
This has also meant that different stakeholders have pursued
different strategies...
The “Green” Road.
The “Gold” Road.
Using Open Licenses.
Pursuing Policies.
Again, All are absolutely legitimate...
A decade and change later…
We have made lots of progress. But - only a fraction of the
communities we want to reach have fully “bought-into”
Open Access.
Why?
Independent consultant interviewed stakeholders:
libraries, researchers/faculty, students, policy makers, funders, publishers, and
members of the public to get their (honest!) input.
What do we know now that
we didn’t know when we started? What could/should we be doing to address those
things?
1. We need to Look at the Whole Board.
“The Open Agenda”
Open Access to Articles….Open Access to DataSharing CodeOpen Source SoftwareOpen NotebooksOpen Educational ResourcesOpen Peer ReviewAssessments Valuing OpenOpen...
2. We Need to Clearly Define our End Goal.
Setting the default to “open” in research and education.
3. Why “Open?”
Not just “Open” for Open’s Sake….
…But Open “in Order to...”
Opening access to research articles in order to…speed up progress towards curing Parkinson’s disease.
Opening access to research data in order to...prevent a Zika pandemic.
Opening access to textbooks in order to...make college more afordable to all students.
4. We need to Reward “Open” in Meaningful Ways.
Need large scale efforts to
develop new principles, incentives, mechanisms, metrics for evaluation and assessment…
…And we also need smaller, local efforts to lay the foundation for
change…
How many of your institutions ask any questions about Open Access,
Open Data or OERs in their evaluation, promotion and tenure
forms?
All of these are large challenges.
But Every Challenge is an Opportunity.
In recent speeches, the Vice
President of the United States has floated these potential
policy priorities:
•Make research articles openly available on day one. •Openly share research data. •Incentivize researchers to share their data. •Measure progress by improving patient outcomes, not just publications.
Not “if” – but “how.”
Open in order to:
Create a system for sharing knowledge that is optimized to serve the needs of humanity.
