Open Access Week @Exeter - Cameron Neylon

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Wednesday, 21 November 12

More than just access
Delivering networked research

Oslo University - Open Access Week
Cameron Neylon - 26 October 2012


2012


Research Works Act...


...to 50% OA?


No longer a question of if...


...but how?

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And when?

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And why.


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One argument.


Why do they pay?


Why do they pay?

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Why do they pay?
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This is a good argument.


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Another argument.


The business case.

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Quality of service...
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Value for money...

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Sustainability...

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Impact.
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Who is the customer?


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And the product is
research outcomes.


And we can do better.


An example.


27 January 2009

http://gowers.wordpress.com/

27 January 2009

February 1 2009


“It is not the case that the aim of the
project is [...to solve the problem...] I think
that the chances of success even for this
more modest aim are substantially less
than 100%.”
Tim Gowers
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/a-combinatorial-approach-to-density-hales-jewett/


27 January 2009

February 1 2009

March 10 2009


“[…] it appears that DHJ(3) has won […]
I hereby state that I am basically sure that
the problem is solved (though not in the
way originally envisaged).”
Tim Gowers
http://http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/problem-solved-probably/


“It feels as though this is to normal
research as driving is to pushing a car.”
Tim Gowers
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/questions-of-procedure/#comment-1701


Qualitatively different.


100

80

60

40

20

0
Professor

Slide courtesy of Arfon Smith

10,000

7,500

5,000

2,500

0
Professor Paper


50,000

37,500

25,000

12,500

0
Professor Paper PhD


1,000,000

750,000

500,000

250,000

0
Professor Paper PhD SDSS


Qualitatively different...


http://openwetware.org/wiki/OSDDMalaria

Because of scale...

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...connectivity...
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...efficient transfer

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Because of the network.
At web-scale.


In a world where researchers...


...are optimising impact...

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...these are our
value proposition

How do we make networks?


As service providers...

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...how do we deliver them?
US Defence Department: 090807-N-5749W-394.jpg


How do we deliver scale?
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How do we deliver connectivity?
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622


How do we reduce friction?
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http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/y_i/2360600227 CC-BY

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/andrec/2893549851 CC-BY

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/eepaul/4616804534 CC-BY

First we need access...


Necessary.


But not sufficient.


Legal rights...

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12 September 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercopithecus_lomamiensis
13 September 2012

p://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cappellmeister/39508741 CC-BY


Technical usability...

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/jeffsand/3871415191 CC-BY

Work by Peter
Murray-Rust and
Ross Mounce,
Proceedings of the
Open Forum
Academy 1:57

Standards.


Formats.


Exchange protocols.


All....

...must
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...apply to machines

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...scale...

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...to web scale.


...must support

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tomarthur/3593729997


and enable...

...the unexpected
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We’ve spent 50 years...


...arguing for...

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622


...curiosity driven research.


Saying advances can only
ever be a happy accident.


And they should be happy.

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And they will be unpredictable.

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But never an accident.


You can’t predict one throw...

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0.2

0.15

0.1

0.05

0
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

...but we know the distribution

And we make the dice...

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...and can roll them more
times than ever before.

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We can manufacture

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A question of architecture

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How?


0. Do we need policy?


1. What level?


2. What aims?


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3. How to deliver them?


4. Cost effectively?


Two million papers...

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...at PLOS ONE prices.


£1.6B


You have to
invest to save.

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We have to build a
(functioning) market

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And that means some pain.


Sorry.


But...transitional costs?


Subscriptions vs APCs

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Not a zero-sum game.


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Double jeopardy?


We optimise for...

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...rather than for
use and re-use...

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...because of the incentives...
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And who controls them?


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If we lead will others follow?


Yes.


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Huge potential...

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But we’re not there yet.

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http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ﬂavinsky/3410980137 CC-BY

...we are the customer...

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We want to see
research used.


In the right places...

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...at the right time.

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Maximise potential...

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...for discovery
and re-use...

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Maybe we don’t need
to wait for thirty years...


...and the easiest way...


@cameronneylon
http://cameronneylon.net


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