Open publishing: an introduction

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[open publishing]

an introduction

rebecca parker swinburne library @libodyssey

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[publishing] the activity of making information available to the general public – Wikipedia

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[----------] 3000BCE

100BCE

Data sourced from http://finvy.com/a-brief-history-of-publishing

1456

1843

1983

1990s

1998

2004 2011

2007

[brief history]

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[closed?] publishing

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[----------] 3000BC

100BC

Data sourced from: http://finvy.com/a-brief-history-of-publishing

1456

1843

1983

1990s

1998

2004 2011

2007

[brief history] only a privileged few can read

the internet is still a luxury for many

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[open] source

licensing government

data

knowledge courseware

standards

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[barriers] to access

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[#1] cost

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[#2] infrastructure

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[#3] reuse

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[#4] language

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[----------] computing

Berlin declaration

funder mandates

open humanities

[brief history]

physics

of open publishing

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[open] journals

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[green] repositories

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[gold] journals

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[hybrid] articles

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[open] books

(monographs)

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[open] data

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[open] standards

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[challenges] of open publishing

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[#1] it’s confusing

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[vanity] masquerade

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[#2] change is frustratingly slow

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[growth] ~ 30% in 2009 < 40% in 2011

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Source: http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676

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[#3] understandable resistance

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[research metrics] hinder open access

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[libraries] what all this means for us

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Relatively few researchers have the knowledge or skills to manage their data effectively, and only a small number of people have the specialist data management and curation skills combined with the subject domain expertise often required in order to provide effective support to researchers in the course of their work.

Research Information Network (2010). Research support in UK universities. London: RIN.

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[lublisher] or publarian?

Kenney, A., Maron, N., Miller, S. & Watkinson, C.(2013). Publarians or lublishers: role bending in the new scholarly communications ecosystem. Charleston Conference 2013.

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[so why] bother with open?

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[we are] getting somewhere

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[#1] how open is it?

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[#2] breakthrough research

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[#3] government support

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[#4] alternative metrics

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Tweets can predict highly cited articles within the first 3 days of article publication

[Twimpact]

Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact. Journal of Medical Internet Research, e123.

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[#5] publishers are getting jumpy

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[the future] of open publishing?

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[you]

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[thank you] questions?

@libodyssey rparker@swin.edu.au

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