The Digital Academia Power Struggle

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The Promise of Institutional Repositories“If all scholars’ preprints were universally available to all scholars by anonymous ftp (and gopher, and World-wide web, and the search/retrieval wonders of the future), NO scholar would ever consent to WITHDRAW that preprint from the public eye after the refereed version was accepted for paper "PUBLICation." Instead, everyone would, quite naturally, substitute the refereed, published reprint for the unrefereed preprint. Paper publishers will then either restructure themselves (with the cooperation of the scholarly community) so as to arrange for the minimal true costs and a fair return on electronic-only page costs (which I estimate to be less than 25% of paper-page costs, contrary to the 75% figure that appears in most current publishers' estimates) to be paid out of advance subsidies (from authors' page charges, learned society dues, university publication budgets and/or governmental publication subsidies) or they will have to watch as the peer community spawns a brand new generation of electronic-only publishers who will.”

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The Promise of Institutional Repositories

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Universal Green makes all articles OA, thereby making subscriptions unsustainable, forcing publishers to cut needless costs and downsize to managing peer review alone. No more demand for a print edition. No more demand for an online edition. All access-provision and archiving offloaded onto the global network of institutional OA repositories.

- Stevan Harnard - 2013

Lawson, Stuart; Meghreblian, Ben; Brook, Michelle (2014): Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK

universities. figshare.http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1186832

Retrieved 21:45, Oct 27, 2015 (GMT)

UK universities

5 years (2010 – 2014)10 Publishers

£431,246,323$875,718,046.35

http://shiny.retr0.me/journal_costs/?year=2014&inst=19,22,38,42,59,64,80,95,136

http://bit.ly/UKpublishing

Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127502. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0127502

“According to the Chefs, we’re looking at a year of mergers and acquisitions, the continuing growth of open access both in number of opportunities and in scale, the publication of data and objects (like multimedia, application code, etc.), and more start-ups.”

FUNDERMANDATES

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“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research

their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has

directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of

federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better

account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.”

February 22nd 2013

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“On the Open Access and Open Data fronts, the plan released today reiterates U.S.'s firm commitment to opening access to articles resulting from publicly-funded research, citing the language from the 2013 OSTP Directive on this subject. Additionally, the plan calls for robust attention ensuring that data — including code, applications and technologies — generated from publicly-funded research be made openly accessible as well. This is a strong nod to an eventual full U.S. Open Science Agenda.”

“But taxpayers who are paying for that research will want to see something back. Directly – through open access to results and data. And indirectly – through making science work better for all of us.

That’s why we will require open access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research. That’s why we will progressively open access to the research data, too. And why we’re asking national funding bodies to do the same.”

Neelie Kroes.

Vice President for the Eurpoean Commission

Valen, Dan; Blanchat, Kelly (2015): Overview of OSTP Responses. figshare.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1367165Retrieved 16:10, Aug 14, 2015 (GMT)

• Government• Funders• Societies• Publishers • Institutions• Academics

Who are the stakeholders and what is their motivation?

Josh Sommer – Chordoma Foundation

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All research data collected with the use of SSHRC funds must be preserved and made available for use by others within a reasonable period of time. SSHRC considers "a reasonable period" to be within two years of the completion of the research project for which the data was collected.”

“SSHRC is committed to the principle that the various forms of research data collected with public funds belong in the public domain. Accordingly, SSHRC has adopted a policy to facilitate making data that has been collected with the help of SSHRC funds available to other researchers. Costs associated with preparing research data for deposit are considered eligible expenses in SSHRC research grant programs. Research data includes quantitative social, political and economic data sets; qualitative information in digital format; experimental research data; still and moving image and sound data bases; and other digital objects used for analytical purposes.

“CIHR-funded researchers are also required to deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data into the appropriate public database immediately upon publication of research results. They must also retain original data sets for a minimum of five years (or longer if other policies apply).”

1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research

2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research

3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research

4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research

5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research

6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research

The Open Academic Tidal Wave

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Research Data Management – Research Data Dissemination

An interface that sits on top of institutional defined storage

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APIs are essential

Josh Sommer – Chordoma Foundation

Open access is essential

Persistent identifiers are essential

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Persistent identifiers are essential

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Advocacy

Josh Sommer – Chordoma Foundation

Thank you for your time

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