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It’s  Not  Easy  Being  Open…    

Heather Joseph Executive Director, SPARC OASPA Annual Conference

September 21, 2016  

The  Open  Access  Movement  is  a  social  change  movement.  

The  Budapest  Open  Access  Ini>a>ve  

www.boia.org

“An  old  tradi>on  and  a  new  technology  have  converged  to  

make  possible  an  unprecedented  public  good.“  

 -­‐  The  Budapest  Open  Access  Ini>a>ve    -­‐  www.boai.org  

“The  public  good  is  the  world-­‐wide  electronic  distribu>on  of  the  peer-­‐reviewed  journal  

literature  and  completely  free  and  unrestricted  access  to  it  by  all  scien>sts,  scholars,  teachers,  students,  and  other  curious  

minds.”    

The  Budapest  Open  Access  Ini>a>ve    -­‐  www.boai.org  

Lots  of  different  stakeholders.  Lots  of  different  goals,  strategies,  

tac>cs.            

So…why  are  we  s>ll  here?          

I’m  beMng  we’re  all  aiming  for  “Success…”      

But  What  Does  Success  Actually  Mean  to  Us?    

S>ll  Requires  Massive  and  Profound    

Culture  Change        

Example:            

 Library  Goal:    

“Democra>ze  Access  to  Knowledge.”  

 MIT  Library  reorganized  it’s  ac>vi>es:  Collec>on  Budget  is  

now  a  part  of    -­‐  and  essen>ally  in  service  of  -­‐  the  Library’s  Scholarly  

Communica>on’s  Program.  

“I  like  to  think  of  this  change  as  vo>ng  with  our  collec>on  dollars…”    

 -­‐  Ellen  Finnie  

Chris Bourg, MIT Library Dean

Greg Eow, MIT Association Dir. For Collections

Ellen Finnie, MIT Scholarly Comms. Lead

“Depending  on  how  we  spend  them,  our  food  dollars  can  either  go  to  

support  a  food  industry  devoted  to  quan>ty  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  Ac>ons  Alone  Won’t  Carry  the  Day…  

   Collec>ve  Ac>on  +  Collec>ve  

Impact.      

Collec>ve  Impact  

Condi>ons  of  Collec>ve  Impact  

h`p://www.collabora>onforimpact.com/collec>ve-­‐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  communica>ons  ecosystem  with  the  public  good  at  the  

center.

“Opening access to articles in order to…????”

It’s  Not  Easy  Being  “Open…”  

 Thanks.  

Heather  Joseph  Execu>ve  Director,  SPARC  heather@sparcopen.org  www.sparcopen.org  

“In  the  Open”  Blog  post  on  MIT:    

h`p://intheopen.net/2016/03/what-­‐organic-­‐food-­‐shopping-­‐can-­‐tell-­‐us-­‐about-­‐transforming-­‐the-­‐scholarly-­‐

communica>ons-­‐system/