Managing the Transition to an Open Scholarly Literature

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  • Cameron Neylon PLOS - Public Library of Science

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3229

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munin conference 2014

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The question of radical change in the scholarly literature has shifted in the past 12 months from ‘if’ to ‘how’. There is growing consensus on the need for change alongside increasing action from funders and institutions aimed at driving those changes. However there is less consensus on what the ultimate end state will look like and how to get there. In particular two challenging collective action problems exist: how to manage the diversion of money from subscription budgets into the development, maintenance and running of a web-native communications infrastructure, and how to simultaneously encourage the cultural changes required in the research community to take advantage of the opportunities that infrastructure will bring. These two challenges are both tightly coupled with each other and with our vision of the ideal state of scholarly communications infrastructure. I will seek to chart out the various visions of the future alongside a model of how to drive the cultural and economic changes that can realise those visions in practice.

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Author Biography

Cameron Neylon, PLOS - Public Library of Science

Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director at PLOS (Public Library of Science). He is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice and improved data management. He currently works as Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science. Along with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially designed tools in the academic research environment. He is a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and writes regularly on the social, technical, and policy issues of open research at his blog, Science in the Open.

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Published

2014-12-08

How to Cite

Neylon, C. (2014). Managing the Transition to an Open Scholarly Literature. Septentrio Conference Series, (1). https://doi.org/10.7557/5.3229