Scholarly Communications:The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly2009 Ex Libris Mid-Atlantic User Group (EMA) MeetingNovember 5, 2009Elizabeth BrownScholarly Communications OfficerBinghamton University Libraries

Scholarly CommunicationsWhat’s it all about?Why should you care?What does it mean?The GoodThe BadThe Ugly

What’s it all about?

Some BackgroundFirst scholarly journal published 1665Introduction of peer review 1675ARPAnet (internet) created 1969Creation of arXiv.org at Los Alamos 1991Online scholarly electronic journals 1995Electronic journal archives online 2000ishOpen Access movement begins 2002NIH Public Access Policy 2008Harvard U. Open Access mandate 2008Google Book Search settlement terms 2008

Scholarship has evolvedManuscript text: handwritten, hand-letteredPrinted, typeset textElectronic text adapted, converted from printElectronic text “born digital”, converted to printElectronic only text, embedded content

What’s causing change?Academia:1990’s serials crisis: rapid journal cost increasesRise of interdisciplinary researchChanging channels of communication for researchers Technology:Growth of the internetLow cost, rapid digitization of print materialsOpen Source movementRise of Social Software, Web 2.0 tools

What’s driving change?Copyright and intellectual property rights more importantPublicly funded research should be available to allAuthors should maintain rights to distribute and share their researchCreation of institutional repositories with local electronic collectionsPermanent archives necessary for electronic materials

Why should you care?

Lots of issues to considerPublishing models are changingPerceptions of ownership are changing Everyone can access, modify and share information onlineResearchers need to know how this affects research and publishingLibrary policies, collections, and operations will be affected

Who is affected?Scientists and scholarly researchersPolicymakers / LawmakersCommercial and Society PublishersLibrariansArchivistsInformation Technology / Computer ProgrammersStudents and General Public

What does it mean?

TodayQuicker publication of research and publicationsFaster recognition Wider distribution among colleaguesLong tail – info can be relevant long after creationLower journal costs for institution? (some debate)Access to more materials than through subscriptions alone

TomorrowPreserve Institutional (and disciplinary) memories: data, ephemera, scholarshipCalculate the impact of scholarly output from authors and institutionsAlternative metrics for scholarship: Preserve intellectual property rights through creative commons licenses and author addenda to copyright transfer forms

Subject RepositoriesarXiv.orgPhysics, MathematicsrePEc EconomicsE-LISLibrary &Information ScienceDlist Information SciencePhilSci Philosophy of ScienceCogPrintsPsychologyPubMedCentralHealth, Nursing, BiologyNature Preceedings Science

Repository DirectoriesROAR Registry of Open Access RepositoriesDOAJ Directory of Open Access JournalsOpen DOAR Open Directory of Open Access JournalsOpen J Gate Search platform: Open Access JournalsSHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Archiving, Copyright PoliciesOAIster Union Catalog of Digital Collections

The Good

User Generated ContentSocial MediaShared, contributed tools and sitesAmazon.com book reviewsWikipediaSocial Tools: Self Publishing: Open AccessOnline Collaboration between researchers

Online Collaboration in Chemistry

Useful Chem

Chemistry Development Toolkit (CDT)

Open Science Project

ChemSpider

Open Babel

The Bad

Policies are EvolvingNon-uniform Open Access campus and publisher mandatesOpen Access terms and conditionsRepository names and contentEmbargo periods varyLicensing terms and conditions

One size does not fit allCopyright and fair use requires interpretationnot interpreted consistently by all

Information is in silosRepositories developed outside traditional publishing environmentStandards have been developed but not embedded into all platforms: OAI-PMH: Metadata HarvestingOAI-ORE: Object Reuse & Exchange

Scanning is messy

The Ugly

Who controls information?Google Book Search (GBS) and Settlement Federal Deposit Mandate Legislation: US Fair Copyright in Research Works Act: HR 6845, HR 801Publisher responses to Open Access:Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM)Professional Societies: are they for profit or non-profit?

Who sets and enforces policies?ResearchersFunding agenciesInstitutions / Campuses/ GovernmentLibrariesPublishersWeb Search Engines

It’s a messy environmentBibliographic control ≠ OPAC standardsLibraries may not be involved in process (GBS, NIH Public Access Policy)Advocacy vs. zealotry: when does it cross the line?

More InformationGoogle Book Search Settlement http://wo.ala.org/gbs/http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/Copyright and Fair Use toolsCopyright slider: http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/Section 108 spinner: http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/Creative Commons licensing: http://creativecommons.org/Open Access (BioMedCentral) http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/openaccessScholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/index.shtml

Thank YouElizabeth BrownScholarly Communications and Library Grants OfficerBinghamton University LibrariesScholarly Communications at Binghamton Universityebrown@binghamton.edu(607) 777-4882eabrown25 Presentation Online:http://www.slideshare.net/my-slidespace