Fair Chaos: What Happens After Open Access? « Open Access Yarn

"The invited speakers were Senka Tomljanović, the head of University Library in Rijeka, David Blažević, a young scientist, a junior researcher at the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka, Sara Uhač, a PhD student at the University of Lugano in Switzerland, experienced in journal/open access publishing, and Kristina Posilović, an assistant professor and a member of a community of poets/writers who mash up their texts online. As our special guest, we welcomed Tomislav Medak from the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, previously a project leader of Croatian Creative Commons, a philosopher, and a member of the Zagreb based theatre company BADco. The given theme of the table was the value of a street cred of scholars, picked up through social media such as Twitter, Facebook, or reference managers such as Mendeley and Zotero. Another theme was the creation of a living text online, the difference between an author and a reader, and the nature of their dialogue. Finally, considering this dialogue and the communication/interaction as the focus of writing, we were to answer the question whether authors will benefit from making their texts available online, for free..."