Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia: The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics...

Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia:

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarshipand the Scottish Comics Unconference

Dr Ernesto PriegoCentre for Information Science, City University London#citylis @ernestopriegoBritish Consortium of Comics Scholar Symposium and Tea PartySussex University, Saturday 30 May 2015 #bccs

Acknowledgements and LicenseThis deck of slides reuses slides

on open access publishing originally created by Brian Holebrian.hole@ubiquitypress.com

http://ubiquitypress.com/ Scottish Comics Unconference logo is by Damon Herd @tickingboy

Open Library of Humanities logo is by the Open Library of Humanitieshttps://www.openlibhums.org

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RESEARCHER-LED STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO COMICS

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING

ACTIVITIES

Kindly repeat after me…OPENING ACCESS

AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION, SEEKING REFORM

IS NOT

AGAINSTACADEMIA

IT ISPRO-ACADEMIA

Researcher-led Open Access Publishing

The Comics Grid:Journal of Comics Scholarship

http://www.comicsgrid.com/

Most simply: No barriers to access or reuse

Open Access

Images by/via Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

Open Access

“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.”

-Budapest Open Access Initiativehttp://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/

✔ ✗ ✗

Adapted from Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

2015

Reseacher-led Open Access Publishing:

ReturningControl to Universities!

(and others…)

16 July 2012

The new policy, which applies to all qualifying publications being submitted for publication from 1 April 2013, states that peer reviewed research papers which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the Research Councils:

RCUK announces new Open Access policy

• must be published in journals which are compliant with Research Council policy on Open Access

Academic publishing is going to change

The UK has mandated open access publishing for all state funded research, EU and US are likely to follow

Academic societies want open access, but worryabout costs and losing subscription income

Legacy publishers are unwilling and unable to lower fees for OA, so stillvery expensive (average charge £2,000 per article published)

Many universities want their own presses to makepublishing more affordable and for prestige(although it is expensive and difficult to matchthe legacy publishers’ systems)

Opportunity

Challenges

4 levels of support for universities and their libraries

2 Memberships- 10% discount- pre or post paid

4 University press support

3 Ad hoc publishing

1 Open scholarshipoutreach & support

Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

#dataspringStreamlining Deposit

From Journal to Repository

https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylis/2015/04/30/streamlining-deposit-jisc-funded-dataspring-project/ @StreamDepo

Extended journal functionality

Revamped front-end (March 2015)

Research integrity

Full anti-plagiarism checking

Provision for open research data and software archiving with all publications

Rigorous peer reviewEditorial guidance and training Provision for open peer reviewCOPE membership for all editorsClose links with university’s ethics committee

Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press

My Vision for Future Scholarship: Open Publication Outputs as

Interoperable, Sustainable, Measurable, Rapidly Accessible, Reusable Research Toolkits

The Role of the Library

• Closer collaboration with researchers• Role of librarian as curator and subject

specialist• Special collections in public libraries foster

new audiences; audiences develop awareness, knowledge, aspirations

• Role of libraries as gateways to information; the less friction (obstacles, cost) the better

Opening Publications is not Enough

Scottish Comics Unconference, Glasgow, 15 February 2015http://www.comicsunconference.co.uk/

A Hashtag (Potentially) Amplifies and Fosters Engagement, Community

Twitter can also be an echo chamber but not as much as a completely closed-doors event

New academic cultures

• Strong resistance from senior management• Misunderstanding of the positive, constructive role

of interrogation and development of new forms of academic production, distribution and networking

• Libraries as natural allies of comics scholars as hosting venues but also research sites

• Comics have a wide readership; comics scholarship should be available (accessible) as widely

The Future is Open• Less restrictions to access and reuse comics scholarship• Greater public impact/relevance of comics scholarship due to the

above• Greater interaction between scholars and the public• Greater interaction between scholarly authors and academic editors

and publishers• Greater interaction between librarians and comics scholars; comics

librarians as scholars• Scholarly authors engaging more actively in publishing and

dissemination tasks• Greater variety of networking events like today’s• Technology and innovation at the heart of new developments; greater

sharing and use of research data in comics scholarship

[shameless plug]

#citymashLibraries and technology unconference

Saturday 13 June 2015City University London

[Free, requires registration]More info at

http://citymash.github.io/ https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylis

How to cite this deck of slides: Priego, Ernesto (2015) Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia: The Comics Grid and the Scottish Comics Unconference. Slides presented at the British Consortium of Comics Scholar Symposium andTea Party, Sussex University, Saturday 30 May 2015. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1431840

Thank You!

@ernestopriegoErnesto.Priego.1@city.ac.uk