Heather,
You raise some excellent points. The purpose of this GRID is not to
advocate for any particular "fix" to the problems of Discovery but simply
to make clear where there are disconnects between the intention of authors,
or publishers (such as Gold OA publishers), or funding agencies (those with
an Open Access mandate) and various ways ("discovery pathways") that
various users attempt to find articles of interest.
For example, in the column for allegedly "open" articles in hybrid
journals, there are some discovery pathways which are currently architected
or effectively 'primed' only at the journal level rather than the article
level. These discovery pathways will then only discover such "open"
articles if and only if the library subscribes to that journal. This,
some would argue, makes the promise of such articles to be "open" a false
promise.
Filling in this GRID accurately should reveal this discrepancy.
Various people will have different reactions to what to do about this
disconnect. Personally I would argue that the funding agencies with open
access mandates should not accept the current hybrid "open" fee as
compliant with their open access mission. Others, I imagine, would
advocate working hard to fix the disconnect.
I don't happen to agree with your opposition to value-added services
which enhance discovery. If we fix all of the free open access discovery
problems I think it's perfectly alright, in fact desirable, that innovation
in the ways in which publishers, scholarly societies, etc. can add value to
the lives of researchers and the organizations which employ them will be a
net benefit to the world. I think BOAI draws a very clear line: the
least resourced scholar in the world other than a good connection to the
internet should have unfettered access to making full use of the scholarly
literature in their field. The publishing systems needs to deliver on
this objective. But if they can add value in other ways to the lives of
researchers and the institutions which employ them--all the better.
-John Dove
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Heather Morrison <
heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Interesting question and direction. This raises at least two different
> questions for me:
>
> 1. Is access via for-pay discovery tools and knowledge bases a goal
> for open access? I am concerned that the most liberal open licenses,
> allowing downstream re-use by anyone for commercial purposes, will simply
> create a new set of for-pay services. Authors and institutions that have
> contributed to open access but cannot afford these tools may find
> themselves moving one step forward (benefits of open access) but two steps
> behind (unable to afford the next generation of research tools). This is
> not my goal, and this is one of the reasons why I do not support the most
> open approaches to licensing. I want reciprocity built into the system -
> downstream users should have obligations to share back (not the same as CC
> share alike) as well as rights.
>
> 2. Does it make sense to invest heavily in incremental improvements
> in traditional systems based on traditional materials? We have these cool
> new tools - computers and internet - let’s invest in really making use of
> them rather than tweaking a print-based system. Cancel your subscription to
> the discovery service and talk to your faculty about redirecting the money
> to hire local faculty, students, and grads, to work on open access journals
> or better yet develop innovative approaches like peer-review overlay.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Heather Morrison
>
> > On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:12 PM, John G. Dove <johngd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on
> this list.
> >
> > As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to
> use pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to
> share their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not
> each of the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles
> of interest are equally able to discover such content.
> >
> > I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each
> location of "open" content. Then I started asking questions from those
> much more knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found. I
> soon realized that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for
> gold OA as well as OA monographs and OER. If a new OA publisher is unaware
> of some advantages to providing the discovery tool knowledge bases with the
> right meta-data, for example, then their open articles won't be included in
> the discovery tool. Subscription publishers tend to know about these
> things because they have on-going revenue to protect which is at risk if
> there's no usage attributed to their journal. More seriously is the case
> of hybrid open articles which have been paid for by authors or funding
> agencies to be open but are apparently unable to be discovered by
> mechanisms that are architected at the journal level rather than the
> article level. So I ask, would funding agencies pay for articles to be
> open in a hybrid journal if they knew that such articles would not be
> discoverable via a link-resolver or a library's discovery service?
> >
> > I've now shared with GRID with the NISO "Discovery to Delivery Topic
> Committee" which I joined last year. There is interest on that committee
> to draft a "new item request" which then, should it gain support, can be
> voted on by NISO membership to establish a NISO "Working Group".
> >
> > I'm not necessarily sure that all of this lends itself to a NISO
> "recommended practice" or standard. It could well be that other
> organizations might adopt best practices or policies that would be informed
> by the light this grid (or some version of it) might shine on the problem.
> The fact that there is content which the author or perhaps the publisher or
> perhaps a funding agency is fully intending to be open to the world but is,
> in fact, hidden or blocked from some of the common discovery mechanisms is
> something I think needs attention.
> >
> > It's offered here without any rights reserved. Feel free to use it,
> modify it, with or without attribution.
> >
> > -John Dove
> >
> > An Open Content Discovery Grid for full-text discovery of content
> intended to be open.
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> > Location
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> > Discovery
> > _ Pathway
> > Gold OA Journal Articles hosted by publisher
> > Articles in hybrid journals which have been paid to be “open”
> > Versions of articles which have been submitted to institutional or
> subject repositories
> > Versions of articles which the author has posted in Academia .edu
> > Versions of articles which the author has posted in Research Gate
> > Versions of articles which the author has posted in personal or
> departmental websites
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> > Open Access Monographs
> >
> > Open Educational Resources
> > General Web Search Engine
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> > Academic Web Search Engine
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> > Link Resolvers (targets, sources?)
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> > Publisher-provided links in reference lists
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> > Specialized Bibliographic Databases
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> > Journal Aggregations
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> > Library Catalogs
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> > _________________
> > John G. Dove, personal e-mail
> > johngd...@gmail.com
> >
> > Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation
> on messaging to cited scholars re OA
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