[GOAL] Fwd: [SCHOLCOMM] OSI2016 proposals ready for review and comment

[Richard Poynder]

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From: "Glenn Hampson" <ghampson at nationalscience.org>
Date: 28 Jun 2016 5:44 p.m.
Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] OSI2016 proposals ready for review and comment
To: <scholcomm at lists.ala.org>, <SCISIP at listserv.nsf.gov>, <
SCITSLIST at list.nih.gov>
Cc: <osi2016-25 at googlegroups.com>

The first meeting of the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI2016) was held
this past April 19-22 at George Mason University. Reports from this meeting
are now ready for your review and comment on the OSI website at
http://osinitiative.org/2016-outputs/. *We would greatly appreciate hearing
your feedback on these reports before moving forward* (please feel free to
also circulate this email to other lists and colleagues). Published
versions of record are on the Mason Publishing website at
http://journals.gmu.edu/osi.

OSI2016 brought together a large and diverse group of high level delegates
to discuss the future of scholarly publishing---196 delegates in all from
12 countries and 15 stakeholder groups representing 184 institutions,
including 50 major research universities (25 percent of delegates), 37
scholarly publishers (19 percent of delegates), 24 government policy
organizations, 23 scholarly libraries and groups, 23 non-university
research institutions, 17 open knowledge groups, eight faculty and
education groups, and more. More details are available on the OSI website
at http://osinitiative.org.

Perhaps the two most prominent overarching themes from the OSI2016 reports
are---not surprisingly---that:

1.       the culture of communication in academia will need to change in
order for rapid, sustainable progress toward more open to occur (along with
reforming promotion and tenure systems), and

2.       any widespread change is going to require a widespread,
coordinated effort between all stakeholders (along with developing a clear,
coordinated action plan for moving forward).

As for specific proposals from OSI2016 workgroups, many are quite
ambitious. Some of the key proposals are listed below. Bear in mind that
these are all actual starting points for conversation put forth by
high-level representatives of multi-stakeholder workgroups:

1.       Develop partnership agreements to work together to change the
culture of communication inside academia

2.       Lay the groundwork for promotion and tenure reform (a framework
agreement with stakeholder partners to disentangle the influence of journal
publishing)

3.       Pilot new spectrum measures for “open” and impact (see the reports
from the “Open Impacts” and “What is Open?” workgroups)

4.       Develop and recommend new tools to replace the journal impact
factor

5.       Fund studies or pilots that will help:

a.       Identify which publishing services can/should be better handled by
others (disaggregated).

b.      Answer the question of whether subscription revenue is negatively
affected by removing post-publication embargoes

c.       Answer the questions of whether a global flip using APC’s is the
right model to pursue (given concerns about how this might affect access in
the global south).

d.      Identify the economic impacts of open

e.      Identify scholarly publishing norms and best practices

6.       Identify which scholarly publishing stakeholders can work together
on these and other efforts, and how

7.       Develop new funding models, such as a venture fund that can allow
more support for joint efforts, or improve the flexibility of library
budgets (e.g., by examining the efficiency of “big deals”)

8.       Standards development (drawing from the study of norms and best
practices, and also advocating for more clarity and consistency in rules
and regulations from publishers)

9.       Propose radical new repository interoperability and infrastructure
solutions

10.   Develop a broader and clearer description of peer review that takes
into account the different needs for different stages.

Comments, recommendations and additional ideas can be emailed to
info at osinitiative.org, or posted as a comment on the OSI website at
http://osinitiative.org/2016-outputs/. Even responding to this thread is
fine (as long as you copy info at osinitiative.org to make sure we receive
your reply)---the more voices we hear from the better. Developing broad,
collaborative, global solutions to scholarly publishing is critical---now
more than ever. We thank this community for your support, and look forward
to your continued engagement.

OSI2017 will take place April 18-21, 2017 at George Washington University
in downtown Washington, DC. For more information, please visit the OSI
website at http://osinitiative.org.

Thank you and best regards,

Glenn Hampson



*Glenn Hampson*

*Executive Director*

*National Science Communication Institute (nSCI)*


*Program DirectorOpen Scholarship Initiative (OSI)*



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