Delivered by Marie Puren (INRIA) and Laurent Romary (DARIAH, INRIA) on October 26 2017

1. Marie Puren (Inria)
Laurent Romary (Inria, DARIAH)
OPEN ACCESS AS PRACTICE
IN THE HUMANITIES
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2. Open Access and the Humanities
“The American Historical Association strongly
encourages graduate programs and university libraries to
adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed
history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as
six years.”
American Historical Association Statement on Policies Regarding the
Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations, June 2013
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3. Open Access and the Humanities
• Something needs to be done
• Differences in awareness (linguistics – history)
• The culture of the book
• But the general principles and message is the same all over the
scholarly spectrum
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4. Overview
• A couple of initial topics
• Digital sovereignty
• Publishing in the digital world
• Data in the publishing continuum
• Why open access at all?
• Looking at possible benefits for the Humanities researcher
• DARIAH’s recommendations for the Humanities
researchers
• Back to Jussieu
• Let’s talk about money…
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5. A COUPLE OF INITIAL
TOPICS
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6. Digital sovereignty
• Open access as practice
• Let us forget about business models for a while
• Open access is a normal component of the scientific
process
• Dissemination of scientific knowledge without barriers
• Science is a public common good
• Scientific results must be stored and curated on trusted (public)
platforms
• Scientific actors are responsible for this
• Researchers, research institutions, states (research policies)
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7. Publishing in the digital world
Main functions of
scholarly journals
(Mabe, 2010)
Registration
Dissemination
Peer review
Archival record
Implementation in an overlay
model
registration with precise affiliation
information: repository
high visibility in search engines:
repository
certification by editorial
committees: overlay journal
long term archiving:
repository
Application: hal.archives-ouvertes.fr with episciences.org
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8. Data in the publishing continuum
• Another dimension in complexity
• Nothing resembles less to data than data
• From digital editions of medieval manuscripts to meteorological
simulations
• Various sources, formats, sizes, conditions of use
• Same principles apply
• Openness and citation
• Cf. FAIR principles
• Findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable
• We need this for publications as well
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9. WHY OPEN ACCESS FOR
HUMANITIES?
A couple of concrete benefits
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10. What are the benefits of OA for the
Humanities researchers?
Finding ways to release knowledge more widely
and more quickly stands to bring great benefits
also to the Humanities.
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11. A new demand for openness
• Made by
• Research institutions
• Funders
• Society at large
• OA mandates and policies : ROARMAP
• Open Access for publications produced in the framework of H2020-
funded projects
• France, Loi Pour une République Numérique: “secondary rights of
use”
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12. Voluntary commitment is essential
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The researcher is the key actor of OA.
http://openaccess.couperin.org/

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14. Impact and visibility
• Depositing documents in open archives
• Rapidly made available online
• More viewed and dowloaded
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15. Sustainability
• Enabling sustainable (self-)archiving of documents
• Repositories, duplications, re-publishing
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16. Discoverability
• Opening research up to greater discoverability, via full text data
mining of open resources
• Cf. on-going legal limitations in the mining of scientific publications
• Legal success in the UK; Progress in France (Loi pour une république
numérique); Stalled situation in the EU
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17. Citability
• With metadata harvesting, documents deposited in open
archives are more easily referenced.
• Swan A. “The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to
date”. Eprints. 2010. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/
• Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S.
“Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for
higher quality research”. PLoS One. 2010. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0013636
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18. Usage
• Having access to statistics related to the publication (like
viewings or downloads)
• Systematic in open archives (cf. Hal)
• Statistics in Hal
• Statistics in Hal: tutorial
• Limits of traditional
Bibliometric indicators
• Altmetrics
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19. Precedence
• Establishing new ideas more quickly
• True even if you are not concerned with patents…
• Clear datation
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20. Scholarly dialogue
• Receiving feedback from colleagues prior to peer review
• Early citations, early feedback
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21. Reducing publication costs
• Open access ≠ free access
• Essentially additional access costs = non-existent for
authors and readers
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22. Various scientific contents
• Enabling the deposit of any kind of scientific contents
• All types of scholarly production
• Articles, books, posters, conference papers, reports, working
documents….etc
• Doctoral and master’s thesis: easily published in OA + more visible
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23. Digital sovereignty
• Personal sovereignty as scholars
• Increasing the impact and visibility of Humanities research work
individually and collectively
• Retaining their moral rights to their contents
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24. WHAT CAN THE HUMANITIES
RESEARCHERS DO?
DARIAH’s recommandations to promote Open Access
within Humanities
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25. Principle 1
• Systematically deposit your work in an open archive,
institutional or otherwise.
• Use a sustainable, free and open archive such as HAL, Zenodo, or
your own university environment
• Avoid private scientific social networks
• No guarantees of sustainability and free access in the long run
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26. Principle 2
• Deposit your work as soon as possible
• As soon as it sent to your publisher
• Possible to deposit you past publications and non-peer reviewed
materials (or preprints)
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27. Principle 3
Release your work under a license as open as possible
• CC-BY is your friend
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28. Principle 4
Deposit your work, even if you have published in a so-
called open access journal
• Deposit the full text of the author’s version
• Trust your institution not your trader
• Do not pay APCs (Article Processing Charges) in hybrid journals
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29. L’ESPRIT DE JUSSIEU
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30. L’appel de Jussieu
• Jussieu Call for Open science and bibliodiversity
• http://jussieucall.org
• Objectives
• Promoting a scientific publishing open-access model
• Fostering bibliodiversity and innovation
• Avoiding the exclusive transfer of journal subscription monies to APC
payments
• Towards a vision which is not entirely based upon a
preservation of publishers’ sales revenue
• “The development of innovative scientific publishing models must
be a budget priority because it represents an investment into
services meeting the genuine needs of researchers in our digital
age”
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31. Where to experiment?
• writing practices (publishing associated data)
• refereeing (open peer-reviewing)
• content editorial services (beyond-pdf web publishing)
• additional services (text mining)
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32. Where could the money come from?
• We call on research organizations and their libraries to
secure and earmark as of now a share of their
acquisition budgets to support the development of
scientific publishing activities, which are genuinely open
and innovative, and address the needs of the scientific
community.
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33. Where to go from here?
• Think different!
• Be open to novel ideas and models in the digital world
• Don’t be afraid
• Will my ideas be stolen if I deposit a pre-print?
• Is peer review an essential aspect of science?
• Do I have to cite the data sources I use?
• Is CC-BY-NC-SA-ND-please-do-not-use an open licence?
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