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Emerging Research and Educational Opportunities in the Open Access Knowledge Environment

Beyond Open Access. Emerging Research and Educational Opportunities in the Open Access Knowledge Environment. Leslie Chan University of Toronto Scarborough. A South-North Collaboration. www.bioline.org.br.

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Emerging Research and Educational Opportunities in the Open Access Knowledge Environment

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  1. Beyond Open Access Emerging Research and Educational Opportunities in the Open Access Knowledge Environment Leslie Chan University of Toronto Scarborough

  2. A South-North Collaboration www.bioline.org.br

  3. Usage of publications from developing country research distributed by Bioline International

  4. Why Journals? Registration Authentication and Quality Control Dissemination Reward - Citation Archiving

  5. Reputation and Authority Management

  6. Open Access is Disruptive Reconfiguring Quality and Reputation Reconfiguring Knowledge Domain and Representation

  7. Military Spending 2002 http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=279

  8. Dominant Model of Knowledge Dissemination: From the Centre to Peripheries “lost science” Perpetual the cycle of knowledge poverty and dependence

  9. Lown and Banerjee (2006) The Developing World in The NJM

  10. OA is shifting the “centre” of knowledge production Decentralization

  11. Open access enable Peer-to-Peer sharing … and new model of Knowledge creation, Sharing, and Dissemination

  12. http://www.elac.edu/faculty/titlev/images/web2_0.png

  13. Some Potential Metrics • Research funding • Students • Prizes • h-index • G-factor • Co-authorships • Number of articles • Number of publishing years • Semiometrics (latent semantic indexing, text overlap, etc.) • Citations (C) • CiteRank • Co-citations • Downloads (D) • C/D Correlations • Hub/Authority index • Chronometrics: Latency/Longevity • Endogamy/Exogamy • Book citation index

  14. Open Access is Generative

  15. “Generatives” and changing markets “ The future is conversational: when there's more good stuff that you know about that's one click away or closer than you will ever click on, it's not enough to know that some book is good. The least substitutable good in the Internet era is the personal relationship. Conversation, not content, is king. “ Cory Doctorow 2006 http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html

  16. “Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technology. It happnes when society adopts new behaviours”

  17. Traditional Business Models Subscription Licensing Pay-per-view Users $ $ Closed Content Content producers Research Capital Development

  18. Print is “degenerative”

  19. http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/media/chimpcalls.html

  20. New Business Models Authority Trust Findability Personalization Immediacy Coherent and structured Generative layer Overlay services Open Source Open Access Fragmented and scattered Content layer Research Capital Development

  21. http://www.mendeley.com/

  22. Dr. P.Balaram, IISc Bangalore India http://openoasis.org

  23. Open Access is Changing What Counts Made Sure YOU are Counted!

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