Emerging Research and Educational Opportunities in the Open Access Knowledge Environment

Beyond Open Access

Leslie Chan

University of Toronto Scarborough

www.bioline.org.br

A South-North Collaboration

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AbstractsFull-text

Usage of publications from developing country research distributed by Bioline

International

Why Journals?

Registration

Authentication and Quality Control

Dissemination

Reward - Citation

Archiving

Reputation and

Authority Management

Open Access is Disruptive

Reconfiguring Quality and Reputation

Reconfiguring Knowledge Domain and Representation

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=279

Military Spending 2002

Dominant Model of Knowledge Dissemination: From the Centre to Peripheries

“lost science”

Perpetual the cycle of knowledge poverty and dependence

Characteristic JIF Scopus/SCImago

F1000

Accuracy 5 7 8/9

Comprehen-siveness

6 8 0

Objectivity 2 6 0

Promptness 3 3 9

Simplicity 10 7 8

Transparency 0 4 9

Lown and Banerjee (2006) The Developing World in The NJM

OA is shifting the “centre” of knowledge production

Decentralization

Open access enable Peer-to-Peer sharing

… and new model ofKnowledge creation,Sharing, andDissemination

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Some Potential Metrics• Citations (C)• CiteRank• Co-citations• Downloads (D)• C/D Correlations• Hub/Authority index• Chronometrics:

Latency/Longevity• Endogamy/Exogamy • Book citation index

• Research funding• Students• Prizes• h-index• G-factor• Co-authorships• Number of articles• Number of publishing years• Semiometrics (latent

semantic indexing, text overlap, etc.)

Open Access is Generative

“Generatives” and changing markets

“ The future is conversational: when there's more good stuff that you know about that's one click away or closer than you will ever click on, it's not enough to know that some book is good. The least substitutable good in the Internet era is the personal relationship.

Conversation, not content, is king. “

Cory Doctorow 2006http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html

“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technology. It happnes when society adopts new behaviours”

Content producers

Users

Closed Content

Traditional Business Models

CapitalResearchDevelopment

Subscription

Licensing

Pay-per-view$ $

Print is “degenerative”

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/media/chimpcalls.html

Content layer

Generative layer

Open Source Open Access

New Business Models

Authority Trust FindabilityPersonalization Immediacy

CapitalResearch

Development

Fragmented and scattered

Coherent and

structured

Overlayservices

http://www.mendeley.com/

Dr. P.Balaram, IISc Bangalore India

http://openoasis.org

Open Access is Changing What Counts

Made Sure YOU are Counted!