Jonathan Tennant - The global road to Open Science
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The document discusses the ongoing global access crisis in scholarly research, highlighting the slow progress of open access and the detrimental effects of commercial interests on scientific communication. It emphasizes the need for a unified global community to promote open science, as well as the successful models implemented in Latin America, contrasting them with the challenges faced in Europe and North America. The author calls for cultural changes, empowerment, and initiatives to realign scientific incentives towards public benefit.
![Germany versus Elsevier
“One big publisher stated: if your country
stops subscribing to our journals, science
in your country will be set back
significantly. I responded […] it is
interesting to hear such a threat from a
producer of envelopes who does not have
any idea of the contents.”
@protohedgehog
Martin Grötschel, President of the Berlin-Brandenburg
Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Jonathan Tennant - The global road to Open Science
- 1. The global road to Open Science Dr. Jon Tennant, Open Science MOOC @protohedgehog https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7794-0218 September 26-28, 2018, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2. But first, an apology… And yes, I am in a lot of trouble..
- 3. We are in the midst of a global access crisis Most scholarly research remains inaccessible to most people on this planet @protohedgehoghttps://paywallthemovie.com/
- 4. Painfully slow growth of Open Access https://peerj.com/articles/4375/ “We estimate that at least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA (19M in total) and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid.” – Piwowar et al., 2018. @protohedgehog
- 5. Slow and redundant/wasteful Ruled by commercial interests Copyright is broken Serials/access crisis Reproducibility crisis Illusion of academic freedom Questionable research practices Closed science means people suffer Science is not working as it should be Why Open Science NOW? @protohedgehog We have waited long enough, and things are getting worse
- 6. Do you believe that science can help us solve these problems? http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/meetings/2015/un-sustainable-development-summit/en @protohedgehog
- 7. YES! But then you also must acknowledge that by preventing access to research, we are acting against meeting these goals. And this is what many in the scholarly publishing industry are doing. In exchange for our money. It’s not a bug. It‘s a feature. @protohedgehog #NotAllPublishers
- 8. The regional landscape of OA China: What is the most populous country in the world doing? @protohedgehog
- 9. Turns out, not that much.. • 8114 scholarly journals indexed by the Chinese National Knowledge Information (CNKI) database • Only 8.44% of these are fully or delayed OA • 7174 indexed in the Chinese Science and Technology Paper Citation Database (CSTPCD) (as of 2016) • Also only around 8% here are OA journals in Chinese • “The central conclusions of the study are that Chinese-language OA journals need to increase their visibility in journal indexes such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and that an OA publishing platform (similar to the Latin American SciELO) should be established for Chinese-language OA journals.” http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/5/4/22/htm @protohedgehog
- 10. https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/ @protohedgehog Europe: To boldly go where Latin America has been before?
- 11. “By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.” https://twitter.com/protohedgehog/status/1036864873886412800 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7 @protohedgehog “Marie Curie Alumni Association chair Matthew DiFranco said that Plan S was a step in the right direction for “reigning in the exploitation of publicly funded research for private profits” by publishers.” https://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1377349
- 12. Germany versus Elsevier “One big publisher stated: if your country stops subscribing to our journals, science in your country will be set back significantly. I responded […] it is interesting to hear such a threat from a producer of envelopes who does not have any idea of the contents.” @protohedgehog Martin Grötschel, President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities #HERO#villain
- 13. SciELO: the hero the world needs? • Covers Latin America, Iberian Peninsula, and South Africa (13 countries) • Around 750,000 published papers, 1,200 active journals – all OA! • 20 years of free/low cost publishing for researchers • Production costs much lower than ‘western’ publishing houses @protohedgehog
- 14. REDALYC https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816693/ We are so far away from anything like either of these in Europe/North America @protohedgehog 1,000 journals from 15 countries 425,000 full text articles Generates bibliometric indicators too https://www.opencon2018.org/opencon_2018_latam What can the ‘western’ world learn from Latin America about doing this stuff better?
- 15. Why are SciELO/REDALYC so effective? • Strong cultural commitment and sense of public mission among Latin American universities and researchers: • “Iberoamérican scientists especially are committed to the movement as a way to ensure that society benefits from their research.” - Victoriano Colodrón. • Have we lost this idea around much of the rest of the world? • Or have the ‘western’ publishing houses corrupted the process? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/why-open-access-publishing-growing-latin-america @protohedgehog
- 16. Who is leading the global change? Elsevier? Organisations stuck in a pre-digital mindset with a key product developed in the 17th Century. Basically the reason why the Open Science ‘movement’ began. Business models based on exclusion, exploitation of privilege, homogeneity, discrimination, extortion etc... Who pay lip service to Open Science, while simultaneously subverting it to meet their own intentions. @protohedgehog https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science Springer Nature? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/springer-nature-committed-being-part- open-access-movement
- 17. Academics? Attitudes versus practice “60.8% of researchers do not self-archive their work even when it is free and in keeping with journal policy.” https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-017-0235-3 “In a field where OA seems of practical and ethical importance for the sharing of knowledge promoting health equity, it is surprising that researchers do not make their papers available when they are legally able to do so without any cost.” @protohedgehog
- 18. Sci-Hub: Hero or Hindrance? • 70 million records+ now ‘liberated’ • Sued for $15 million USD by Elsevier • And again by the ACS • Clearly provides short-term value through providing access But has it made us lose our Open Access mojo? https://twitter.com/blahah404/status/608609909903634432 http://sci-hub.tw/ @protohedgehog
- 19. What can we all achieve if we stand together? We need to stand together as a unified global community to make sure that we are acting in the best interests of the public, not corporate gains. @protohedgehog https://letsallstandtogether.wordpress.com/ #PeopleNotProfits
- 20. What do we need to change cultures? 1. Education, training, support. 2. Empowerment and leadership for the next generation. 3. Shifting power dynamics to reduce bias and abuse. 4. Building a global community based on sharing and collaboration. 5. Massive-scale engagement to re-align Open Science with current incentive structures. @protohedgehog
- 21. Promising initiatives in this space Open Scholarship Initiative Cross-national initiatives in this space (e.g., Plan S, SciELO, OCSDnet, DOAJ, OpenAIRE) Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools Open Science MOOC and Open Scholarship Strategy Scholarly Commons (Force11) OpenScienceCoalition Political and public activism Tools, services, and infrastructure Community engagement, training, and education @protohedgehoghttp://elephantinthelab.org/do-we-need-an-open-science-coalition/
- 22. Pooling knowledge and resources to create an open and decentralised scholarly infrastructure, with communities as the focus. Our ultimate goal Inclusivity Equality Accountability Freedom Fairness Justice Truth Rigour Transparency Reproducibility @protohedgehog SCIENCE AS A PUBLIC GOOD FOR THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY Melanie Imming, & Jon Tennant. (2018, June 8). Sticker open science: just science done right. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.128557