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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…”
“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/