bjoern.brembs.blog » SHARE: Library-based publishing system becoming a reality?

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-06-11

Summary:

"The recently released development draft for SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), released by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in response to the OSTP memo on public access to federally funded research in the US sounds a lot like the library-based publishing system I’ve been perpetually arguing for. It’s even in our paper on the pernicious consequences of journal rank. Could this be the initial step to break the stranglehold publishers have on scholarly communication? Here some key excerpts from the document ... In principle, this sounds almost verbatim like the system I advocate, with a few exceptions. Clearly, SHARE is still a ‘green’ OA route, meaning that regular journal publishing still occurs. I see no major issue with this, as some transition period will inevitably be required. The import part is that we wrestle at least some control over our literature back from the publishers.  I also find it important to point out the combined effort of these organizations to integrate the data mandates with the literature. Now we are only missing software requirements – I wonder why these are missing?  Another task not mentioned will be to integrate the back-archives of all the published literature into SHARE. Once we could get that incorporated, we’d potentially be able to offer a superior search, filter and discovery system than anything currently on the market – a system which I would guess to be crucial for weaning ourselves from publishers altogether, eventually.  In conclusion, this might be a very first, baby-step of our emancipation from corporate publishers. If we take the example of SciELO, and inspire  concerted action of a critical mass of institutions of higher education and research, we might just be able to achieve a fully functional scholarly communication system, perhaps even within this generation. Now is the time to provide our feedback to this draft. I think open access activists should get together and tell them what needs to happen."

Link:

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/06/share-library-based-publishing-system-becoming-a-reality/

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oa.new oa.data oa.publishers oa.comment oa.mandates oa.usa oa.green oa.universities oa.libraries oa.ir oa.interoperability oa.software oa.librarians oa.funders oa.scielo oa.ostp oa.colleges oa.obama_directive oa.share oa.repositories oa.hei oa.policies

Date tagged:

06/11/2013, 13:52

Date published:

06/11/2013, 09:52