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ALTERNATIVE PUBLISHING MODELS

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Open Source Infrastructure

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http://blog-di-j.blogspot.com/2007/09/center-for-contributory-science.html

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If the system does not change, I guarantee that if I have my own lab someday, I'll submit my papers to the best journal I think they have a shot-in-hell of getting into – Jeremiah Faith (2007)

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Neylon, C. Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world. Autom Exp 1, 3 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/1759-4499-1-3

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Neylon, C. Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world. Autom Exp 1, 3 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/1759-4499-1-3

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…and finally we need to tackle our addiction to the narrative paper as the only form of scholarly output that matters – Cameron Neylon (2010)

https://archive.force11.net/node/4130

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MAPPING CHANGE

USING THE KE OPEN SCHOLARSHIP FRAMEWORK

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Neylon et al (2019) Open Scholarship and the need for collective action https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3454688

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Neylon et al (2019) Open Scholarship and the need for collective action https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3454688

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Neylon et al (2019) Open Scholarship and the need for collective action https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3454688

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  • Regulatory interventions happen late, generally after the horse has bolted
  • Very few real technical innovations have arisen from scholarly communications
  • Technology provides opportunity but motivation and sustainability (which are at the meso level) are found in the social (community-led) and economic (commercial) arenas

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  • A characteristic of recent changes and success is that they have addressed communities of users more successfully than attempts from the noughties and oneties…

SOME OBSERVATIONS – PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT

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  • Successful change has two characteristics – a small enough community that there is a shared need, and a large enough community to create value/critical mass
  • Most recent success has been largely non-funded and as a result more focused on user needs and specific communities BUT it then struggles to generalize

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  • Funders bear a lot of the blame for creating a dysfunctional economic system. Too much, too early for concepts; too little, too late for scaling and sustainability
  • There are negative incentives against identifying ways of working together across projects and building community scale

SOME OBSERVATIONS – SUCCESS AND SUSTAINABILIY

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THE FUTURE(S)

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