Open access, Open data, Open Society

Talk presented at Sage LSE Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences event (#hssoa) on 2013-10-24. Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=045A1ElhRNc#t=3953

Transcript

1. Open data
   Open society
   Open access
   futures and
   perspectives
   @IanMulvany - head of technology - eLife
   

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2. A little about eLife
   

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5. West et al. Cost-effectiveness of open access publications
   Not that
   expensive
   

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6. West et al. Cost-effectiveness of open access publications
   Could do
   better
   A nice
   deal
   

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9. P =
   Interest
   N
   ×
   Friction
   (helping someone)
   (getting help)
   Proportion of people that could
   use your work/
   that create work you could use
   Ease of use and
   access of your work
   Number of
   people that
   you reach
   via Cameron Neylon
   

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10. P =
    Interest
    N
    ×
    Friction
    Fixed Maximise
    Minimise
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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11. What does a
    world with less
    friction look like?
    

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13. 0
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    Paywall
    No
    paywall
    

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14. • Boumediene v. Bush, No. 06–1195 (6/12/08)
    (citing http://papers.ssrn.com/
    abstract_id=1008252)
    • Baze v. Rees, No. 07–5439 (4/1608)
    (Stevens, J. concurring) (citinghttp://
    papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=1109258)
    SSRN papers cited in the
    US Supreme Court
    

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15. 0 20 40 60 80
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    PLOS papers authored by University of Cape Town staff
    Usage data from the PLoS journal website (combined HTML views and PDF downloads). Circle size correlates with CrossRef
    citation counts. Red circles represent papers with "Health" in title.
    Months
    Total Views
    Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine
    Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
    Patient Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment:
    A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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16. via Cameron Neylon
    

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17. What’s the missing
    audience for these
    South African papers?
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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18. via Cameron Neylon
    

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19. ...here’s one...
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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20. Not very high views
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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21. 0 20 40 60 80
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    Usage data from the PLoS journal website (combined HTML views and PDF downloads). Circle size correlates with CrossRef
    citation counts. Red circles represent papers with "HIV" in title.
    Months
    Total Views
    Not an obvious outlier...
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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22. ...but highly relevant interactions
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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23. via Cameron Neylon
    

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24. ...driven by this person...
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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25. See http://bit.ly/NJOyUn for the whole conversation
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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26. This. Is Impact.
    via Cameron Neylon
    

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27. A few words
    on data
    

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29. Figure 1. Distribution of 2004–2005 citation counts of 85 trials by data availability.
    Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
    

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30. 30
    http://peterdesmet.com/posts/illegal-bullfrogs.html
    

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31. A few words on
    sustainability
    

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33. “I would say that I've operated within an open
    access publishing world without much difficulty
    over the past years, though with the caveat
    that the open end of the spectrum is just that:
    one end. At the other end are publishers still
    tugging at our/my sleeves and insisting upon
    varying degrees of restrictions. But the trend
    line is moving strongly in the open direction”
    

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35. The future is here
    already
    

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36. flickr birminghammag
    

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38. This thing launched on Tuesday!!
    

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39. 15
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56. cat picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Izno
    monitor picture via flicker user theyoungthousands
    

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57. Thank
    you!
    @IanMulvany - head of technology - eLife
    

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58. Internet penetration http://bit.ly/elife-2013trends
    Kelly Marshall http://www.kellimarshall.net/
    Cost of storage http://bit.ly/elife-storagecost
    Paperscape http://paperscape.org/
    Ancient Lives http://ancientlives.org/
    Cymru 1900 http://www.cymru1900wales.org/
    Cameron’s South African story http://bit.ly/neylon-SAcase
    Cameron’s Calculation http://bit.ly/cameron-network
    eLife http://elife.elifesciences.org/
    SSRN example http://bit.ly/elife-tax
    Mark Twain Project http://www.marktwainproject.org/
    Cost/Impact tool http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess
    Data and citations doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
    Jeffrey Schnapp http://jeffreyschnapp.com/
    Nobel image via wikimedia commons
    Jevin West OA Cost Effectiveness http://bit.ly/west-oa-cost
    Reinhart Rogoff data via UMASS http://bit.ly/umass-rr-data
    

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