Leiden University. The university to discover. How does technology drive licensing? Kurt De Belder, University Librarian.

Leiden University. The university to discover.

How does technology drive licensing?

Kurt De Belder, University Librarian


Technology as a driver?

Technology = a tool ≠ just a tool the tool changes what & how we work

and think

Introducing the book video

changes society, culture, personal relationships, businesses and business models


How has technology impacted licenses?What are our past experiences?

Federated searching capabilities (Z39.50 – SRU/SRW)

OpenURL linking

New adopted technologies added to license

Nevertheless problems: Kluwer Law: fed. search. <> Kluwer

platform SilverPlatter/Ovid: limited OpenURL hooks Journal publishers: OpenURL <> DOI


When does it become more serious?OAI-PMH: major step away from isolated preprint

services towards publication services that via harvesting become “omni-present” in search environments

start for push towards open access

not discussed as a specific protocol in licensing arrangements

huge influence on discussion of business models, open access discussion, terms about making articles freely available


Is it ever straightforward?

Shibboleth: limited implementation by publishers and

libraries: complex, major step, steep learning curve BUT we know we need to introduce it

Elsevier (and others) selected it as standard

Issues: privacy issues – to be arranged in license –

impact on types of services that publisher/library can offer

business consequences of limiting access to highly specialized information to specific groups


Experiences with publishers

Technological innovation: not (longer) high on the agenda (exceptions

excluded) costly will not always be adopted widely in a timely

manner can upset status-quo:

OpenURL: competed with publishers’ own linking scheme and the edge publishers had at that point

Federated searching: challenges publisher’s identity (branding)

OAI-PMH: challenges existing business models and (perception of) profitability

Shibboleth: possibilities can be neutralized in licenses


Challenges ahead due to technological innovation/1

Ownership/permanent access to what? PDF or HTML derivatives or XML source files not made

available on the publishing platform itself

Same information, different formatting for mobile environments extra costs?

Incorporation & repackaging of content in learning & work environments, e-portfolios, etc.


Challenges ahead due to technological innovation/2 Text & data mining as new frontiers in research

will it take off – has it taken off? no provisions in licenses control (ownership) necessary & rights to

manipulate?

Border between publishing and research environment? sciences: by adding data to publishing

environment do we come close to a new research environment?

humanities: is the publishing environment already a research environment (~ ECCO, EEBO)?

e-science?

Don’t we have to rethink our licenses from the demands of a research environment?


Challenges ahead due to technological innovation/3 Role of Web 2.0 developments

(collaboratories, social software, use and re-use, ...) licensing for cross-institutional

research groups? creation of personal libraries use of personal & context metadata

and search/view/read history for recommender services

extensive exchange of documents among our readers

Atomization of content & its reuse



ERM systems machine readable licenses

(ONIX, ...) harvesting of machine readable

statistics (SUSHI) machine readable TRANSFER

notifications are these for pay services?

...



are lessons from the music industry applicable for scholarly publishing?

impact free information: when is a reader willing to pay?

what about virtual realities such as Second Life? (which environments are appropriate?)

the next “killer” technology, protocol, application will appear (soon) that will make us rethink our strategy, that changes everything, incl. licenses

have we not forgotten to consider ‘exponential growth’ as a factor into our thinking?


http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/pop/stats.php

Exponential growth


The graph illustrates how an exponential growth surpasses both linear and cubic growths


Ray Kurzweil: The Law of Accelerating Returns






How much information?

2.000.000.000 images

jan. 2008: 80.000.000 users 3.000.000.000 videos

2.585.000 articles



Conclusions? Are our license agreements too

limiting for changing research and teaching

needs? for use and re-use of scholarly

information? for our changing information

environment/spaces?

If so? What are our next steps?


Thank you for your attention

Questions?

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Leiden University. The university to discover. How does technology drive licensing? Kurt De Belder, University Librarian.

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