Trip Report: Open-Access-Tage2012

26. September - 27. September 2012 an der Universität Wien

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Eröffnunskeynote: Limited access is a symptom, not the disease

PD Dr. Björn Brembs, FU-Berlin und Universtität Leipzig

• Crises 1: dysfunctional scholarly literature
  • limited access
  • no global search
  • no hyperlinks
  • no data visualization
  • no submission standards
  • almost no statistics
  • no text-/data-mining
  • no effective way to sort, filter and and discover
  • no scientific impact analysis
  • no networking feature

--> It's like the web in 1995

• Crisis 2: Scientific data in peril
  • cut of fundings
  • no funds for persistent software development

--> data is in danger

• Crisis 3: Non-existent software-archives
  • reproduction as qualitiy-assurance for scientific publication is not possible

• My digital utopia (technical almost feasable today)
  • no more corporate publishers: librarys archive everything and make it publicy accessible according to a world-wide standard.
  • single semantic, decentralized database of literature, data and software

• Roadblocks
  • more scientists, more publications
  • only read publications of high-rank journals
  • job applications request publications in high-rank journals
  • only publish in high-rank journals

--> political issues

• Metriken
  • impact factor: negotiable, irreproducible, mathematically unsound
  • article metric levels are relevant! Journal metrics don't promote.
• Money
  • corporate publishers' profits can easily finance all reforms

--> Roadblocks are political issues

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