<div dir="ltr">I am going to use this opportunity to promote my open scholarship survey again...<div><br></div><div>Regardless of awareness or mandates or power, what matters is what can be done. If people can agree on what the requirements for scholarship are, then someone will provide what is required. (Perhaps for a price, but that price can be openly negotiable based on provision of a service that meets requirements.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So if enough scholars say "scholarship should be X", then we will know what to build:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ifthisistheanswer.com/survey">http://ifthisistheanswer.com/survey</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If there are not enough people willing to take part in the dialogue and do something about it, or willing to stand by the consequences, then we will simply have to shut up and make do with whatever is given to us (and whatever price is extracted for that privilege).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Bjoern Brembs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.brembs@gmail.com" target="_blank">b.brembs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> Libraries are definitely places where awareness occurs.<br>
> They are the sentinels. However, they don't have enough<br>
> power (generally) to impose Open Access as a permanent reflex with researchers.<br></div>
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With journal rank gone, all that is required is a superior alternative to the status quo. Given the horrible dysfunctionality of our infrastructure, this should be exceedingly easy, see e.g.:<br><div class="im"><br>
> The only way researchers can be convinced is through<br>
> mandatory pressure from the funders and/or the Academic<br>
> authorities.<br>
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</div>I tend to agree that this is ONE way.<br>
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However, I would respectfully disagree that this is the ONLY way.<br>
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If journal rank no longer dictates where to publish, we don't need to replace this dictatorship with another one. Once we're free to publish where we want, wouldn't we automatically publish in something that's superior to what we have now?<br>
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Given how easy it is to provide superior functionality, why would one mandate people to to choose what is already in their best interest to begin with? No mandates are required at all for something every researcher would already do by themselves.<br>
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All mandates suffer from the Achilles' heel of political involvement. Once we have to involve politicians for mandates, we loose, because the corporations will always wield more power over politicians.<br>
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Obviously, I'm not against green mandates, on the contrary! I'm just saying they're not necessary once we have the freedom to chose where we want to publish (which we don't have now).<br>
Mandates clearly are necessary now.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Bjoern<br>
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