Vision session talk - NASIG Annual Conference

1. The Power of “Open.”
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
NASIG Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM
June 11, 2016

3. Despite the promise of the
Internet, the materials we most
need the freedom to work with
remain largely under restrictive
access, pricing and reuse policies.

4. We found ourselves with 20th
century policies and practices
governing 21st
century information.

5. Enter “Open”

7. “An old tradition and a new
technology have converged to
make possible an
unprecedented public good.“
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org

8. “The public good is the world-
wide electronic distribution of
the peer-reviewed journal
literature and completely free
and unrestricted access to it by
all scientists, scholars, teachers,
students, and other curious
minds.”
The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org

9. “Removing access barriers to this
literature will accelerate research,
enrich education, share the learning
of the rich with the poor and the poor
with the rich, make this literature as
useful as it can be, and lay the
foundation for uniting humanity in a
common intellectual conversation and
quest for knowledge.”
-The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org

10. “Open” Access =
Immediate Access + Full Reuse

11. “Open” can provide a solution to a
problems, and a lever to create
new opportunities.

12. Lots of different problems.
Lots of different opportunities

13. This diversity is both a core
strength – and a key weakness – of
our initial Open Access efforts.

14. What problem(s) are we using
Open Access to try and solve?

15. Library budgets & journal prices

16. www.arl.org/sparc16
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17. 17

18. Source: Jason Priem (jasonpriem.org)

23. All are absolutely legitimate, and
important...

24. https://abeggarsblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/elephant-blind-men.jpg

25. And it gets even more
challenging when we consider
parallel community efforts:

27. This has also meant that different
stakeholders have pursued
different strategies...

28. The “Green” Road.

29. The “Gold” Road.

30. Using Open Licenses.

31. Pursuing Policies.

32. Again, All are absolutely
legitimate...

34. A decade and change later…

35. We have made lots of progress.
But - only a fraction of the
communities we want to reach
have fully “bought-into”
Open Access.

36. Why?

37. Independent consultant
interviewed stakeholders:
libraries, researchers/faculty,
students, policy makers,
funders, publishers, and
members of the public to get
their (honest!) input.

38. What do we know now that
we didn’t know when we
started? What could/should
we be doing to address those
things?

39. 1. We need to Look at the
Whole Board.

41. “The Open Agenda”
Open Access to Articles….
Open Access to Data
Sharing Code
Open Source Software
Open Notebooks
Open Educational Resources
Open Peer Review
Assessments Valuing Open
Open...

43. 2. We Need to Clearly Define
our End Goal.

44. Setting the default to “open”
in research and education.

46. 3. Why “Open?”

47. Not just “Open”
for Open’s Sake….

48. …But Open
“in Order to...”

49. Opening access to research articles
in order to…speed up progress
towards curing Parkinson’s disease.
Opening access to research data in
order to...prevent a Zika pandemic.
Opening access to textbooks in order
to...make college more afordable to
all students.

50. 4. We need to Reward “Open” in
Meaningful Ways.

51. Need large scale efforts to
develop new principles,
incentives, mechanisms, metrics
for evaluation and assessment…

52. …And we also need smaller, local
efforts to lay the foundation for
change…

53. How many of your institutions ask
any questions about Open Access,
Open Data or OERs in their
evaluation, promotion and tenure
forms?

55. All of these are large challenges.

56. But Every Challenge is an
Opportunity.

60. In recent speeches, the Vice
President of the United States
has floated these potential
policy priorities:

61. •Make research articles openly
available on day one.
•Openly share research data.
•Incentivize researchers to share
their data.
•Measure progress by improving
patient outcomes, not just
publications.

62. Not “if” – but “how.”

63. Open in order to:
Create a system for sharing
knowledge that is optimized to
serve the needs of humanity.

64. Thank You!
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
heather@sparcopen.org
www.sparcopen.org