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Transcript of Open Expansion: The Drive to Open up Access to Research, Heather Joseph
Open Expansion: The Next Wave
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
Meeting Place Open Access
National Library of Sweden
April 26, 2016
Despite the promise of the Internet, the materials we most need the freedom to work with remain largely under restrictive
access, pricing and reuse policies.
“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to
make possible an unprecedented public good.“
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
“The public good is the world-wide electronic distribution of
the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free
and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers,
students, and other curious minds.”
The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
Open Access is the free availability of articles on the public internet, permitting any users to read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other
lawful purpose…
The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
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We have made lots of progress,
but still only a fraction of the communities we want to reach
have fully “bought-into” Open Access.
Strategic Review: What do we know now that
we didn’t know when we started? What could/should we be doing to address those
things?
Independent consultant interviewed stakeholders:
libraries, researchers/faculty, students, policy makers, funders, publishers, and
members of the public to get their (honest!) input.
“The Open Agenda”
Open Access to Articles…. Open Access to Data Sharing Code Open Source Software Open Notebooks Open Educational Resources Open Peer Review Assessments Valuing Open Open...
Opening access to research articles in order to…speed up cancer research. Opening access to research data in order to...prevent a Zika pandemic. Opening access to textbooks in order to...make college more afordable to all students.
Opening access to content in repository in order to... enable a robust computational research environment. Opening access to data underlying articles in order to…promote greater reproducibility. Posting to Open pre-print sites in order to...facilitate faster, more transparent reviews.
Need large scale (macro) efforts to develop new principles,
incentives, mechanisms, metrics for evaluation and assessment.
And we need to be explicit in articulating roles for repositories – not just journals- to lead/support
these goals.
How many of your institutions ask any questions about deposit of
materials into repository on evaluation, promotion and tenure
forms?
In speech to the American Association of Cancer
Researchers last week, The Vice President floated these
potential policy priorities:
• Make research articles openly available on day one.
• Share data.
• Incentivize researchers to share their data.
• Measure progress by improving patient outcomes, not just publications.
• Reward the work of verification.
“And by the way, taxpayers fund $5 billion a year in cancer research, but once it’s published, nearly all of that taxpayer-funded research sits behind walls. Tell me how this is moving the
process along more rapidly.” - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in a speech to American Association of Cancer Researchers, April 20, 2016
Link to the Veep’s Speech:
https://medium.com/@VPOTUS/here-s-what-the-vice-president-said-to-the-largest-convening-of-cancer-researchers-in-the-country-3007bb196dbd#.ks82pkyiu
Continue to leverage any and all
opportunities to share information and experiences –
to collaborate globally.