Tonta World Is Flat Yet Not Open Oslo Workshop 10 May 2006 Final Revised

Yaşar Tonta Department of Information Management Hacettepe University [email_address] yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html The World is Flat, Yet Not Open: How Could Open Access Really Flatten the Information World

Outline ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ The World Is Flat”, by Tom Friedman ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Globalization ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

10 World Flatteners ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

10 World Flatteners (cont’d) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

10 World Flatteners (cont’d) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Triple Convergence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Flattening the World ,[object Object]

Yes, but . . . ,[object Object],[object Object]

The World is Flat at Univ. of Oslo?

Yes, but the contents not available online

Google Scholar is a virtual destination

Library Catalogs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Amazoogle ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

library user environments resource environment Source: Dempsey, LIBER Conference, 2005 Inside Out Library lab books exhibitions PDAs learning management systems campus portal course material text book personal collections reading lists Institutional repository Digital collections E-reserve Catalog Licensed collections Aggregations Virtual reference Cataloging ILL lab books exhibitions PDAs learning management systems campus portal course material text book personal collections reading lists

library user environments resource environment Flow and flattening: the library in the user environment, Not the user in the library environment. Flattening and flow: Flexible assembly of services from multiple sources. Source: Dempsey, LIBER Conference, 2005 lab books exhibitions PDAs learning management systems campus portal course material text book personal collections reading lists Institutional repository Digital collections E-reserve Catalog Licensed collections Aggregations Virtual reference Cataloging ILL

Libraries as Virtual Destinations I ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Libraries as Virtual Destinations II ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Libraries as Virtual Destinations III ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Open Access Definition ,[object Object],[object Object],Source: Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

Use of Public Money in Research ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: House of Commons Select Committee on Science & Technology Tenth Report, 2004. Chapter 4

Open Access Mandates ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Open Access and Research Impact ,[object Object],The UK is losing around £ 1.5 billion annually in the potential impact of its scientific research expenditure, according to one of the key figures in the global open 1.5 billion lost annually in potential return on British science access publishing movement. Professor Stevan Harnad, Moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, has calculated the potential return on the investment in scientific research findings that are being lost to the UK each year through the limitations of the current academic publishing environment. Source: www.eprints.org

Open Access and Journal Literature ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Digitization Projects ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Open Access and “Amazing Era of Prosperity and Innovation” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Prospects for the Research Library Catalog ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: K. Calhoun, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. 2006, p. 26

Graceful Exit or Becoming a Truly Virtual Destination ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Improve the User Experience ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: K. Calhoun, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. 2006, p. 19

Conclusion ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

“ What we find changes who we become” Cartoon by Doug Sheppard and Katrin L. Salyers

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