standing on the threshold: from open access to networked research

Standing on the ThresholdFrom Open Access to Networked Research

SciELO15 – São Paolo – 24 October 2013

Cameron Neylon - @cameronneylon

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2013

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50% Open-Access in 2013?

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No longer a question of if…

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…but how?

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…and when?

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And why.

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The access argument…

The network argument

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A theory of change?

The economic argument

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How will it play out?

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What infrastructure?

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…and what foundations?

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…measurement...

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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how

to make people click ads”

Jeff Hammerbacher

We’ve spent 50 years...

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…arguing for…

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…curiosity driven research

Saying advances can only ever be a happy accident.

And they should be happy.

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And they will be unpredictable.

But never an accident.

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You can’t predict one throw...

...but we know the distribution

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And we make the dice...

...and can roll them more times than ever before.

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We can manufacture

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There are choices to make…

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…and bets to place

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@cameronneylonhttp://cameronneylon.net

cneylon@plos.orghttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X