Talk given during Open Access Week 2013 at University of Toronto at Scarborough (October 22, 2013)

1. What it means to be
an Open Scholar
#oaweek
Stian Håklev (CC BY)
University of Toronto at Scarborough
October 22, 2013

2. What?
Why?
How?

3. Traditional models of publishing

4. Journal publishing process
readers
journal
copy editing
layout
editor
peer-reviewers
author(s)

6. Green / Gold

9. OA journals (gold)

12. Mandates/
policies

13. Announced 6 months ago, covers NSF, Ed, EPA, NASA, USDA,
HHS, Commerce, Interior, Defense, Energy, Trans, DHS, Ag,
State, Smithsonian
To develop implementation within 6 months, max 12 months
embargo, covers both articles and data

15. Why?

16. Expanded access and lower costs for
academics and researchers everywhere

17. Whether at top institutions, or
community colleges,
whether in Beijing or Varanasi

18. OA makes articles more accessible,
even for those who already have access

19. Giving the broader public
access to our research

20. Are the public really interested in
access? A few examples...

22. Wikipedia is a great academic resource
- as a starting point for further research

23. 22,000+ students are accessing OA
articles as part of their course

24. Enabling new forms of communicating
and organizing scholarly output

25. “The Open Scholar, as I'm defining this person, is
not simply someone who agrees to allow free
access and reuse of his or her traditional scholarly
articles and books; no, the Open Scholar is
someone who makes their intellectual projects
and processes digitally visible and who invites
and encourages ongoing criticism of their work
and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any
stage of its development.”
Gideon Burton, www.academicevolution.org

34. Ryan Muller, http://learnstream.org/wiki

35. Niklas Karlsson, http://kollaboration.se/wiki

36. After publication

45. MA thesis

58. Being an Open Scholar
Improves the quality of your research
Increases your connections, reach, opportunities
“Flattens” the world of academia
Don’t have to do all, but try some of it!

59. How do people find you?
It takes time, but quality content gets recognized
Comment on others’ blogs, retweet or answer Tweets
Conferences, hashtags
Don’t be so afraid of putting out unfinished work
Make it possible to “follow” you

60. Current research,
projects in progress

72. “One of the main points behind doing threads was
to bring the companion papers together with the
main papers. To make it work you needed to make
all of the papers open access. This could just not be
done without the papers being open access.”

73. A paper isn’t necessarily the best “unit
of organization”

75. Adding meaning to articles, enabling
knowledge to be mapped out

76. slide by Anita de Waard
“What is inside our full-text articles, and how do we improve access to it? Or: Stories, that persuade with data.”, Anita de Ward

80. 谢谢！Thank you!
s
shaklev@gmail.com
http://reganmian.net/blog
http://reganmian.net/wiki
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