Beyond journals, articles and versions of record: the new world of platforms, community voices, and records of versions - Jean-Claude Guédon

1. OA is about research and researchers
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Science is a “Great conversation”.
OA is about the “Great conversation”,
not publishers

2. OA is about research and researchers
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Publishers have affected the
“Great Conversation”
OA focuses on the “Great
conversation”

3. OA is about research and researchers
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OA is also about a digitized
“Great conversation”

4. OA is about research and researchers
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Researchers are
Information seekers
Status seekers
And some interface with publishers
(editors, editorial boards)

5. OA is about research and researchers
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OA has focused on the researcher
as information-seeker
It has not done a good job
about the researcher as status-seeker

6. OA is about research and researchers
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Publishers have affected
the “Great Conversation”
by taking control of the status issue.
Let us see how...

7. OA is about research and researchers
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Adding evaluation to the functions of publishing,
and giving a new meaning to evaluation:
an administrative meaning rather than an
intellectual meaning

8. OA is about research and researchers
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If OA has to deal with publishers,
It is because of the ways in which
the “great conversation”
has been altered

9. OA is about research and researchers
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The main problem lies with
JOURNALS

10. OA is about research and researchers
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Journals
must become
the sub-conversation
of the “Great Conversation”
that can be owned by a community of researchers

11. OA is about research and researchers
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Journals (as redefined here)
must populate what is really crucial:
platforms

12. OA is about research and researchers
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Platforms organize:
Document-to-document relationships
Researcher-to-document relationships
Researcher-to-researcher relationships

13. OA is about research and researchers
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Platforms
are, therefore, an essential part
of research infrastructures

14. OA is about research and researchers
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They are, therefore,
the responsibility
of research funders

15. OA is about research and researchers
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And this is precisely what is happening:
Wellcome Trust Research
Gates Foundation

16. OA is about research and researchers
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Even better, a consortium of funding agencies
can have enormous importance in this regard:
Think of SciELO
Tweak the S Plan...

17. OA is about research and researchers
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OA is about re-aligning
the tasks of
scholarly digital publishing
with the aims of the
“Great conversation”

18. OA is about research and researchers
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OA
is about
the
“World Brain” (H. G. Wells)

19. OA is about research and researchers
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