open access and its enemies j. britt holbrook assistant director center for the study of...
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Open Access and Its EnemiesJ. Britt Holbrook
Assistant DirectorCenter for the Study of InterdisciplinarityResearch Assistant Professor, Philosophy
University of North Texas
Futures of Academic Publishing: UNT's 4th Symposium on Open AccessMay 30, 2013, Dallas, TX
The Open Society and Its Enemies
• anti-closed
•anti-totalitarian
• liberty
• liberalism
The Specter of Neoliberalism
Free at Last?
What do we mean by ‘freedom’?
Negative and Positive Freedom
Negative freedom means freedom from ….
Positive freedom means freedom for ….
Emphasizes individual liberty
Sees all limitations on individual liberty as evils, only some of which are necessary
Emphasizes some sort of ‘positive’ account of liberty
Sees some limitations on individual as opportunities to maximize self-determination
‘Open’ Access?
Negative freedom means freedom from ….
Positive freedom means freedom for ….
Whether to publish in OA journal should be up to individual researcher.
OA mandates of any sort are not necessary, just evil!
OA leads to greater impact!
OA mandates will allow researchers to maximize their impactand allow science and society to benefit most from research.
Open Access as a Sociotechnical Imaginary
OA is an attempt to enlist technology to co-produce a future for scholarly communication that we would like to see realized.
Ultimately, OA rests on a positive view of freedom.
Tactically, in order to implement OA …
We should increase our own awareness of – and sensitivity to – instances in which individual liberties are impaired by OA.
We need to realize and take to heart that many researchers – and manymembers of society – have a negative view of freedom.
We also need to find ways to describe OA as getting rid of other waysin which individual liberties are impaired.
Open Access as a Sociotechnical Imaginary
We also need a strategy, a long-term vision and goal, that helps overcome resistance to OA stemming from a negative view of freedom.
We need an account of impact, one that is co-produced by researchers and those we intend to impact.
We also need to introduce a critical spirit into the OA movement, one thatought to replace mere enthusiasm or enthusiasm combined with technologicaldeterminism.
We need to envision a republic of knowledge that includes the value ofnon-domination as a check on positive freedom.
Visions of Impact
Visions of Impact
Visions of Impact
What do these numbers actually mean?
Visions of Impact
56 Indicators of ImpactH-index
G-index
Universal H-index
HM-index (standardizes
co-authorship)
Peer review
Place of publication
# of pubs
# of citations
Book sales
Article Product downloads
Website hits
Media mentions
Quotes in media
Quotes in policy
Developing a metric
that people use
Rabble rousing
Muckraking
Lawsuits
Arrests
Cited in testimonials
Town hall meetings
Social networking contacts Increased diversity Degree of ID/TD Degree of transformativity ID/TD rigor CSID advisors Special problem requests with CSID faculty Internationalization Grant $ Audience size @ CSID events Success of faculty fellows Esteem of senior fellows Success of graduate / UG presentations & grants Posters?Impact factor of journals in which CSID publishes Number of Angry letters from important peopleMention by policy makers
Meetings with important ppl Invitations to present Invitations to consult Invitations to evaluate Protests/demonstrations/ sit-ins Coining/debunking phrase or buzzword Trending in social media Esteem surveys Trust/reputation Rankings Blog mentions Student surveys Student testimonials Faculty recommendations Faculty award/prize Textbooks Influencing curriculum creation Participating in public education programs
Thanks!