The conference Facing the Future: European Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences Berlin, november 2014 http://facingthefuture.gwi-berlin.de/programme/ The conference Facing the Future: European Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences, initiated by the Social and Cultural Innovation Strategy Working Group of ESFRI and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and hosted by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) and the German Data Forum (RatSWD), invites humanities and social science experts, policy makers, and scientific research infrastructure coordinators to engage in a productive exchange of ideas for a roadmap to strengthen humanities and social sciences alike. The aim of the conference is to identify and discuss relevant topics - e.g. possible ways of getting countries more involved in the current roadmap and the importance of "big data" across different domains - and to highlight opportunities for an excellent research environment as a foundation for innovative research today and in the future.

1. OPEN ACCESS TO
BIBLIODIVERSITY
November 2013 – Facing the future – Berlin - ESFRI
Marin Dacos (CNRS) – Director - OpenEdition

2. Paris
Marseilles
Lisbon
Turino

4. 400
journals
France :
316
Yemen
Thailand
Slovenia
Serbie
Peru
Mexico
Morocco
Luxembourg
Kirghizstan
Iran
United States
Egypt
Chile
Angola
Algeria
Turkey
Syria
Israel
China
Germany
Spain
Italie
Brazil
Canada
Belgium
Portugal
Switzerland
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16

6. France : 16
700
23000
events
Number of events by country
Russia
Hungary
Ireland
Estonia
Finland
Poland
Kingdom of Sweden
Holland
Czechia
Denmark
Greece
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Romania
Kingdom of Spain
Federal Republic of Germany
Britain
Italian Republic
Switzerland
Portugal
Belgium
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800

8. Number of blogs
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013 projection

12. Language based documentation ressources

14. Open
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16. Already 30 presses. New publishers are joining
From Canada
From Denmark
From Germany
From Mexico
From Colombia
From Italy
From Argentina
From Brazil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkb86/8554933153/sizes/o/

17. We propose
Bibliodiversity !
Combination of biblio + diversity, like in biodiversity.
As in the ecosystem, diversity is a key for innovation, evolution and
adaptability

18. Diversity for culture, publishing and research
• Diversity of languages
(not only English)
• Diversity of disciplines
(not only physics)
• Diversity of types of publications
(not only articles! Books are also important)
• Diversity of players
(not only Oxford)

19. The old power relations
are evolving as non-anglophones embrace open access
Now Scielo competes with
JSTOR.
Blue : JSTOR (restricted access) - Red : Scielo.br (open
access)

21. Maps show interest from a lot of
countries
Source : http://logs.openedition.org

22. OpenEdition annual # of visits
40,000,000
Who said that HSS do not
interest people outside
academia?
35,000,000
30,000,000
25,000,000
20,000,000
15,000,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
0
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

23. But we still have work to do
Threats to diversity : “Matthew effect”
(Robert King Merton, 1968)
“The winner takes it all”
Tends to produce a domination of
monocultures…
- Disciplines
- Languages
- Types of publications
- Players
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/76969
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24. Disciplines & languages
“The world’s most trusted citation index”
“Covering the leading scholarly literature”

25. In fact, the WOS is an island ignoring the majority of
journals
Only
this
But not …
In HSS, only 60 of 1000 French peer-reviewed journals are in
WOS !

26. But not Annales !
Historia and Positif
Magazines you can buy in a newsagent's
The most prestigious
French-language history journal, founded
by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch
And not Études
photographiques
The reference in photographic studies
Who said “Covering the leading scholarly literature” ?

27. The system is broken
Is it protectionism ?
Is it ignorance ?
It is violence against
diversity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpstorm/879782403/
We need serious new metrics

28. “The winner takes it all”
Disciplines
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/7696925948
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29. Construction cost (M€)
of European infrastructures (ESFRI)
4000
3500
3000
2500
Without initial investment,
No initiative,
Without initiative,
No viable proposition,
Without viable proposition,
No leadership,
Without leadership,
No investment...
… and no diversity
2000
1500
1000
500
1%
0
Social Sciences and
Humanities
Environmental Sciences
Energy
Biological
Materials&and
Analytical Facilities
Physical Sciences and
Engineering
Source : Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2010

30. Humanites and social sciences are going
digital
They call for infrastructures
« We call for the creation of scalable
digital infrastructures responding to
real
needs.
These
digital
infrastructures
will
be
built
iteratively, based upon methods and
approaches that prove successful in
research communities. »
They will promote bibliodiversity in open

31. TACTICAL PROPOSALS
I
Publishing is often forgotten in research infrastructures because we focus on
research processes
Yet, it is the best way to convince our big bosses, just because of PUBLIC USE
Not only colleagues : usage by journalists, teachers, students and other people,
etc. The same public that Wikipedia
REMEMBER : 35 000 000 visits, 19 000 000 unique visitors
(impossible in restricted access)
http://fr.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5687300963

32. TACTICAL PROPOSALS
II
• Consider publishing as a node, or the missing link
between public demand and the deep research work
(rules of evidence)
• Visualization may be considered as a good example of
connecting both parts
• Models :
– DPLA
– Hypotheses
http://fr.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5687300963

33. TACTICAL PROPOSALS
III
If people love science (i.e. HSS)
Policy makers will provide money for it
How can we help people to like humanities and social sciences ?
By building attractive infrastructures !
Being boring
is not a sign of scientific quality !
http://fr.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5687300963

34. THINK ABOUT NASA AND CERN
Highly technical and abstract disciplines
With a clear and professionnal will of communication

35. REMEMBER
BIBLIODIVERSITY
FOR OPEN ACCESS AND (VERY) ATTRACTIVE DISCIPLINES
WITH AT LEAST A CONTINENTAL AMBITION
WITH (VERY) STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH THE RESEARCH
COMMUNITIES
WITH (VERY VERY) STRONG INTEREST IN PUBLIC USE
http://fr.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-5687300963

36. marin.dacos@openedition.
org
http://twitter.com/openmarin
Thanks to the OpenEdition team!