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It’s Not Easy Being Open…
Heather JosephExecutive Director, SPARCOASPA Annual Conference
September 21, 2016
The Open Access Movement is a social change movement.
The Budapest Open Access Initiative
www.boia.org
“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to
make possible an unprecedented public good.“
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative - www.boai.org
“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
Lots of different stakeholders.Lots of different goals, strategies,
tactics.
So…why are we still here?
I’m betting we’re all aiming for “Success…”
But What Does Success Actually Mean to Us?
Still Requires Massive and Profound
Culture Change
Example:
Library Goal: “Democratize Access to
Knowledge.”
MIT Library reorganized it’s activities: Collection Budget is
now a part of - and essentially in service of - the Library’s Scholarly
Communication’s Program.
“I like to think of this change as voting with our collection dollars…”
- Ellen Finnie
Chris Bourg, MIT Library Dean
Greg Eow, MITAssociation Dir. For Collections
Ellen Finnie, MITScholarly Comms.Lead
“Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to
support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and
‘value’ or they can nourish a food chain organized around values—values like quality and health.”
-Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food
A truly “big flip” – Values vs. Value
Individual Actions Alone Won’t Carry the Day…
Collective Action + Collective Impact.
Collective Impact
Conditions of Collective Impact
http://www.collaborationforimpact.com/collective-impact/
Not just “Open” for Open’s Sake…
…But Open “in Order to...”
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.
Open in order to: Create a research
communications ecosystem with the public good at the
center.
“Opening access to articles in order to…????”
It’s Not Easy Being “Open…”
“In the Open” Blog post on MIT:
http://intheopen.net/2016/03/what-organic-food-shopping-can-tell-us-about-transforming-the-scholarly-
communications-system/
