General Principles of Intellectual Property: Concepts of Intellectual Proper...
Open your Ivory or Sandstone Tower
1. Open your Ivory or Sandstone
Tower
Alex.Holcombe@sydney.edu.au
School of Psychology
2. What is Open Access?
• Free
• Permanent
• Full-text
• Online
• Access
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3. Why Open Access?
•We do our research to The countries we work with can’t
benefit anyone interested, not afford journals; they’re already
some exclusive club paying an arm and a leg for
textbooks -Sir John Daniel
•Many scholars, doctors,
patients, engineers,
policymakers (and esp. in poor The academic community
countries/small universities) is only hurting itself, and
can’t get access its long term public
support, by keeping its
•Academia marginalising itself knowledge behind high
subscription walls -
•More impact! Andrew Carr
4. Why Open Access?
•We do our research to The countries we work with can’t
benefit anyone interested, not afford journals; they’re already
some exclusive club paying an arm and a leg for
textbooks -Sir John Daniel
•Many scholars, doctors,
patients, engineers,
policymakers (and esp. in poor The academic community
countries/small universities) is only hurting itself, and
can’t get access its long term public
support, by keeping its
•Academia marginalising itself knowledge behind high
subscription walls -
•More impact! Andrew Carr
5. Scientist meets publisher: the video
Academic knowledge is boxed in by
exclusive, expensive journals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0
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7. Institutional Subscription Cost, 2012
Experimental Brain Research $13,670
Journal of Radioanalytic and Nuclear Chemistry $19,826
Journal of Mathematical Sciences $17,880
Journal of Materials Science $16,699
8. OA HULK WANTS TO KNOW WHO TO
OCCUPY!
ELSEVIER!? ACS!? HARPERCOLLINS!?
YOU NAME IT, OA HULK WILL OCCUPY AND
SMASH!
Open Access “Hulk”
•Not all publishers profiteer
•The real enemy is us!
9. OA HULK WANTS TO KNOW WHO TO
OCCUPY!
ELSEVIER!? ACS!? HARPERCOLLINS!?
YOU NAME IT, OA HULK WILL OCCUPY AND
SMASH!
Open Access “Hulk”
•Not all publishers profiteer
•The real enemy is us!
(Maybe not the most evil, but the enemy easiest to change)
10. •Support open access journals
(www.openaccesspledge.com)
•Deposit your articles in the university repository (http://
ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
•Even with closed journals, you usually have the right
to deposit your final version (e.g. Word document
before typeset by publisher)
•Best for university and its funders if research outputs open
access; indeed it’s mandated by:
•NIH, Wellcome Trust
•Princeton, Harvard
•Queensland University of Technology
Let me know if you want to help open Sydney Uni
alex.holcombe@sydney.edu.au twitter: @ceptional
Hinweis der Redaktion
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-I made a short video that first showcases the silliness of this situation and then describes a few of the things we should do to tear down these walls.\n\n\n
