Opportunities for Knowledge Management in the Open Access Environment

Leslie ChanCenter for Critical Development StudiesBioline InternationalUniversity of Toronto Scarborough

Department of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of KerelaDec. 17, 2012

“we willingly serve as the corrections officers for corporate information prisons.”Barbara Fister, Trumping ownership with open access: a manifesto Library Journal, 4/1/2010http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6723666.html?nid=2671&rid=##reg_visitor_id##&source=title

John Buschman

Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003

“that the specific trends identified in librarianship that accommodate the new public philosophy of casting public cultural institutions in economic terms represent a further diminution of the democratic public sphere.”

http://thomsonreuters.com/

The World of Scientific Output According to Thomson’s ISI Science Citation Index

Data from 2002http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205

Agenda• What is Open Access and its key benefits• Growth of OA in the last ten years• Key trends and developments

– Global and Local trends New and Exciting Developments

• Areas that are still deficient• Opportunities for Information and Library

Professionals

Key Messages

• Open Access as a philosophical principle and a set of practical tools

• Emerging countries like India should pay attention to Open Access

• Importance for the public, for education, and for development• “Journal” no longer serves the needs of networked

scholarship• From “Wealth of Nations” to “Wealth of Networks”• Need to think of new and equitable ways to support research

access and dissemination

OA does not only remove or reduce price barriers for researchers in developing countries, it offers a more equitable model for the exchange of knowledge as a global public good (the philosophical dimension)

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“By "open access" to this 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.”BOAI 2002 http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read

Modes of Open AccessGratis Libre

GreenAuthor Self-Archiving of published papers or pre-prints in Institutional Repositories

Green-Gratis Green-Libre

GoldAuthor publish in journals that are open access

Gold-Gratis Gold-Libre

User Rights

Venues and Delivery Vehicles

http://maps.repository66.org/

http://www.doaj.org/

Indian Open Access journals indexed in DOAJ and OpenJGate

http://cis-india.org/openness/publications/open-access-scholarly-literature.pdf

http://www.openoasis.org/

http://www.openaccessmap.org

http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/

The World of Journal Publishing According to Thomson’s ISI Science Citation Index

Data from 2002http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205

http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php

http://www.scielo.org.za/

http://www.bioline.org.br

Some Key Trends in OA

Institutional and Funder Mandates

Policy Developments

• The World Bank launched an institutional repository and adopted an OA mandate on April 10, 2012

• UNESCO published an OA Policy Guidelines in March 2012

• UK, EU, and the USA are all developing major funding policies on OA

New Ways of thinking about Scholarly Communications

From “Big” science to Networked science

Knowledge for local problem solving

OPEN ACCESS ?

Ithaka Faculty Survey 2009

“Basic scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly in recent years and, as a result, the academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance in one of its core areas.“

http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/faculty-surveys-2000-2009/faculty-survey-2009

Conclusions

• Leverage the various Open movement • Align the values of research with appropriate incentives and

recognition• Also need to align policies that are emerging from the top

with initiatives are rising from the bottom• Support for metadata standards and open licences• Recognition of non-proprietary and collaborative research

output from networked scholarship• Reward dissemination of research findings through multiple

means – beyond the journal• Move Prestige to Open Access

Thank You! chan@utsc.utoronto.ca

http://www.openoasis.org

http://www.bioline.org.br

http://www.openaccessmap.org