Gold Open Science Nov 13 07

Open Science &Scientific Publishing

Open Access and the progress of science

Promise,

Permissions, Persistence,

& Partnerships

Anna Gold, Head Librarian MIT Engineering & Science Libraries - November 13, 2007

1. Promise! More than the same old story

! The new story - examples:

! Text mining

! Retaining information

! Rich, flexible units of scholarly communication

2. Permissions & Persistence: barriers to openscience & library actions on:

! Permissions

! Persistence

3. Partnerships: for realizing the promise of openscience

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$27,342.70

Elsevier subscription inflation, 2002-2007: 40%

Elsevier operating profit, 2001: 34%

Promise: more than the same old story…

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“Numerous scientists have pointed out the tragicirony that, right at the historical moment whenwe have the technologies to permit worldwideavailability and distributed processing ofscientific data and their concomitant promise forbroadening collaboration and accelerating thepace and depth of discovery, we are busy lockingup that data and slapping legal restrictions ontransfer.” – Creative Commons

Promise: the new story

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience?

Promise

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Text mining.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Text mining.

“Text mining is a reality today, at least on alimited basis, and producing some results of realvalue… [T]he barriers to progress will be morearound business models for those journals thataren’t open access (some open access journalsactually package up a compressed archive of alltheir articles and invite interested parties tosimply copy the files and compute away; clearlythis is not going to be as straightforward for acommercial publisher).”– Clifford Lynch, August 2007, CT WatchQuarterly

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Text mining.

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CrystalEye

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Retaining information.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Retaining information.

<molecule id=”m1”> <crystalspacegroup=”Fm3m” z=”4”><stm:scalar title=”a” errorValue=”0.001”units=”angstrom”>5.628</stm:scalar><stm:scalar title=”b” errorValue=”0.001”units=”angstrom”>5.628</stm:scalar><stm:scalar title=”c” errorValue=”0.001”units=”angstrom”>5.628</stm:scalar><stm:scalar title=”alpha”errorValue=”0”>90</stm:scalar><stm:scalar title=”beta”errorValue=”0”>90</stm:scalar><stm:scalar title=”gamma”errorValue=”0”>90</stm:scalar> </crystal><atomArray> <atom id=”a1”elementType=”Na” formalCharge=”1”xyzFract=”0.0 0.0 0.0” xy2=”+23.2 -21.0”/><atom id=”a2” elementType=”Cl”formalCharge=”-1” xyzFract=”0.5 0.0 0.0”/></atomArray></molecule>

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Rich, flexible units of scholarlycommunication.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Rich, flexible units of scholarlycommunication.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Rich, flexible units of scholarlycommunication.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Mash-ups of data & articles.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? Mash-ups of data & articles.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? YouTube for Science.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience? YouTube for Science.

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What would be gained if scientists couldcreate new ways of using the record ofscience?

“At this point in time we can only imagine what is possible, but it is certain that it will dwarf what any one company might achieve.”

– BioMed Central

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Permissions

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Permissions

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“The authors assign to AEI all right,title and interest they have in thecopyrightable work described above,throughout the world and for the fullterm including all extensions andrenewals… [to] include all rights ofcopyright registration andpublication, the right to createderivative works and all other rightsincident to copyright ownership.”

- from American Academy ofNeurology copyright transferagreement

Permissions

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Permissions

“Who holds the copyright to the Universe?”

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Permissions

creativecommons.org

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Permissions

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Permissions

libraries.mit.edu/scholarly

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Permissions

libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/

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Persistence

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Persistence

MIT 1999

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Persistence

dspace.mit.edu

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MIT Libraries FACADE project seeks to“future-proof” digital architectural files:

“Imagine losing the drawings for the Louvre, theVatican, or the Taj Mahal. For centuriesarchivists have had to worry about the hazards oftime, water and pests that threaten paperdocuments. Today’s Computer-Aided Design(CAD) files face a new kind of preservationchallenge—digital obsolescence. …”

Persistence

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Persistence

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Partnerships

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Partnership:Permissions

Until the rules of copyright are changed, we canchange the way we use the rules:

•Consortium to pay for global open access(SCOAP3)

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Partnerships:Persistence

portico.org

“The mission of Portico is to preservescholarly literature published in electronicform and to ensure that these materialsremain accessible to future scholars,researchers, and students.”

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“The change willcome whenscientistsunderstand thatthey are in control.The publishersneed us more thanwe need them.” –Harold Varmus(interview andphoto from Wiredmagazine, 2006)

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WEB SITES MENTIONED:

Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.orgCrystalEye: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/CT Watch Quarterly: http://www.ctwatch.orgDSpace@MIT: http://dspace.mit.eduMIT copyright video tutorials: http://libraries.mit.edu/tutorials/video/scholarly

MIT Libraries scholarly publishing site: http://libraries.mit.edu/scholarlyPortico: http://portico.orgScience Commons: http://sciencecommons.orgSciVee: http://www.scivee.tvSCOAP3: http://www.scoap3.org

John Wilbanks’ Nov. 13 talk (preceding this one):http://www.slideshare.net/wilbanks/mit-open-science-talk