ismte 2016 keynote talk
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Communicating in an Open World
Jon Tennant@protohedgehog
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Hi• Dinosaur hunter• Freelance science writer• Children’s book author and
consultant• Tweets occasionally• Representing myself, as these
comments are likely to be quite irresponsible
@protohedgehog
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My journey into the ‘Open World’• I blame everything on Ross
Mounce (@rmounce)• It took a lot of paywall hitting for
it to finally hit me..• The more I learned..• OpenCon as a turning point• Frustration led to anger, anger
led to hate, then I kinda calmed down..
@protohedgehog
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Things Open is about to researchers
• Freedom• Equality•Access
•Knowledge• Education
Things Open is about to publishers
•Mandates•Policy
•Article charges• Embargoes•Compliance
We have a huge language problem
We are often having VERY different conversations about exactly the same thing
@protohedgehog
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Take that website as an example..[Some] Researchers• Liberation• Freedom• Justice• Necessary• Disruptive• Convenient
[Some] Publishers• Theft• Stealing • Damaging• Piracy• Illegal• Hacking
We end up talking past each other, instead of working together to find solutions
@protohedgehog
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Open is really ridiculously complicated• Librarians: serials crisis• Researchers: more visibility/citations• Economists: helps small businesses• Activists: morality, freedom, equality• Publishers: money money money (profit)• Funders: money money money (cost)• Editors: want quality content published• Policymakers: have to resolve all of this
@protohedgehog
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What is Open?•A vision•A statement•A cultural movement•A social restructuring•A way of thinking
@protohedgehog
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What is Open not?•A business•A restriction•A fad•Socially exclusive•Shallow
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Why should we care about Open?• Reduce costs for libraries
• Funds can then be redistributed• Reduce competition for funding
• Students and researchers can access what they need• Also everyone else on the planet too
• Cease journal business models defining where we can publish• Provide freedom of publishing venue without constraint
• Publishing should be easy to afford even for the non-financially privileged• Align research with what the Web was designed for
• Efficient and free knowledge transfer
@protohedgehog
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Disclaimer: some people get pretty angry when you talk about ‘open’ publishing..
If you suffer from high blood pressure, it’s probably best to sit this part out.
Credit: Sallaria (DeviantArt)@protohedgehog
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BARRIERS
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How does any of this help?
@protohedgehog
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Total (as of 2016-02-05): 80,629,821You can get up-to-date data at: http://api.crossref.org/works?facet=t&rows=0
Credit: @blahah404Wow! Such data! We must be learning loads, right?!
@protohedgehog
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Same data by license type
Just 1,435,841 (as of 2016-02-05) are legally reusable. That's less than 1.8% of the published research literature.
LOL NOPE
Credit: @blahah404@protohedgehog
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Which is odd. Because you paid for it.
Credit: @blahah404
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Because of these publishers Credit: @blahah404
@protohedgehog
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So what we have is a system that is..• Largely funded by the public• Governed by private interests• Restricted in terms of what we
can do with it• Access is a financial or status
privilege• The actual communication is
secondary to the business model
http://whyopenresearch.org/@protohedgehog
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When publishers fail to innovate
https://thewinnower.com/papers/45-open-letter-to-the-american-association-for-the-advancement-of-sciencehttps://thewinnower.com/papers/73-aaas-misses-opportunity-to-advance-open-access @protohedgehog
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@protohedgehog
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Financial transparencyPrice transparency for libraries for journal and database packages – non-disclosure agreements shut down the market
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmbis/uc1086-i/uc108601.htm
BIS Select Committee enquiry into Open Access, 2013
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• Subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions with ten publishers: £93,766,870
https://olh.openlibhums.org/articles/10.16995/olh.72/
Model of Financial Flows in Scholarly Publishing for the UK, 2014.
“The current lack of publicly available information concerning financial flows around scholarly communication systems is an obstacle to evidence-based policy-making – leaving researchers, decision-makers and institutions in the dark about the implications of current models and the resources available for experimenting with new ones.”
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Financial transparency
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hub_feeds/1998/feed_items/135763
https://alexholcombe.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/scholarly-publishers-and-their-high-profits/
@protohedgehog
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Financial transparency
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/apcs-and-subscriptions
What on Earth is going on up here?
@protohedgehog
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It’s like some publishers aren’t even trying
https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2016/03/23/wellcome-trust-and-coaf-open-access-spend-2014-15/
@protohedgehog
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Financial transparency for authors• What is the APC being spent on?• How much does each part of the
process really cost?
http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/publish/
https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-setting-fee-publication
@protohedgehog
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Open peer reviewHow is something secretive, exclusive, and closed supposed to be
objective?
@protohedgehog
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An adventure with “Publisher X”• That awkward moment when a
publisher breaches your copyright• No formal confidentiality agreement• No informal agreement• Zero information provided
• Intervention via Publons• No notification of takedown• Conducted without my permission• In breach of my rights as a reviewer• Restricting the free flow of information• What the hell were they thinking?
@protohedgehog
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The result?• Publisher X committed an act of copyright
infringement against one of their unpaid volunteer reviewers• Publisher X attempted to over-rule my own
personal copyright with zero legal authority• Completely unenforceable• Publisher X either acted against my permission• Or believe they had copyright, which they did
not
@protohedgehog
It works both ways, you know..
http://www.thelogofactory.com/
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But…• It’s kinda understandable from
the Editor’s perspective• They have confidentiality interests
to consider
• This needs to be much more explicit a priori• All are responsible for making
sure the process is more transparent
@protohedgehog
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Since the incident..
@protohedgehog
It’s just as ‘enforceable’ as any of the previous, so why not?
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The lessons?• Be very explicit beforehand
1. About journal policies2. About the conditions of reviewing3. What everyone’s rights are
• Be open with your communications• Transparency alleviates all problems
• Don’t bully researchers• Don’t try and enforce things illegally• Talk with Publons• Consider open options
@protohedgehog
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@protohedgehog
It should not be this complicated!
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Aspects of open peer review1. Publish the review reports2. Referees are named3. Anyone is allowed to contribute4. What is the decision process based
on? 5. How many reviews are declined
before a sufficient number of referees are obtained?
6. What was the time taken for each part of the process?
@protohedgehog
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21604089-two-big-recent-scientific-results-are-looking-shakyand-it-open-peer-review
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Open up the entire process!• How long does it take for:
• Reviewing (each round, don’t hide them)• Copy editing and proofing• Editorial decisions
• Use this to create a time line of the expected process• Many publishers already experimenting/doing this:
• EMBO• PeerJ• ELife• Nature Communications• Frontiers
And, I might be wrong about this, but no-one has died yet..
@protohedgehog
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Let’s talk about the impact factor..
@protohedgehog
Credit: Hilda Bastian
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http://www.nature.com/news/beat-it-impact-factor-publishing-elite-turns-against-controversial-metric-1.20224
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/05/062109
Because it’s a BS statistic
Skew is imposed by a very small number of highly cited papers
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What can we all do?• We have to break the chain• Stop advertising• Stop using it to evaluate
• Communicate openly• And informedly
• Publish better statistics• Citation distributions
• Accept responsibility for its misuse• ALL of us are accountable
http://www.ascb.org/dora/@protohedgehog
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full
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Other things that don’t fit into the narrative that well..• What is the true value add of publishing?• Well, let’s see..• No format diversity and stupidly strict rules• Very little usage statistics (outsourced mostly)• References rarely hyperlinked (and not deeply)• Networking features rare and terrible• Overlay systems practically non-existent
• Again often outsourced too• Supplemental files considered an afterthought• Size constraints
@protohedgehog
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The current state of scholarly communication?
Slowly but surely adapting to the Web of
1995
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Key messages• Open communication is a necessity in a digital scholarly publishing
world• People expect different standards growing up in a Web-dominated era• Open communication affects all parts of the scholarly publishing
process, not just Open Access• Ask ourselves constantly, are we doing the best we can? How is this
helping research communication?• Open communication is just a gateway to transparency,
accountability, and equality
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