On 28 Nov 2011, at 22:21, LIBLICENSE wrote:
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:18:50 -0800
Jan,
we agree that research information overwhelm is what the
system needs to deal with most importantly. Also, OAP with
re-use rights is a fully complementary solution.
Yet, the players in the system do not necessarily act on behalf of
the system, and interestingly this does include many libraries
and their institutions (who may be cutting funds for SB, and
these cuts are predictable for the SB players - but have no plan
for growing funded OAP in a predictable and/or steady manner).
In these circumstances, it is worth thinking about negotiating
national SB deals that include re-use rights. To my mind, a national
SB deal that include re-use rights may be more interesting than
any piecemeal Green OA approach, because it delivers re-use
rights for the version of record and does so comprehensively for
the whole content (potentially, from many or all publishers). Of
course, buying re-use rights will cost extra, but, on the whole,
this may not be more expensive than maintaining thousands
of institutional repositories - and the value of re-use rights for
SB content is definitely higher than for any Green OA material.
Also, the coordination and transaction costs for achieving national
SB deals that include re-use rights may be (much) lower than the
for protracted efforts at implementing OA policy and OAP funding,
just think of what the signatories to the Berlin Declaration or the
EUROHORCS members have achieved or not.
Best,
Chris
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Sent: 25 November 2011 01:33
Subject: Re: Future of the Subscription Model
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:07:15 +0000
Surely, it's not "optimizing the synergy" of OA and SB publishing, but
"optimising the efficacy of research communication" that it's all
about?
From that point of view, SB is decidedly sub-optimal, in contrast t,
OA, particularly 'true' OA, machine-readable, with no impediments to
re-use, so that computer-assisted large-scale analysis is possible.
Computer-assisted large scale analysis (in addition to actual reading
of selected articles) is fast becoming essential, due to the research
information 'overwhelm' that the relentless increase in published
research brings about. And not only in the form of research articles,
but increasingly accompanied by (large) datasets as well.
For that is the real problem: research information 'overwhelm'. The
problems of how to finance libraries and publishing follow from that.
As a result of this 'overwhelm', I see the entire edifice of research
publishing changing. Subscriptions, peer-review, the very format of
articles, funding, (traditional) libraries, (traditional) publishers,
impact factors; not far before time is up for all of those.
New concepts are emerging, integrating narrative and data, human- and
machine-readability, pattern-analysis of large amounts of information
and occasional linear reading, semantic navigation of knowledge, etc.
The time that information is taken in by the drink, like water, is
making place for a time in which information is being utilised as a
carrier (like oceans) to navigate between knowledge 'destinations' and
explore unknown shores.
Jan Velterop