Hacking the Academy

Why Open Access Matters

Leslie chanUniversity of Toronto Scarborough

Learning virtually and Online

Articles

The 99% Scholarly Poor

You do not have access

Library budgets journal prices

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MIT Libraries Materials Purchases vs. CPI % Increase 1986-2006

Consumer Price Index % + Serial Expenditures % + # Serials Purchased % +

# Books Purchased % + Book Expenditures % +

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Journal expenditure

Inflation

Operating Profit Company Industry

12% BMW Automobiles

23% Rio Tinto Mining

35% Apple Premium Computing

34% Springer Scholarly Publishing

36% Elsevier Scholarly Publishing

40% Wily Scholarly Publishing

Numbers compiled by Alex Holcombe. Details here: http://bit.ly/Wxo4VA

Even Harvard cannot afford to pay for all the subscriptions

they need

The World of Journal Publishing According to Thomson Reuter’s ISI

Science Citation Index

Unequal Contribution and Participation in Sciencehttp://tinyurl.com/aou8t7v

https://vimeo.com/channels/openaccess/10169351

“Weeds” or Vegetables?

http://www.bioline.org.br

OPEN ACCESS ?

One Way Flow of Knowledge: From the North to the South

Multidirectional Flow of Knowledge:South-South Collaboration

Open Access as Enabler of Participation and

Knowledge Inclusion

Knowledge is Power

Who controls and governs the production of knowledge?

Aaron Swartz

What you can do

http://openaccessmap.org

Knowledge means learning to ask questions and opening doors

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