Contextualizing Policy Developments in Open Knowledge in South Africa
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Dealing in Disruption
Contextualizing Policy Developments for Open Knowledge in South Africa
National Library – Ex Libris Annual Meeting 19 August 2015 Cape Town
Contextualizing Policy Developments in Open Knowledge in South Africa
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How do we orient ourselves?
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We live on a huge continent
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but have a tiny share of scientific output
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Science Research - 2001
http://www.worldmapper.org 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan).
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Geographically?The nearest landfall?
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Where are we?
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Brazil with its SciELO platform is now the second biggest producer
of OA journals in the world
Alperin et al., 2008, Open access and scholarly publishing in Latin America: ten flavours and a few reflections revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/article/view/269/167
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With support from the Department of Science and Technology, the Academy of Science runs an open access journal
platform, Scielo South Africa
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Who were our traditional trading partners?
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Photo – SA Tourism
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A long trade history between gold-producing S and E African communities, Arabia and India
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Ghandi’s printing press on Tolstoy Farm near Durban reached across continents..
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Colonial history and neo-colonial heritage?
Politically?
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..more rigid IP regimes and the neo-colonial prohibition against parallel
importation, plus USPTO Special 301 reports targeting India have kept SA’s gaze
firmly North…
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The liberation struggle was driven substantially by student movements, was reliant on protest publishing, music and art…
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Post-apartheid, two strands of policy – liberation rhetoric, Afrocentric, public benefit…
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And neo-liberal policy driven by the Mineral-Energy Complex, which the ANC accommodated, resulting in an economistic approach to
publication and a market approach to research impact…
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…as the Minister of Higher Education and Training confirms
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The results were perverse…
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We have tended to base our scholarly publishing policy on the potential for
increased impact in ‘mainstream’ ‘international’ journals..
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…a competitive system in which the rules are weighted agains the developing world…
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… the real problem has
to do with promotion and reward systems…
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..particularly our reliance on the ISI Impact Factor…
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… and the sums of money paid from government to universities for
publication in ‘accredited’ publications..
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Real impact?
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…a system in which ‘mainstream’ (i.e publishable in the index)
= ‘relevant to the English-speaking
global North’
Guédon, J. Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science, 2008. In Como gerir e qualificar revistas científicas (forthcoming , in Portuguese). (In Press) [Book Chapter].
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… the other two-thirds of the world is ‘local’.
No known copyright restrictions
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Is this a case of fatal tunnel vision?
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…or is OA providing a solution?
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The beginning of Open Access, in Budapest in 2002…
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…OA policy has moved steadily into the mainstream…
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…was taken up slowly in South Africa, but was seen as an answer..
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...with a vision of the power of regional open networked science…
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… and a human rights approach more
appropriate to our constitution…
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Our universities, in particular, should be directing their research focus to address the
development and social needs of our communities. The impact of their research
should be measured by how much difference it makes to the needs of our communities, rather than by just how many international
citations researchers receive in their publications.
Blade Nzimande, SA Minster of Higher Education and Training, Women in Science Awards. 2010
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Is this STILL a case of tunnel vision?
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…we offer technical platforms as the solution but the scaffolding is lacking
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.. In a situation in which we need to pay attention to digital librarian skills, the
availability of technical skills and infrastructure..
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… in institutions hammered by successive policy changes…
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…including two decades of World Bank and IMF denigration of the value of
higher education as a driver of economic growth and social development
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In the UK in particular, OA has become a spat between the green..
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The green route…
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and the gold…
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… or the ‘gold route’ of open access journal publishing…
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In SA the SciELO approach of publicly funded and resourced platforms has paid dividends…
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SciELO and SciELO South Africa have been incorporated into the
Web of Science
Alperin et al., 2008, Open access and scholarly publishing in Latin America: ten flavours and a few reflections revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/article/view/269/167
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… but there is a problem…
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Formal publishing is only the tip of
the iceberg -
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…at the same time as we seek development impact for our research production…
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Michelle Willmers: Willmers_Altmetricsimpact_2012-1.pdf
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Something we have in fact delivered on for a long time…
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.. through high quality, rigorous, development-focused research units not
properly recognised in the research reward systems…
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…although in South Africa we have demonstrated the power of open social
science book publishing through the Human Science Research Council…
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…whose books were downloaded in their hundreds every month, were used as educational resources, and
were downloaded in every country in the world, except Greenland
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… this has now been undone by an adminstration that thinks tht
scholarly publishing makes money in Africa…
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The development of Open Education Resources is now being supported by
government in Open and Distance Learning
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The answer from Open UCT was ‘Open Everything’…
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… which might also provide answers to the chronic problems of
cross-border trade in books and publications…
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Eve GraySenior Research Associate
IP Law UnitUniversity of Cape Town
Blog: www.gray-area.co.zaTwitter: graysouth
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ReadingsSeeking Impact and Visbility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/2310The full list of SCAP reports can be found on Open UCT: open.uct.ac.za and search on scap. SciELO South Africa: www.scielo.org.zaGuédon, J. Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science, 2008. In Como gerir e qualificar revistas científicas [Book Chapter].
Links The True Size of Africa:http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg; http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography