[GOAL] COVID budget cuts, big deals, faculty positions and salaries & bibliodiversity

Wed Apr 22 09:13:49 BST 2020

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:09 AM Paul THIRION <Paul.Thirion at uliege.be> wrote:

> Hi Heather
>
> For example,  a slide I usually present to  researchers.
>
> Very effective indeed
>
have any paywalls have come down as a result?

My own demo should also be compelling, but actually no one cares:

Try looking for information on vaccines in Taylor and Francis:
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=vaccine
48K hits.
Now do this for openly accessible articles:
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=vaccine&content=standard&countTerms=true&target=default&startPage=0&pageSize=10&access=user
12K hits.
so 75% of the T+F literature on "vaccine" is paywalled.
You can send this demo to your MP, MEP, Congressperson,  and tell them that
PAYWALLS KILL PEOPLE

Take this message to people who can DO something about it. Actively rebel
against this system
Meanwhile if you want to collect bibliography-driven scientific knowledge
in this area, join us at the EU Hackathon https://euvsvirus.org.
Don't just talk about how we might change things,
help build a better system.
http://github.com/petermr/openvirus
Please mail me if you want to take part.

Best regards

>
>
> Le 21/04/20 à 20:08, Heather Morrison a écrit :
>
> Many governments are, or will, need to divert funds from the usual
> priorities to address the pandemic and issues arising such as economic
> impact. No doubt this will impact many post-secondary institutions. For
> example, yesterday we learned that post-secondary institutions in Manitoba
> have been asked to decrease expenditures by 30%
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-universities-budget-cuts-pandemic-1.5537883
>
> Most faculty members are not involved in making decisions about library
> budgets. They likely see the big deals of commercial publishers as a
> service that they do not wish to lose, rather than high-priced services
> that are paid for from the same pool of funds that pay their salaries.
>
> One way to help faculty understand would be to prepare an explanation of
> the cost of the big deals that puts the two together, i.e. if we need to
> cut something, should be cut x number of faculty positions or big deal y
> (or x% of faculty salaries v. big deal y), for presentation to faculty
> associations and university administrators.
>
> Explaining the financial and academic-social benefits of an approach
> prioritizing bibliodiversity would be a little bit more complicated, but
> arguments that faculty would likely understand and support can be made. For
> example, instead of 100% of savings from cancelling all big deals to retain
> as many faculty as possible, perhaps using 80% of savings for this purpose
> and using the remainder to provide salaries for academics and support staff
> in local publishing (university press, scholarly society or library-based).
>
> I suspect this is best done proactively, early on when discussions about
> how to go about cuts are getting started.
>
> Is anyone doing anything like this? Thoughts?
>
> Dr. Heather Morrison
>
> Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
>
> Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
>
> Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight
> Project
>
> sustainingknowledgecommons.org
>
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>
> https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706
>
> [On research sabbatical July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020]
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