complicating the question of access (and value) with university press publications

Shaking It Up: How to Thrive In – And Change – The Research Ecosystem

Marguerite Avery | Program in Information Science, MIT Libraries

Barriers to Access Price

Time

Format

About University Presses… Mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations charged with

serving the public good by generating and disseminating knowledge

Publish works of of scholarly, intellectual, or creative merit for more specialized audiences

UPs are extensions of their sponsoring institutions

Considered a key node in knowledge and research network of learned societies, scholarly associations, and research libraries

Barrier: Price

OA Advocacy Groups

Authors Alliance

OA Publishing Initiatives (recent)

Knowledge Unlatched

Open Library for the Humanities

Amherst College Press

Oberlin Group / Lever Initiative

research results [Twitter]

draft paper [SSRN]

Conference paper

Journal article

Published book

Research findings

Published content

Barrier: Time

Omg! A ship passing thru the Panama Canal uses 52

MILLION gallons of water! [Twitter]

Environmental impact Panama Canal Watershed – UNESCO

report

“The Machete and the Freighter: Making the Panama Canal Watershed, 1977- 1999”

4S 2009 Conference paper, posted [SSRN]

“Nature as Infrastructure: Making and Managing the Panama Canal Watershed”

Social Studies of Science 42(4)

Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal (MIT Press,

2014)

Barrier: Format

What does content want to be?

Short(er) formats

Existing content

New content

Developing content

Removing all barriers

A recent access experiment from a UP

Cambridge University Press, 2014