Prof. Dibyendu Paul / Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

1. UGC Human Resource Development Centre
Jadavpur University
Short Term Course in LIS
February 10, 2016
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Guerilla
Open
Access
Manifesto

2. PL Manifesto:
Preamble
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3 Fundamental Human Values: Freedom, prosperity and the development.
Exercise of democratic rights and take active role in society
Ability of well-informed citizens
Depend on satisfactory education as well as on free and unlimited access
to knowledge, thought, culture and information.

3. PL Manifesto:
Missions of the PL
[Relate to information, literacy, education and culture]
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 Reading habits
 Self conducted & formal education
 Personal creative developments
 Imagination and creativity of children and young people
 Awareness of cultural heritage, arts, science & innovations
 Providing access to cultural expressions of all performing arts
 Cultural diversity
 Oral tradition
 Community information
 Information services to local enterprises
 Information and computer literacy skills
 Literary activities

4. PL Manifesto:
Democratic Access
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– PL as local center of information, making all kinds of
knowledge and information readily available to its
users
– On the basis of equality of access for all age, race,
sex, religion, nationality, language or social status

5. PL Manifesto:
Social inclusion
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Specific services and materials must be provided for those
users who cannot, for whatever reason, use the regular
services and materials, for example linguistic minorities,
people with disabilities or people in hospital or
prison.

6. PL Manifesto:
Cultural and social understanding
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Material must reflect current trends and the evolution of
society, as well as the memory of human endeavour and
imagination.

7. PL Manifesto:
New technologies
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Collections and services have to include all types of
appropriate media and modern technologies as well as
traditional materials.

8. PL Manifesto:
Censorship and control
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Collections and services should not be subject to any
form of ideological, political or religious censorship, nor
commercial pressures.

9. Changes beyond the PL Manifesto
Libraries are in radical transformations economically and technologically.
Economically: towards commodification of what scholars create
knowledge
users as consumers
knowledge as intellectual property to be monetized
Which had a profound effect on the library.
Specially escalating cost of subscriptions to journals and databases
shrinking budget, and cuts in professional staff
We are living in a world in which knowledge is turned into intellectual
property, monetizied, and made artificially scarce.

10. Paradigm shift of Library's
Identity
Users increasingly value the library primarily as a purchaser of the
information Rather library as a gateway to knowledge or an institution
that will preserve it for the greater good.
Libraries are depends on rental of information (licensed) Rather Possession
of information (not owned)
A large portion of the library’s virtual stacks could be emptied out at the
flick of a switch, a sudden repossession of cultural materials if the rent
isn’t paid

11. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
Preamble
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Information is power.
But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a
handful of private corporations. . . .
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World,
but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.
‘I agree,’ many say, ‘but what can we do? The companies hold the
copyrights, and it’s perfectly legal – there’s nothing we can do to stop
them.’

12. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
Operative Part
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But there is something we can do: we can fight back.
.. . It’s called ‘stealing’ or ‘piracy,’ as if sharing a wealth of
knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship
and murdering its crew.
But sharing isn’t immoral – it’s a moral imperative. . . .
There is no justice in following unjust laws.

13. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
The Fight for
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“We need to take information, wherever it is stored,
make our copies and share them with the world.
We need to take the stuff that’s out of copyright and add it
to the archive.
We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web.
We need to download scientific journals and upload them to
file sharing networks.
We need to fight for Guerrilla Open Access. . . .”

14. Who is the Guerilla?
Let us introduce

15. RSS
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Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication
Publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines,
audio, video
Includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and
author's name
RSS feeds enable publishers to syndicate data automatically.
RSS feeds also benefit users who want to receive timely updates from
favorite websites or to aggregate data from many sites.

16. RDF
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Resource Description Framework
Family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications
Originally designed as a metadata data model
Idea of making statements about resources (in particular web resources)
In the form of subject–predicate–object expressions
E. g.: Blue sky
Entity (sky), attribute (color) and value (blue)
<font size="12" color="red">This is some text!</font>
<font face=" Times New Roman" color="green">This is some text!</font>

17. What is
is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of
creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
CC's free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple,
standardized way to give the public permission to share and use
creative work — on conditions of peoples choice. CC licenses
let peoples easily change copyright terms from the default of
“all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved“

18. Want to
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Keep the Internet creative, free and open.
helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world
helping to realize the full potential of the Internet—universal access
to research and education, full participation in culture—to drive a
new era of development growth, and productivity.

19. Want to
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Let people share and use photographs, but not to sell
Provide access to course materials from the world’s top universities
encourage readers to re-publish blog posts
Provide songs that you can use and remix, royalty-free

20. reddit

21. How reddit works
redditors vote on which stories and discussions are important. the hottest
stories rise to the top, while cooler stories sink.
comments can be posted on every story on reddit. comments add
information, context, and humor.
anyone can create a community (called "subreddits"). each subreddit is
independent and moderated by a team of volunteers.
reddit is open source. community members are constantly tinkering and
contributing features, bug fixes, and translations back to the site.

22. OpenLibrary.org
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23. OpenLibrary.org
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allows users to borrow or browse every published book in the
world.
cemented the obsession with freeing the mind of humanity
from its elite clutches.
Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data
are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your
contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a
widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic
programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do
it alone!

24. OpenLibrary.org
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wants to provide quality bibliographic information as the basis
for its information about resources often in MARC format.
Because of its "wiki nature", Open Library can mix and match
data from different sources
OpenLibrary follow FRBR that defines the essential things that
a library catalogue describes.
The Open Library embraces the identification of basic things
called "types."
These types are entities like Works, Authors, Editions, and
Subjects

25. Aaron H. Swartz
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Born November 8, 1986, Illinois, U.S.
Died January 11, 2013 (aged 26), New York
Cause of death Suicide by hanging
Education Stanford University
Occupation Software developer, writer, Internet activist
Title Fellow, Harvard University Edmond J. Safra
Center for Ethics
Awards American Library Association's James
Madison Award (posthumously)
EFF Pioneer Award 2013 (posthumously)
Internet Hall of Fame 2013 (posthumously)

26. Is it a Suicide or Murder of a
Guerilla?
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January 6, 2011, he arrested after connecting to the MIT
network and setting to download academic journal
articles from JSTOR.
He charged with two counts of wire fraud and eleven
violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
with maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years
in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised
release.
Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would
have served six months in prison.
Two days after rejection of his pray, he was found dead
in his apartment, where he had hanged himself.

27. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
Legal, Ethical, and Moral Concerns
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 Although Swartz’s method was legally questionable, but he the issue of
pay-walling of publicly funded research into light and the debate for
open access resurfaced
 His activity brought guerilla open access out into the open
 “..For works not in the public domain, OA depends on copyright-
holder consent. OA is … about lawful sharing, not sharing in disregard
of law. (2) OA to copyrighted works is voluntary, there is no vigilance
OA, no infringing, expropriating, or piratical OA…” Peter Suber

28. THANKS