Interesting question and direction. This raises at least two different questions for me:
1. Is access via for-pay discovery tools and knowledge bases a goal for open access? I am concerned that the most liberal open licenses, allowing downstream re-use by anyone for commercial purposes, will simply create a new set of for-pay services. Authors and institutions that have contributed to open access but cannot afford these tools may find themselves moving one step forward (benefits of open access) but two steps behind (unable to afford the next generation of research tools). This is not my goal, and this is one of the reasons why I do not support the most open approaches to licensing. I want reciprocity built into the system - downstream users should have obligations to share back (not the same as CC share alike) as well as rights. 2. Does it make sense to invest heavily in incremental improvements in traditional systems based on traditional materials? We have these cool new tools - computers and internet - let’s invest in really making use of them rather than tweaking a print-based system. Cancel your subscription to the discovery service and talk to your faculty about redirecting the money to hire local faculty, students, and grads, to work on open access journals or better yet develop innovative approaches like peer-review overlay. thoughts? Heather Morrison > On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:12 PM, John G. Dove <johngd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I thought this GRID might be useful or interesting to some people on this > list. > > As I started looking (see link below my signature) at ways in which to use > pre-publication reference lists to identify and mobilize authors to share > their submitted manuscripts (green OA) I came to recognize that not each of > the various "discovery pathways" by which readers can find articles of > interest are equally able to discover such content. > > I began developing a GRID to lay out each discovery pathway and each location > of "open" content. Then I started asking questions from those much more > knowledgeable than me about how such content would be found. I soon realized > that this is not just a problem for green OA, but even for gold OA as well as > OA monographs and OER. If a new OA publisher is unaware of some advantages > to providing the discovery tool knowledge bases with the right meta-data, for > example, then their open articles won't be included in the discovery tool. > Subscription publishers tend to know about these things because they have > on-going revenue to protect which is at risk if there's no usage attributed > to their journal. More seriously is the case of hybrid open articles which > have been paid for by authors or funding agencies to be open but are > apparently unable to be discovered by mechanisms that are architected at the > journal level rather than the article level. So I ask, would funding > agencies pay for articles to be open in a hybrid journal if they knew that > such articles would not be discoverable via a link-resolver or a library's > discovery service? > > I've now shared with GRID with the NISO "Discovery to Delivery Topic > Committee" which I joined last year. There is interest on that committee to > draft a "new item request" which then, should it gain support, can be voted > on by NISO membership to establish a NISO "Working Group". > > I'm not necessarily sure that all of this lends itself to a NISO "recommended > practice" or standard. It could well be that other organizations might adopt > best practices or policies that would be informed by the light this grid (or > some version of it) might shine on the problem. The fact that there is > content which the author or perhaps the publisher or perhaps a funding agency > is fully intending to be open to the world but is, in fact, hidden or blocked > from some of the common discovery mechanisms is something I think needs > attention. > > It's offered here without any rights reserved. Feel free to use it, modify > it, with or without attribution. > > -John Dove > > An Open Content Discovery Grid for full-text discovery of content intended to > be open. > > Location > > > > > > Discovery > _ Pathway > Gold OA Journal Articles hosted by publisher > Articles in hybrid journals which have been paid to be “open” > Versions of articles which have been submitted to institutional or subject > repositories > Versions of articles which the author has posted in Academia .edu > Versions of articles which the author has posted in Research Gate > Versions of articles which the author has posted in personal or departmental > websites > > Open Access Monographs > > Open Educational Resources > General Web Search Engine > > > > > > > > > > > > Academic Web Search Engine > > > > > > > > > > > > Library Webscale Discovery Services > > > > > > > > > > > Link Resolvers (targets, sources?) > > > > > > > > > > > Publisher-provided links in reference lists > > > > > > > > > > > Specialized Bibliographic Databases > > > > > > > > > > > Journal Aggregations > > > > > > > > > > > > Library Catalogs > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________ > John G. Dove, personal e-mail > johngd...@gmail.com > > Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: SPARC M.O.R.E Poster Presentation on > messaging to cited scholars re OA > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
