The "Open Movement" in research scholarship -- What is it and what does it mean?

Use the link to access the full text article published the journal Information Services and Use available from IOS Press opening as follows: "I am not going to speak about information technology (IT) today – others will. That is not to say that it is not a key driver of the change in the information environment, a change that will demand that we adapt curricula to meet new educational needs. Instead I want to focus on an important socio-cultural “force” that I believe will, as much as technology, create a transformation in scholarly communications and will

have ramifications throughout information organizations, particularly those closely allied to teaching,research and discovery. This force is open access (OA). I believe to ignore OA is to ignore an extremely important and well established movement that is disruptive for much of what information professionals do today as well as what iSchools do to educate for this work. But how do we think about OA and the long-term impact that it might have? My, perhaps, glib answer is that we use scenario thinking. This is relatively easy to do since scenario methodology is designed precisely to target dates as far in the future as 2050 – nearly four decades from now. In simplest terms, we think about a future based on the premise that all of the problems that seem so large today will be solved. That is not to say that there will be no new problems. So, we can frame 2050 by enunciating conditions that will be totally different from those that exist today ..."