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Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia:
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarshipand the Scottish Comics Unconference
Dr Ernesto PriegoCentre for Information Science, City University London#citylis @ernestopriegoBritish Consortium of Comics Scholar Symposium and Tea PartySussex University, Saturday 30 May 2015 #bccs
Acknowledgements and LicenseThis deck of slides reuses slides
on open access publishing originally created by Brian [email protected]
http://ubiquitypress.com/ Scottish Comics Unconference logo is by Damon Herd @tickingboy
Open Library of Humanities logo is by the Open Library of Humanitieshttps://www.openlibhums.org
How to cite this deck of slides: Priego, Ernesto (2015) Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia: The Comics Grid and the Scottish Comics Unconference. Slides presented at the British Consortium of Comics Scholar Symposium and Tea Party, Sussex University, Saturday 30 May 2015. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1431840
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RESEARCHER-LED STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO COMICS
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING
ACTIVITIES
Kindly repeat after me…OPENING ACCESS
AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION, SEEKING REFORM
IS NOT
AGAINSTACADEMIA
IT ISPRO-ACADEMIA
Researcher-led Open Access Publishing
The Comics Grid:Journal of Comics Scholarship
http://www.comicsgrid.com/
Most simply: No barriers to access or reuse
Open Access
Images by/via Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
Open Access
“By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
-Budapest Open Access Initiativehttp://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/
✔ ✗ ✗
Adapted from Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
2015
Reseacher-led Open Access Publishing:
ReturningControl to Universities!
(and others…)
16 July 2012
The new policy, which applies to all qualifying publications being submitted for publication from 1 April 2013, states that peer reviewed research papers which result from research that is wholly or partially funded by the Research Councils:
RCUK announces new Open Access policy
• must be published in journals which are compliant with Research Council policy on Open Access
Academic publishing is going to change
The UK has mandated open access publishing for all state funded research, EU and US are likely to follow
Academic societies want open access, but worryabout costs and losing subscription income
Legacy publishers are unwilling and unable to lower fees for OA, so stillvery expensive (average charge £2,000 per article published)
Many universities want their own presses to makepublishing more affordable and for prestige(although it is expensive and difficult to matchthe legacy publishers’ systems)
Opportunity
Challenges
4 levels of support for universities and their libraries
2 Memberships- 10% discount- pre or post paid
4 University press support
3 Ad hoc publishing
1 Open scholarshipoutreach & support
Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
#dataspringStreamlining Deposit
From Journal to Repository
https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylis/2015/04/30/streamlining-deposit-jisc-funded-dataspring-project/ @StreamDepo
Extended journal functionality
Revamped front-end (March 2015)
Research integrity
Full anti-plagiarism checking
Provision for open research data and software archiving with all publications
Rigorous peer reviewEditorial guidance and training Provision for open peer reviewCOPE membership for all editorsClose links with university’s ethics committee
Slide by Brian Hole and Ubiquity Press
My Vision for Future Scholarship: Open Publication Outputs as
Interoperable, Sustainable, Measurable, Rapidly Accessible, Reusable Research Toolkits
The Role of the Library
• Closer collaboration with researchers• Role of librarian as curator and subject
specialist• Special collections in public libraries foster
new audiences; audiences develop awareness, knowledge, aspirations
• Role of libraries as gateways to information; the less friction (obstacles, cost) the better
Opening Publications is not Enough
Scottish Comics Unconference, Glasgow, 15 February 2015http://www.comicsunconference.co.uk/
A Hashtag (Potentially) Amplifies and Fosters Engagement, Community
Twitter can also be an echo chamber but not as much as a completely closed-doors event
New academic cultures
• Strong resistance from senior management• Misunderstanding of the positive, constructive role
of interrogation and development of new forms of academic production, distribution and networking
• Libraries as natural allies of comics scholars as hosting venues but also research sites
• Comics have a wide readership; comics scholarship should be available (accessible) as widely
The Future is Open• Less restrictions to access and reuse comics scholarship• Greater public impact/relevance of comics scholarship due to the
above• Greater interaction between scholars and the public• Greater interaction between scholarly authors and academic editors
and publishers• Greater interaction between librarians and comics scholars; comics
librarians as scholars• Scholarly authors engaging more actively in publishing and
dissemination tasks• Greater variety of networking events like today’s• Technology and innovation at the heart of new developments; greater
sharing and use of research data in comics scholarship
[shameless plug]
#citymashLibraries and technology unconference
Saturday 13 June 2015City University London
[Free, requires registration]More info at
http://citymash.github.io/ https://blogs.city.ac.uk/citylis
How to cite this deck of slides: Priego, Ernesto (2015) Comics Scholars Towards Significant Change in Academia: The Comics Grid and the Scottish Comics Unconference. Slides presented at the British Consortium of Comics Scholar Symposium andTea Party, Sussex University, Saturday 30 May 2015. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1431840
Thank You!