IATUL 2007 - June 11 - Tom Cochrane - Global access to science – meeting the revolution

UPDATE 2007-06-14: I invite you to read some additional background information about these notes.  ENDUPDATE

Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

see Microsoft 2020 report
http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science/background_overview.htm

Global access to science – meeting the revolution

2. open access
3. e-research/e-science/cyberinfrastructure

the new science will challenge university IT and library capabilities in unprecendented ways

paper used to be a challenge

beware short term hype, which is underpinned by a failure to understand the long-term impact

shift to electronic full text

Institutional Repository

QUT has mandated research deposit

materials that could be commercialised are excluded from the repository

mostly post-prints being deposited

QUT shows top 10 authors / top 10 papers

focus on collecting research

Rise of Mandates for Open Access

Gold or Green

Gold - pay publisher
Green - more controlled by researcher

changing scientific communication
journal title = research quality?

OAK Law Project
http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/

Legal Framework for e-Research Conference 2007

*** Semantic loss

limitations of publishing

"Those who focus on open access, far from being radical, are not being nearly radical enough"
- Timo Hannay

Responding to the Data Deluge

** NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration

? Investment Plan

Challenges
* understand changing scholarly publishing ("keep up")
* readiness to lead in enhancing accessibility
* clarify role of repositories
* repudiate view that problems are too big
* knowledge of changes to science
* lead, or share the lead, in dealing with the data deluge

Q: researchers overwhelmed by time needed to referree articles
A: true but not a new problem
some disciplines spreading the load by using automated systems for blind referreeing