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Who fights for change?
Some academics and universities
Governments and their funding bodies
Charities (e.g. Wellcome Trust)
Some publishers
And you?
I gave them my
flowers and now
I have to pay to
see them...
SENIOR ACADEMICS
benefit from WALLED GARDENS
Many don’t care that scholarship
Is not available outside universities
YOUNG ACADEMICS
are scared to change
things and so conform
Only rich universities can read scientific literature. 99.99% of the world cannot unless they pay
I'm WES the publisher. I can make you famous.
Vanity
Professor Felix Q Potuit has built
a walled garden
Is there
free
honey?
I'd
like to be
famous
Treachery
Scientists use publishers because their "metrics" purport to assess quality (glory, tenure, funding). And there are freebies.
Greed
I've taken pictures of your flowers
My book of flowers
is the best. You
can be editors
I'll be the most important gardener in the world
Wow! Everyone is
looking at them.
Oh no you can't.
We own them! It's
copyright theft...
Greed
WES
I can make a lot of money from publishing...
Authors give
us the content
free!
And they
give me
free honey
Scientists want to publish in the "best" journals
It's easy to
create new plants!
We can copy
them!
Scholarly publishing is profitable
$10bn and 10% growth
Animal Garden
Walled gardens often start innocently
How do
we tell the world?
By Peter and Tom Murray-Rust
I'm a publisher *. I'll help you
* not Penguin books!
Paper publishing used to be hard. Publishers were needed.
Treachery
Prezi-fied by Mark MacGillivray
Innocence
I've built a
paywall so no-one
can see the
flowers
An allegory
Our flowers are lovely!
WES
With a hole to pay through, Mr Flibble
Over 90% of scientific articles
require subscriptions
Let's show them to everyone
Innocence
Scientists don't want money for their publications
Hope
Let's tell
the world
I want a
picture of a
flower
Greed
We can give
them away
Boo!
And grow
new ones
Pass the
money
through
the paywall
I'm Tux
Scientists give their work away freely. It's for everyone
Open source
is a viable
business
model
for software
I'm Tux
Prices are enormous - $35 / article / day
Innocence
I'll take a picture
through this hole.
You've stolen
content. Three
strikes and you're
cut off.
He has three
strikes.
No trial needed. Blindfold
the thief
Hope
Law
Can you make
us a new open
access garden?
HADOPI
Flibble
You'll have
to pay
WES
I want a picture
of a flower to
cheer me up.
Publishers ban ANY
copying and invoke
copyright law.
Media companies lobby governments to make repressive laws
Yes,
I'm Gulliver, the
open access
turtle
France uses HADOPI law to ban internet for copyright thieves.
I'm Spartacux
Open access publishing allows
everyone to read the science
Patient groups cannot read
science THAT THEY HAVE FUNDED
Our open garden
will grow
Any animal in
the whole world
can visit it
WALLED GARDENS
lock up information
control access and re-use
charge money or sell the info
500+ billion USD worldwide spent on public science.
Scientists GIVE their results freely to the world.
Publishers SELL it back to US
SCHOLARLY PUBLISHERS
(Profit and non-profit)
Most are only in it for money (10 billion USD)
effectively an unregulated monopoly
UNIVERSITIES
“outsource” their assessment of quality by paying publishers over whom they have no control
WALLED GARDENS mean BAD SCIENCE
Doctors/Dentists are denied the
literature, so are government officials.
Universities are cancelling
journal subscriptions.
Can we change this?
Open Source gives a lead…
… we campaign for Open Access
and Open Data (it’s hard going)
Search “Murray-Rust BLOG”
(http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr)
FURTHER INFO
Recent blogs on “The Scholarly Poor”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Palazzo_Medici-Riccardi_-_walled_garden_1.jpg