CONAHEC Overview

1. Opening

   • "An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge."

     Budapest Open Access Initiative

   • "The more knowledge matters, the more open access to that knowledge matters”. Peter Suber, Open Access

2. Open Access - what is it?

   • OpenAccessConcepts

     1. what do we mean by "open"
        • - how open is open? variations on a theme
     2. what do we mean by "access"
        • - ownership and access - equal/equitable

3. Open Access to what?

   • information (articles, theses, encyclopedias, etc.)

4. Open Access - how?

   • towards horizontal assemblages

   • Licences such as GPL (see OpenAccessLicenses)

   • Innovating Copyright

   • lowering the costs of international bandwith

     • - Bandwidth optimisation and management training support - the case of Africa

   • Public Knowledge Project PKP

     • OpenAccessStrategies

     • Open Access Law Canada

5. Why - what is at stake?

   • knowledge production, dissemination & access

     • knowledge accessibility , promoting cooperative communities of practice
     1. collective creativity
     2. freedom of information
     3. storage and retrieval of data
     4. control (administrative, professorial, student , public )
        • - short term - long term - traces - peer refereeing
   • intellectual property protection
     • - authorship - licenses - consentment

6. Who is doing it?

   • OpenAccessInitiatives

   • studies / articles

     1. The Open Access Advantage

     2. Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles

     3. Open Access Increases Citation Rate

7. Open Access -why ?

8. Governance and Management of Research Universities European perspective - Switzerland OpenAccessArguments

economic

• Reforms in Britain may provide a useful framework for other countries Higher education faces problems throughout the world: universities are underfunded, raising worries about quality; student support is inadequate; the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds is lamentably small; and the financing of universities in many countries is regressive, since the money comes from general taxation but the major beneficiaries are from better-off backgrounds.

  No longer only a consumption good enjoyed by an elite, tertiary education is an important element in national economic performance and a major determinant of a person´s life chances. Thus, the expansion that is taking place internationally is both necessary and desirable. But higher education is costly, and faces competing imperatives for public spending. Its financing is therefore important and immensely sensitive politically. Despite the problems, widespread agreement exists on two core objectives: strengthening quality and diversity, both for their own sake and for reasons of national economic performance; and improving access, again for both efficiency and equity reasons.

environemental

social justice

strategic

• Diversity, Affirmative Action and Higher Education: Coordination, Collaboration and Dissemination of Information

• who stands to benefit? who stands to lose?

1. Open Access - Info for all ?