By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

A librarian’s view

Tullio BasagliaCERN Scientific Information Service

Library section head

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

The Library as a service provider• OA (e-)books: our experience • The institution as a publisher: publishing and (co-)authoring services• OA data and data archiving initiatives• Metadata evolution• From institutional repository to CRIS (=Current Research Information

System)• Initiatives for interoperability in scholarly communication• Initiatives for knowledge discovery• Conclusion

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

OA (e-)books

• 3 books by CERN authors + 3 en preparation (two publishers)• ‘Hard science’ titles: limited audience:

• The aim is science dissemination• The model: a lump sum pays for perpetuel OA to the book. The deal

includes also the purchase of a certain amount of paper copies to be sold at our Bookshop.

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Publishing and (co-)authoring tools

• We adopted the OJS (Open Journal System) platform to host our publication series “Yellow reports” (=reports and conference proceedings), CERN’s Annual Report and a new journal, the ‘CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation (CIJ)’, dealing with innovation and technology transfer.

• OJS provides a suitable environment for manuscripts processing and for peer review.

• 40 researchers are testing three ‘co-authoring’ platforms: Authorea, doDOC and Overleaf to help us in the selection process.

• Issues: branding + reflection on the business model is needed

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

OA: news from the front

• APCs – need to monitor appropriate usage of funding and appropriate application of cc – this implies administrative costs (=staffing and budget)

• Potentially considerable increase in the cost of publication – policy issues (=‘what to fund?)

• It’s the library’s budget that is at stake!• Workflows still in development at the publisher’s end

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Archiv ing o f and OA to da ta

• The archiving and open access to data deriving from scientific experiments is of crucial importance: For the reproducibility of results To preserve them for future generations To connect them to the related publications Because more and more often, funding bodies explicitly require that data be

preserved and made generally available. For educational purposes (schools, crowd science)

• The Open Data portal is divided into two sections: Education and Research:

http://opendata.cern.ch/

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

A joint e ffort between researchers and CERN’s Sc ient if ic Inform at ion Service , requir ing IT development and an adaptat ion of the metadata model

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Public CERN Open Data: Level 1-3

Data in High-Energy Physics

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Presentation de S. Dallmeier-Tiessen au SIPB, 7 juin 2016

By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

The institution as a data provider: policy issues

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Da ta ana lys is an d pr es erv atio n in par ticl e p hys ics

• Representatives of the scientific collaborations working on the Large Hadron Collider approved a policy for open access to experimental data

• They allocated the resources needed to carry out the project• They defined a data format suitable for ‘exploitation’, prepared the

data and cooperated to the definition of the metadata model. • There is a world-wide coordination effort among the main

laboratories in particle physics to define common criteria for data analysis and preservation.

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

The metadata must evolve…

• Is JSON the future?• JSON = JavaScript Object Notation, it uses a JavaScript notation• Advantages:

Simple syntax: name/value More flexible than MARC More human-readable than XML Should allow us to describe artifacts and entitites of different nature: documents, but also users, data etc., using the same notation system

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Bibliometry (first steps towards a Current Research Information Sy stem)

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Bibliometry (cont’d)

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Initiatives for interoperabil ity in scho larly communica tion

• An european project: THOR (Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research), in the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme

“It will establish seamless integration between articles, data, and researchers across the research lifecycle. This will create a wealth of open resources and foster a sustainable international e-infrastructure. The result will be reduced duplication, economies of scale, richer research services, and opportunities for innovation.”• For authors: ORCID = Open Researcher & Contributor ID

(=desambiguation => metrics of impact)• For institutions: Ringgold, OrgRef and GRID (=Global Research Identifier

Database) • For articles (and other artifacts: software, datasets): DOI

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By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

Initiatives for knowledge discovery

1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO REGULATE THE FREE FLOW OF FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS, BUT HAS AS A KEY OBJECTIVE THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

2. PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO ANALYSE AND PURSUE INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY WITHOUT FEAR OF MONITORING OR REPERCUSSIONS

3. LICENSES AND CONTRACT TERMS SHOULD NOT RESTRICT INDIVIDUALS FROM USING FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS

4. ETHICS AROUND THE USE OF CONTENT MINING TECHNIQUES WILL NEED TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE IN RESPONSE TO CHANGING TECHNOLOGY

5. INNOVATION AND COMMERCIAL RESEARCH BASED ON THE USE OF FACTS, DATA, AND IDEAS SHOULD NOT BE RESTRICTED BY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

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“The Hague declaration on knowledge discovery in the digital age” - LIBER

By the Book 2016: ‘Academic Publishing and Open Access Models. How open is open enough?’

In guise of a conclusion…

“We’ve gone from looking at a desert, in which the librarian had to walk into the desert for you and come back with a lump of gold, to a forest, to this huge jungle in which what you want is an apple. And at that point, the librarian can walk into the jungle and come back with the apple.”

Neil Gaiman, interview at Bookpage.comhttp://www.bookpage.com/the-book-case/2010/04/14/neil-gaiman-talks-about-his-love-for-libraries/

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