academix 2010 wilbanks

Thursday, May 13, 2010

1.we used to live in a world

where knowledge was scarce.


350 years of incremental innovation


great after breakthroughs.

not so great for making them.


2.knowledge is no longer scarce.


how many articles in life sciences in 2009?


863,291


863,291

98.5 articles per hour.


15 petabytes / year


24 petabytes / day


3. does a business model designed for scarcity maximize scholarly value?


consumer price index

cost of journals


what about scholarly benefit?


slides quoting mecomplaining about

this query...


where are the hyperlinks?


the business model: born analog, made digital...


media company response:

protect the business model.


4. open access sustains better business

models for knowledge overload.


has to start with rights.

after all, it’s your knowledge.


By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml




“it’s already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”


over 20% of the world’s journals...


educational materials as well...


5. the common thread is the commons.


“tragedy”


licensed objects via google/Yahoo!


a public resource, created by private agreements.

voluntary.

“some rights reserved”


the opposite of open isn’t “closed”


the opposite of open is “broken”


thank you

john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundationewing marion kauffman foundation

chdi foundationomidyar network

nike, inc.best buy, inc.yahoo!, inc.

mountain equipment corporationsage bionetworks

national cancer institute / university of michigansergey brin and anne wojcicki


academix 2010 wilbanks

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open access

knowledge overload

worldwhere knowledge

opposite of open isnt

better business models

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