In this post, joedeville.bsky.social, Nonhlanhla Dube and I reflect on our experiences at #OASPA2024, with a focus on the theme of equity openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/equity-i...
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All recordings, slides and outputs from #OASPA2024 are now on our website: bit.ly/4hK2gaM There is a huge amount of thought-provoking content.
We are grateful to sponsors, committee, speakers, chairs and attendees.
We will meet again in September 2025. Details will be coming soon. #OA #openaccess
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The poster presented by the centre Mersenne at the #OASPA2024 conference is available on HAL🙂
👉https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-04695788
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FEEDBACK WANTED: "How Equitable Is It?" a new tool designed to assess the equity of scholarly communication models headed by cOAlition S, @jisc.bsky.social, and @plos.bsky.social was launched at #OASPA2024 last week.
#ScholComm #OA #Sustainability #Funding
coalitions.typeform.com/Equity-Feedb...
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We are proud to be a supporter of #OASPA2024! Thanks to all of the organizers, speakers, and attendees for an engaging and collaborative time in Lisbon. Safe home and see you next time!
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Hoje aconteceu o painel "Addressing Integrity and Building Trust in Open Scholarly Publishing" na #OASPA2024, com John Willinsky (Stanford University), Joris van Rossum (STM Solutions), @jacoates.bsky.social (@asapbio.bsky.social) e Marzia Briel (University of Reading). Alex Mendonça foi o moderador
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Yes, Jonny Coates from ASAPbio is talking on the panel: "Addressing Integrity and Building Trust in Open Scholarly Publishing", and I'm feeling warm and fuzzy that he has highlighted how #Community is part of the solution. Amen to that.
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Niels: There is also Google Books - massive digitisation. It would be interesting to have a dialogue about how THESE books are being used.
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Christina: This is a global ecosystem, we need to work with as many as possible.
Vincent: Google puts far too few resources into these tools and they don't talk to each other internally!
Christina: The art is how we bring this all together to interoperate. #OASPA2024
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Question: We haven't heard much about Google yet. Should we be making appeals to Google/Google Scholar to support here, don't they have a responsibility?
Niels: We have regular meetings with them. 8-10% of our traffic comes from them. Any gateway is important. #OASPA2024
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Vincent: COVID was not a good example: being forced/shamed into opening work because the inhumanity of not doing so is painful, is not OA. Becoming a student is becoming increasingly unaffordable, & students really need open access.
Sofie: our most downloaded books are aimed at students. #OASPA2024
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Kelsey: We could flip the question -- the readers are telling *US* how the books are useful to them! OA is a huge enabler of impact but a number doesn't represent that impact.
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Christina: This comes back to the 'value proposition', for infrastructures as well as for open access itself. The question also depends on how you define 'reader' -- not just other scholars but policymakers, students, etc. We need different ways to showcase that 'impact'. #OASPA2024
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Niels quotes the Copim tagline: 'No open access without open infrastructures.' (THANKS NIELS!)
It's essential to find ongoing support for these open infrastructures. It is a powerful community and we need to build support with different stakeholders. #OASPA2024
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Sofie: Important to have a conversation about what this data MEANS -- the data can be useful but needs to be contextualised.
Can we/how can we show the benefits of OA publishing for readers?
Niels: If you use an example, rather than talking abstractly about OA, people get it. #OASPA2024
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Kelsey: Support is also needed for authors after publication, to understand the 'impact' of their book, whatever that means, and so they want to continue to publish OA. We share data about books on Fulcrum, as well as links to more information on the Books Analytics Dashboard. #OASPA2024
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Niels: Advocacy is also important e.g. OAPEN OA Books Toolkit, but authors are not deeply interested in the nuts & bolts of publishing. How can we support publishers & authors doing what they do best together? There is a lot to be done with research funders in this area. #OASPA2024
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Niels: The relationship between the publisher & the author is so important, that is where quality is generated. Book publishing is so different to journal publishing (YES) in many ways including the existence of more smaller presses of different types. #OASPA2024
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"Scalability overshadows the works we are do/ing." - Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Thoth & punctum books contributing to the panel: "All impact, no factor? How to assess the benefits of OA books and infrastructure".
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Vincent: For Thoth, the more OA books are everywhere (distribution), the more the benefits will be apparent. Authors google their own book! As a publisher, 'it's the catalogue, stupid' -- authors also want to be part of a curated collection of works. #OASPA2024
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Christina: There are great models being developed in the Global South that we should be paying attention to.
Sofie: Refers to the precarity panel yesterday & the author arguments articulated there. How can we advocate for OA book publishing to authors, and increase the benefits for them? #OASPA2024
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Earlier this morning, I chaired a panel on "Building Equity in Open Access: Tools, Frameworks, Recommended Practices". Equity is complex, but the interactive discussion between the panel and audience was insightful. Equity is about #Participation.
#OASPA2024 #InEquity #Barriers #Exclusion
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Vincent: All of this is not 'scaleable' but we need to think about the actual authors involved.
Sofie: We would be nothing without the authors sharing their work with us.
Kelsey: Important also to understand what a reader needs. Listen to them, make books accessible. #OASPA2024
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Vincent: You need to know WHY you are publishing something, why THIS book is important to bring out. How do you work with an author after that? Relationships with the author are important & relates to equity: some authors need more support than others for different reasons. #OASPA2024
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Niels: There is flexibility in terms of what it is, but it shows that the publisher has put effort into peer review.
Vincent: As a publisher I don't think I would talk about incentives but about care. People send us their work, we make decisions about how to share it. #OASPA2024
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Niels: refers again to the effort, work, time spent in authoring & publishing books. Mentions OAPEN's PRISM tool, giving information about peer review in metadata. Attempt to bring transparency and soundness to OA books.
Sofie: as long as we agree what peer review is! #OASPA2024
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Sofie: there is a great danger in conflating quality with numbers, and in a desire for shortcuts and proxies.
OA books are not on the fringes anymore -- 'something cute that they're doing in Stockholm or wherever'. They matter!
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The impact of books on a historical level, within the history of ideas, can't be tracked by data. The point of books is not to generate numbers. We shouldn't conflate the measurement of numbers with the distribution of books and ideas. #OASPA2024
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There is an obsession with data - the idea that quantitative data is somehow more trustworthy than qualitative data. Any humanist will tell you this is nonsense.
What do our colleagues and collaborators actually need from us as publishers? Is it in numbers of readers, links clicked etc? #OASPA2024
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Provocation: there is an unresolvable tension b/w data capture & openness. OA books are shared in huge numbers of *untrackable* ways. How do we count bots and AI trackers? The benefit of OA is to share research *beyond* data capture.
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