Publishers can not help but set up as an IT company - Congress APE 2014 - News - BuchMarkt.de

[From Google's English] "The 12-year-old Jack Andraka did not know what a pancreas. Until his favorite uncle died of pancreatic cancer and Jack put it into his head to find a better method for early detection. - He was. And was awarded the TED Innovation Award. Today, at 16, he is committed to the free access to scientific articles on the net. 'Imagine all the people would have access to the accumulated knowledge of the world,' he once said. 'Then everyone would have the chance to make a discovery to cure cancer.' Requiring that government-funded research free to circulate in and outside the scientific community, there is in Germany for ten years. She was already the primary material for discussion of the APE 2013, Arnoud de Kemp called together in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Now in 2014 it was no longer whether, but only the how of access and the question of what place claiming publishers with open access and how they can earn the money as a business enterprise to Open Access. If they are the publications of the results may hold for a time under wraps before they release (Green Open Access), or to the item immediately free accessible (Gold open access)? n Germany, the positions are not as radical as in the Netherlands, as it turned out already in the speech of Dutch education and science minister Sander Dekker. Without further ado Dekker calls a Gold Open Access as a moral right of the Company to ensure that Jack Andrakas this world have more opportunities. How this freedom is to be financed and organized, plus he did not comment on many specific ideas. , so if open access is set, sets the rules of scientific publishing on its head. This raises the question of who is actually for the organization of storage and access - must ensure the collected knowledge and its sustainable conservation - ie, for the "findability", searchability. The research can be seen as an industry, whose output is the production of results and their communication. Therefore, the question of sovereignty over the organization of the scientific knowledge of the world is also a question of the domination of the research itself, the research industry corresponds a parallel developing information industry, the scientists, publishers, libraries, and last but not least, public or private financers organize the exponentially growing number of publications and helps cope. More and more powerful IT systems put a control on the use of rules to the system operator. Companies like Google and Facebook are probably not only technologically great inspirers. So when IT companies take control of the results of research, the question arises of control over the research than those with high social priority. It is the particular strength of the organizer Arnoud de Kemp, bring people together who in these matters and general in the world of science and of scientific publishing have an important voice. Capacity as Elisabeth Niggemann, Director General of the German National Library, are not just common to find on publishing conferences. The participants paid tribute to it with applause, with lively discussions during the coffee breaks and booked conference room, which is a watchable Geschichtsort with its visible scars from the street fighting of 1945. With 250 the number of interested grew over 2013 by another 10 percent - a conference with a waiting list. In addition to librarians and other service providers, the large STM publishers were - strongly dominated Dutch - well presented, and humanities followed hesitantly ..."