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04/10/23 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010, Concordia University 1

www.bioline.org.brIFLA Pre-Conference, Gothenburg University, Aug 9, 2010

Leslie ChanDirector, Bioline InternationalUniversity of Toronto, ScarboroughCanada




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Background• Current knowledge system• Evolving knowledge ecology

Background• Current knowledge system• Evolving knowledge ecology

Reframe• From information “economy” to knowledge “society”• Librarians as custodians of the Public Sphere

Reframe• From information “economy” to knowledge “society”• Librarians as custodians of the Public Sphere

Argument• Need for policy alignment and institutional redesign• Rethink the values and reward system

Argument• Need for policy alignment and institutional redesign• Rethink the values and reward system

A ChallengeThe 1% Solution to Open Access

A ChallengeThe 1% Solution to Open Access




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Background• Two trends as illustration

• Rising Cost•“World Science”




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Ithaka Faculty Survey 2009

“Basic scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly in recent years and, as a result, the academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance in one of its core areas.“

http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/faculty-surveys-2000-2009/faculty-survey-2009




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Library as Buyers?

Ithaka Faculty Survey 2009




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“we willingly serve as the corrections officers for corporate information prisons.”Barbara Fister, Trumping ownership with open access: a manifesto Library Journal, 4/1/2010http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6723666.html?nid=2671&rid=##reg_visitor_id##&source=title




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http://thomsonreuters.com/




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The World of Scientific Output According to Thomson’s ISI Science Citation Index

Data from 2002http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205




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Retrieved April 26, 2010 from: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117328677437228595850.00044ec490b69019e64a3&z=2

Active Bioline Journals graphed with Google Maps.




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The World of Scientific Output According to Thomson’s ISI Science Citation Index

Data from 2002http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=205




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NorthNorth

SouthSouth




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Closed AccessClosed Access

Open AccessOpen

Access




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http://vimeo.com/10169351




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“Weeds” or Vegetables?




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Access to Reading

Access to Publishing

Access to Funding

Access to Participation

Access to Sharing

Access to Reward and Recognition

Access to Reading

Access to Publishing

Access to Funding

Access to Participation

Access to Sharing

Access to Reward and Recognition

Open




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Reframe




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Big DealsBig Deals

Small DealsSmall Deals




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Private InterestsPrivate

Interests

Public GoodsPublic Goods




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To Big to

http://www.neoformix.com/2008/BushSpeechOnFinancialCrisisFAIL.html




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John Buschman

Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003

“that the specific trends identified in librarianship that accommodate the new public philosophy of casting public cultural institutions in economic terms represent a further diminution of the democratic public sphere.”




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Human Development and Access to Knowledge-embedded goods

Access to learning resourcesAccess to journals Access to research and outcome dataAccess to health careAccess to MedicinePUBLIC

GOODS

PUBLICGOODS




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Argument

Need for policy alignment and institutional redesign

Governance of Knowledge Commons

Rethink the values and reward system

Social Accounting and Expanded Values




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Social and Sustainability Accounting

Scholarly knowledge as “merit good”

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What kind of “Business” are we in and what are we trying to “Sustain”?




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Broadening the definition of “success”, “impact”, “value” and “capital”

Business value monetary return, financial capital, efficiency, competiveness

Scholarly value Reputation and citation; trust; symbolic capital

Institutional value Public mission, community outreach, intellectual capital

Social value Equity, participation, diversity, social capital

Political value Evidence based policy, transparency, accountability, civic capital




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Institutional Design

Sustainability as a set of institutional structures and processes that build and protect the knowledge commons (after Sumner 2005, Mook and Sumner 2010)

Sustainability as a set of institutional structures and processes that build and protect the knowledge commons (after Sumner 2005, Mook and Sumner 2010)




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A ChallengeA Challenge The 1% Solution




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“Too often we think of scientific knowledge and the developing countries in terms of what “we” can do for “them”. We need to nurture the organizations and initiatives that challenge this limiting point of view, enriching the international scholarly community with important research and neglected perspectives from the developing world.”

Lynne Copeland, Dean of Library Services & University Librarian, Simon Fraser University Library, Canada




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