1. What happens when public knowledge
is made private?

2. Are we happy that the public
is excluded from
access to publicly funded research?

3. Should commercial profit
come before the free sharing
of scientific knowledge?

4. About me...

6. Salford

7. Manchester

8. Preston

11. Open Source Publishing
in Academia
Why is it important to the Pirate Party?

12. Peer-review Process
Research
Writing
Submission
Review by editor
Expert reviews
Revision
2nd review
Typesetting
Copy editing
Printing/ePrints
Distribution

13. Why do academics
publish?
Sharing knowledge
Transparency
Accountability
Marking territory
Impact Factor

14. Who benefits?

15. ‘Serial Crisis’
• Cost of periodical rising
• Library funding going
down in real terms
• Price inelasticity
• More research

16. Papers published by top 3 publishers
42%

17. Revenue going to top 10 publishers
43%

18. Value generated by academic journal publishing
$19 billion
McGuigan GS, Russell RD. (2008)

21. $10 Billion could buy
universal schooling for
children in the world’s
conflict zones

22. Copyright is about protecting
the author - isn’t it?

23. What happens when I can’t
access or share things I’m the author of?

27. "As a dedicated and long-term
Mac user, I am surprised and a
little unhappy at how hard it is
for Mac users to access the
story."

28. Impact Factors
Citation reports
14,000 Journals
Major role in ranking and funding
Commercially owned database

29. No copyright transfer
=
No publication
=
Poor Impact Factor
=
Poor career prospects

31. Open Access

32. John Willinsky
Professor of Literacy and Technology
Open Journal System University of British Columbia
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca
1998: PKP Launch
2001: First OS software launch
2005: OJS v2 launched
2006: 400 OA journals
Current version 2.2.2
8 languages
Further 10 in development

33. 300,000 Peer Reviewed Journals
5,000 Open Access Journals

34. Funding Access
Pay per view
Publishing fee
Institutional subsidy
Advertising

35. Who benefits?

36. Developing countries
Libraries
Funding bodies
Those seeking transparency
Academics seeking citation

37. Pirate Parties should consider:

38. Mandating that all publicly funded
research is published in Open Access
forums

39. Ensuring this happens in a timely
fashion

40. Supporting mechanisms for
measuring Open Access impact
factors

41. Linking research funding to these
measures

42. Supporting self archiving

43. Ensuring publication, teaching and
research rights remains with the
author or institution

44. Research
knowledge
becomes a
public
resource
Knowledge
Economy

45. Jason.Rutter@soc.kuleuven.be
http://www.slideshare.net/Jasieboy