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The Impacts of “Impact”:
Challenges and Opportunities
of ‘Multichannel’ Academic Work
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THE SAME(RT)
IT IS LIKELY YOU HAVE ALL HEARD
THIS BEFORE(but what’s old news
for someone is always news for someone
else)
IMPACT
NEVER NEUTRAL
IMPOSED,NOT
ENCOURAGED
RESENTMENT
IMPACT
HUGE DIVIDE
FUNDERS
PUBLISHERS
RESEARCHERS(rarely)
DEMANDS
TEACHING
RESEARCH
SCIENCE(teams)
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(solitary medieval monks?)
INSIDE
OUTSIDE
QUALITY
TIME
MONEY, MONEY
(always money)
FRICTION
TOO MUCH FRICTION!
PUBLISHING:WHERE
CONTENT GOES TO DIE
ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
ONE-WAY STREETS
OPENNESS (not just “free”,
but open)
CHANNELS
THE PDF:LIMITED AND
LIMITING
NOT ONLY “PAPERS” POSTERS
INFOGRAPHICS DATASETS
DECKS OF SLIDESBLOG POSTS
TWEETS AND BACKCHANNEL ARCHIVESVIDEOS
PODCASTS
SOCIAL RESEARCH
CYCLES
LINKS
METADATA
CONTENT
INTEROPERABILITY
VISIBILITY
RECOGNITION
REPUTATION
COLLABORATION
COMPETITION
MANDATES
“WHATI PUBLISHED
WHENI WAS
UNEMPLOYED”
JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR
OUTPUT-LEVEL METRICS
#altmetrics
INTERCONNECTED OUTPUTS
NOT MONOLITHS;
NODES
MEGA JOURNAL
DISAGGREGATED JOURNAL
BY:ATTRIBUTIO
N AS CURRENCY
WHY?
SOCIAL, PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY
PUBLIC MONEY, PUBLIC ACCESS
AFFORDABLE ARTICLE /OUTPUT
PROCESSING CHARGES (with waivers for
students, independent researchers, the
unemployed)
WILL
EASY TO FIND
EASY AND FREE/AFFOR
DABLE TO ACCESS
EASY TO CITE
SUSTAINABLE
SOME RIGHTS
RESERVED(not all)
MULTI-PLATFORM
EASY TO MINE
HAVE DOIs
MAKE ITREALLYCOUNT
(qualitatively too)
BEYOND THE
NUMBERS
EASY TO MEASURE/MAP/
TRACK/REPRODUCE/SHARE
1. PROACTIVE PUBLICATION
2. MACHINE READABILITY
3.EXPLICIT OPEN LICENSE
SCHOLARSHIP:A CULTURE OF SHARING
RESEARCHER-LED,
COLLABORATIVE
REWARDING, NOT EXHAUSTING
BEING “BULLIED”
BEING RESTRICTED
“IMPACT”NOT A BLOW,
BUT A HANDSHAKE
ENCOURAGED, NOT IMPOSED
This deck of slides includes images and ideas (slide 69) originally shared by the Open UCT Initiative