OPENNESS: CONTRIBUTE, ACCESS, USE

Joy KirchnerUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LIBRARY

Outcomes

Openness as a principle

Open access

Public access

Other connected movements: open source, open education, open data, open science

What do we mean by open?

Open to contributions and participation

Open and free to access

Open to use & reuse w/few or no restrictions

Transparency

Open to contributions and participation

As opposed to…

Open and free to access

As opposed to…

Open to use and reuse with few or no restrictions

As opposed to…

Transparency

As opposed to…

Commonalities

Generally enabled by technology

Works both inside and outside of traditional models

Supported by a variety of business models Open ≠ Free

Open movements

Open access Public access

Open sourceOpen contentOpen educationOpen dataOpen science

Open Access

By 'open access‘ to literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

-Budapest Open Access Initiative-2002

Some common misconceptions

Open access means no copyright

Open access is free

Open access always means the author pays

Open access will destroy peer review

Open access will destroy publishers

2 Paths to Open Accessmanuscript ….

Open Access journal(PLOS Medicine; Biomedcentral, DOAJ)

Open access copy

in online archive

(cIRcle; Pubmed Central)

Traditional subscription

access journals

Articles can be made OA by publishing in an OA journal or self archiving OA copies from a traditional publication

gold

New Models of Scholarly Publishing

green

Open Source

Free to download

Open to modify

Contribute back code

Open Content

Licensed to permit reuse & remixing

Anything that’s copyrightable can become open content: images, text, music, video

Open content license examples include Creative Commons, GNU General Public License, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)

Open Education

Open Data Open access to data not just papers

Data should be available in reusable forms (not tied up in pdfs for example) – Data wants to be acted upon

Working Group on Open Data in Science (http://okfn.org/wiki/wg/science)

and Science Commons (http://sciencecommons.org/)

Open Science

Summary

Principle of openness not just about ‘free’ Ability to reuse Ability to contribute to and participate in Transparency

Multiple methods for open access and multiple business models to support

Public access generally different argument than open access

Range of movements around ‘openness’ in higher education – libraries should be aware of all

Attribution

Slide 11: Super Secret http://www.flickr.com/photos/cipherswarm/

Slide 15: Door http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystalina/

Slide 17: Arrows http://www.flickr.com/photos/1000/

All photos used under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license

This work was created by Sarah Shreeves and Joy Kirchner August 11, 2009 and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Contact Information

Joy KirchnerUniversity of British Columbia

604-827-3644 joy.kirchner@ubc.ca