Slides for the Academix 2010 online event, 14 May 2010.

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we used to live in a world
where knowledge was scarce.
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5. 350 years of incremental
innovation
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10. great after breakthroughs.
not so great for making them.
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knowledge is no longer scarce.
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14. how many articles in
life sciences in 2009?
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15. 863,291
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16. 863,291
98.5 articles per hour.
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18. 15 petabytes / year
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19. 24 petabytes / day
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20. 3.
does a business model designed for
scarcity maximize scholarly value?
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21. cost of journals
consumer price
index
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22. what about scholarly benefit?
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24. slides quoting me
complaining about
this query...
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26. where are the hyperlinks?
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27. the business model: born
analog, made digital...
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29. media company response:
protect the business model.
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30. 4.
open access sustains better business
models for knowledge overload.
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31. has to start with rights.
after all, it’s your knowledge.
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32. 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.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
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33. “it’s already here, it’s just unevenly
distributed.”
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36. over 20% of the world’s journals...
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37. educational materials as well...
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40. 5.
the common thread is the commons.
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41. “tragedy”
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48. a public resource, created by private agreements.
voluntary.
“some rights reserved”
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51. the opposite of open isn’t “closed”
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52. the opposite of open is “broken”
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53. thank you
john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation
ewing marion kauffman foundation
chdi foundation
omidyar network
nike, inc.
best buy, inc.
yahoo!, inc.
mountain equipment corporation
sage bionetworks
national cancer institute / university of michigan
sergey brin and anne wojcicki
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