Marin Dacos (CNRS) – Director - OpenEdition

November 2013 – Facing the future – Berlin - ESFRI

OPEN ACCESS TO BIBLIODIVERSITY

Paris

Marseilles

Lisbon

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400 journals

Switzerland Portugal Belgium Canada Brazil Italie Spain 

Germany China Israel Syria 

Turkey Algeria Angola Chile Egypt 

United States Iran 

Kirghizstan Luxembourg 

Morocco Mexico 

Peru Serbie 

Slovenia Thailand Yemen 

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France : 316

Belgium

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Italian Republic

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Kingdom of Spain

Romania

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Denmark

Czechia

Holland

Kingdom of Sweden

Poland

Finland

Estonia

Ireland

Hungary

Russia

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Number of events by country

23000 events

France : 16 700

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Already 30 presses. New publishers are joining

From Canada

From Mexico

From Colombia

From Germany

From Argentina

From Brazil

From Italy

From Denmark

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We proposeBibliodiversity !

As in the ecosystem, diversity is a key for innovation, evolution and adaptability

Combination of biblio + diversity, like in biodiversity.

Diversity for culture, publishing and research

• Diversity of languages(not only English)

• Diversity of disciplines(not only physics)

• Diversity of types of publications(not only articles! Books are also important)

• Diversity of players(not only Oxford)

The old power relations are evolving as non-anglophones embrace open

access

Blue : JSTOR (restricted access) - Red : Scielo.br (open access)

Now Scielo competes with JSTOR.

Source : http://logs.openedition.org/

Maps show interest from a lot of countries

OpenEdition annual # of visits

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130

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Who said that HSS do not interest people outside academia?

But we still have work to doThreats to diversity : “Matthew effect”

(Robert King Merton, 1968)

“The winner takes it all”

Tends to produce a domination of monocultures…- Disciplines- Languages- Types of publications- Players

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Disciplines & languages

“The world’s most trusted citation index”

“Covering the leading scholarly literature”

In fact, the WOS is an island ignoring the majority of journals

In HSS, only 60 of 1000 French peer-reviewed journals are in WOS !

Only this

But not …

Historia and PositifMagazines you can buy in a newsagent's

But not Annales !The most prestigious

French-language history journal, founded by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch

And not Études photographiques

The reference in photographic studies

Who said “Covering the leading scholarly literature” ?

The system is broken

Is it protectionism ?Is it ignorance ?It is violence against diversity

We need serious new metrics

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“The winner takes it all”Disciplines

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Construction cost (M€)of European infrastructures (ESFRI)

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Source : Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2010

Without initial investment,No initiative,Without initiative,No viable proposition,Without viable proposition,No leadership,Without leadership,No investment...

… and no diversity

1%

Humanites and social sciences are going digital

They will promote bibliodiversity in open access

« We call for the creation of scalable digital infrastructures responding to real needs. These digital infrastructures will be built iteratively, based upon methods and approaches that prove successful in research communities. »

They call for infrastructures

TACTICAL PROPOSALS

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Publishing is often forgotten in research infrastructures because we focus on research processesYet, it is the best way to convince our big bosses, just because of PUBLIC USENot only colleagues : usage by journalists, teachers, students and other people, etc. The same public that WikipediaREMEMBER : 35 000 000 visits, 19 000 000 unique visitors(impossible in restricted access)

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TACTICAL PROPOSALS

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• Consider publishing as a node, or the missing link between public demand and the deep research work (rules of evidence)

• Visualization may be considered as a good example of connecting both parts

• Models : – DPLA – Hypotheses

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TACTICAL PROPOSALS

III

If people love science (i.e. HSS)Policy makers will provide money for it

How can we help people to like humanities and social sciences ?

By building attractive infrastructures !

Being boringis not a sign of scientific quality !

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THINK ABOUT NASA AND CERN

Highly technical and abstract disciplines

With a clear and professionnal will of communication

REMEMBER

BIBLIODIVERSITY

FOR OPEN ACCESS AND (VERY) ATTRACTIVE DISCIPLINES

WITH AT LEAST A CONTINENTAL AMBITION

WITH (VERY) STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH THE RESEARCH COMMUNITIES

WITH (VERY VERY) STRONG INTEREST IN PUBLIC USE

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Thanks to the OpenEdition team!