Welcome address

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Welcome address
Open Archives Seminar Facilitating free and
efficient scientific communication DTU Lyngby 18
February 2004

• Knut Conradsen
• Vice-Rektor
• Technical University
• Of Denmark

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Introducing the context
Open Archives Seminar Facilitating free and
efficient scientific communication DTU Lyngby 18
February 2004

• Mogens Sandfær
• Center for VidenTeknologi
• DTV DTU
• ms_at_dtv.dk

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Scholarly information society

• To be useful, scientific results need to be used,
  read, cited, shared, applied, extended,
  built-upon
• For that, they must be accessible
• As accessible as at all possible
• With the migration to e-publishing this should
  (have) become much easier
• But a crisis has occurred in scientific journal
  publishing ...

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Journal prises out of control
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Reforming the system

• International initiatives
• SPARC Create Change Initiative
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Public Library of Science
• Open Archives Initiative
• Self archiving Institutional repositories
• Self archiving Preprint servers
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access

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Towards open access as a universal principle for
scholarly activities

• The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to
  Knowledge in Science and Humanities, Oct 03
• Major national and international organisations of
  science and culture consider their mission only
  half complete if the information they produce is
  not made freely available to society.
• The Internet has fundamentally changed the
  practical and economic realities of distributing
  scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For
  the first time ever, the Internet now offers the
  chance to constitute a global and interactive
  representation of human knowledge, including
  cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide
  access.

OAI3 CERN Feb 2004
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Why act now? New Opportunities

• Journal crisis is symptom of an outdated and
  inadequate system of scholarly communication in
  the era of Internet and emerging eScience
• Distributed work in Science and Humanities
  requires unlimited access to information.
• Interactive scholarly communication and
  evaluation increase efficiency of knowledge
  generation.
• Unrestricted access to comprehensive information
  (data, analysis) increases accountability and
  enhances quality control
• Unrestricted access fosters emerging science at
  the crossings of traditional disciplines.

Open Access increases quality and excellency of
science
OAI3 CERN Feb 2004
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Developments Surrounding the OAI
OAI3 CERN Feb 2004

• Within its Community of Supporters,
• The OAI has contributed to a growing
  "Dis-Integration" and "Dis-Location" of
  Scientific Publishing from total control by a
  mighty few" scientific publishers ...
• Serious challenges to the practice of signing
  away Authors Rights to the publishers and
  growing awareness among scientists of their
  Freedom to Self-Publish and Self-Archive.
• While serving to challenge the Publishers
  Economic Models on several fronts (pricing
  strategies, profit at the cost of educational
  institutions, actual cost of producing scientific
  journals, etc.), the OAI movement has also had
  the peripheral effect of challenging fundamental
  Scientific Concepts of internal Quality Control
  through Peer Review, Citation Frequency and
  Impact Factors
• and has contributed to spurring on new
  community-based methods of Peer Review and new
  strategies for measuring Quality of Content

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DEF E-publishing initiatives

• Organisational political issues
  Standardisation, (copy)rights, dialogue and
  dissemination
• Institutional Repositories
• E-migrating non-commercial journals
• Preprints, eprints, reports etc.
• National research database