Nobody cites your work: copyright licensing and public engagement

Mathias Klang @klangable

Some issues, solutions, and a critique

Issue 1: interaction

“If the sine qua non for academic success is peer-reviewed publications, then academics who ‘waste their time’ writing for the masses will be penalized.”

“Academic prose is, ideally, impersonal, written by one disinterested mind for other equally disinterested minds”

Issue 2: students

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Our students were 8 years old

“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising

the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by

buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention

span and who live for the moment.”

Prof. Susan Greenfield

Prof. Missy Cummings

“We’d be lucky today if they had a 20-30 minute attention span, now its more like 5-10, because if their minds wander they immediately go to another information seeking routine like their cell phones… Like it or not this is the new norm.“

Issue 3: the great ignored

Prof Lokman I Meho

“It is a sobering fact that some 90% of papers that have been published in academic journals are never cited. Indeed, as many as 50% of papers are never read by anyone other than their authors, referees and journal editors.”

Issue 4: Edutainment

“monstrosity that turns scientists and thinkers into low-level entertainers, like circus performers.”

Nassim Taleb

how to interact with society, engage your students, get your papers read, not become an “empty” entertainer, while avoiding burnout and staying happy…

Step 1: Don’t think if you blog they will come

Step 2: Open access

“First of all, the whole idea that the public is clamoring for free access to the scientific literature is a pipe dream”

Step 3: Copyright & licensing

Lessig sued: Fair use is not enough

Creative Commons

2013

4.0

2002 1.0

2005 2.5

2004 2.0

2007 3.0

2013 4.0!

Database Rights

The critique: Does it all work?

Using other people’s content

Using and abusing social mediaPick your tools.

Open access & citations

Creative commons & resuse

Swedish heritage board

4 years later

OMG!!!OMG!!!

Multiplication can produce big numbers

Public Library of Science has moved to 4.0

Lowering barriers helps academics. Now, find your comfort level & share

Interact with the community…

Thank you.

Mathias Klang @klangable

www.klangable.com

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