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Sustainability and innovation in scholarly communication
By Kathleen Shearer
Sustainability - Implies a holistic approach to addressing problems that takes into account multiple dimensions including ecology, society and economics, recognizing that all of these dimensions must be considered together to find lasting prosperity
Innovation - the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs
The access problem
Bid deals lock-ins
Slide from Stéphanie Gagnon, Université de Montréal Libraries (and thanks to Richard Dumont and Vincent Lariviere)
5Slide from Laura Czerniewicz presentation at OR 2016 in Dublin
But it’s not just problem of access…
The participation problem
Juan Pablo Alperin: http://jalperin.github.io/d3-cartogram/
The pressure to publish in "luxury" journals
encourages researchers to cut corners and
pursue trendy fields of science instead of
doing more important work.
“Today, academics from Ecuador try to walk
under a journals culture that will have little
impact on the knowledge of our reality and,
instead, will have high impact aimed at
satisfying external markers and personal
egos.”
Translated from Spanish by Dominique Babini
Fernando Carrión, FLACSO
“La academia revistera” 12/April/2014
“Openness is not simply
about gaining access to
knowledge, but about the
right to participate in the
knowledge production
process, driven by issues
that are of local relevance,
rather than research
agendas set elsewhere or
from the top down”
Leslie Chan
The other problems…
YES!
The top five most prolific publishers account for more than 50% of all papers
published in 2013.
Former President of Elsevier clearly delineates the fact that the publishers' power lies in their ability to make "kings” out of researchers(Jean-Claude Guédon)
Sir Timothy Gowers “perverse incentives”
It’s a vicious cycle
Research evaluation and P&T decisions
based on IF and high citations
Cultivate research projects that are hot topics and of global
interest
Publish in English in a
prestige journal
Enjoy fame, fortune, and fawning by
colleagues and others
Receive more funding for
more research
A solutionTo reposition the institution (and the library) as the centre of a scholarly communications and a
global knowledge commons
Lorcan Dempsey’s “Inside-out library”
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• The traditional library was built on an "outside-in" model: information materials were brought to the institution and made available for use.
• But, our environment has now changed. We live in an age of information abundance and transaction costs are reduced on the web. This makes the locally assembled collection less central. At the same time, institutions are generating new forms of data—research data, learning materials, preprints, videos, expertise profiles, etc.—which they wish to share with others.
These need to be managed and disclosed, as an "inside-out" perspective becomes more interesting.
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MIT Future of Libraries Report
We see repositories as the tools to actualize this vision
Repositories are nodes in a larger network, contributing their collective contents to a global knowledge commons on top of which value added services can be built.
Dual mission:
1. “Showcase” and provide access to institutional research
2. Nodes in a global knowledge commons21
Next Generation Repositories Working Group (launched in April 2016)
Eloy Rodrigues, chair (COAR, Portugal)
Andrea Bollini (4Science, Italy)
Alberto Cabezas (LA Referencia, Chile)
Donatella Castelli (OpenAIRE/CNR, Italy)
Les Carr (Southampton University, UK)
Leslie Chan (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada)
Chuck Humphrey (Portage, Canada)
Rick Johnson (SHARE/University of Notre Dame, US)
Petr Knoth (Open University, UK)
Paolo Manghi (CNR, Italy)
Lazarus Matizirofa (NRF, South Africa)
Pandelis Perakakis (Open Scholar, Spain)
Jochen Schirrwagen (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Daisy Selematsela (NRF, South Africa)
Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada)
Tim Smith (CERN, Switzerland)
Herbert Van de Sompel (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US)
Paul Walk (EDINA, UK)
David Wilcox (Duraspace/Fedora, Canada)
Kazu Yamaji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Draft Conceptual ModelDraft conceptual modelBy Rick Johnson, Notre Dame University, United States
“Vague but interesting…”
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Open peer review
Recommender systems
Standard usage statistics
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By Petr Knoth, Open University, UK
To support these services, we need to improve the functionality of repositories
-To be of, not just on the web-Global interoperability (exposing content in a standardized way)-Pro-active repositories-To support development of value added networked services
Next Generation Repositories
Our vision involves more that just articles
All the valuable products of research should be shared!
The case of a distributed, public
infrastructure
• It can better support the needs and of diverse regions, disciplines and languages
• Redundancy is a safeguards against failure
• Not at risk be commercial buy-out
• Places the library at the centre
But, a distributed approach is more challenging in terms of a common vision, coordination and branding
What we need to achieve the vision?
1. Address the issues of journal-based impact measures
2. A plan to incremental shift of money away from big publishers
3. Invest in the “inside our library” + value added network services
4. Promote widespread interoperability, alignment and international buy-in!
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30Australasia, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Latin America, South Africa, United States
Let’s work together
It’s time to act or we will be left behind
Thank you!