Open Access is Changing Research

Philippe Aigrain

Company: www.sopinspace.com

personal: http://paigrain.publicdebate.net

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introduction

OA is changing scientific papers

OA is changing scientific communities

OA is changing the relationship betweenresearch and society

OA spreads beyond publications to data,protocols, software, research instrumentsand through that is changing science

Will research shape its (legal, economic)environment?

Open access ... beyond access

The changing nature of scientific papers

preprints that are not preprints

papers that scientists in neighbouring fieldsand « advanced users » of research can read

different processes around papers

Changing scientific communities

granularity

reflective

credits

New interactions between research and society

From OA to commons-based science: data,protocols, software, research instruments

OECD Global Research Village, 2000

open science ... or none

Significant challenges for defining adequate commons regimes

For data Commons must stand directly on their own or on the limited power of disclosure

For biological information and materials

Copylefting or not Management of materials

For methods and protocols (ex: BioBricks)

the semantic Web is one way to do open science,do not mistake one for the other

Will research shape its (legal, economic)environment?

Researchers and some policy makers have startedto move beyond “exceptions”

Layers (legal)

A special law for scientific information

An instrument on Limitations and Exceptions at WIPO

A treaty on Access to Knowledge A treaty on Medical R&D with priorities of public health at WHO

A positive recognition for commons-based research and innovation in international norms

http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/docs/Aigrain-Alexandria-080906.pdf

On (y)our own or with alliances?

shaping also the interface with the economy :a lot to learn from the cultural field

Thanks for your attention