Aligning Interests, Mobilizing Scholarship: Embedding Sustainable Donor-Funded Open Access in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto
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Hi everyone, my name is Graham Slade. I'm a Copyright Outreach Librarian in the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office at U of T and my colleague and graduate student Samantha Elmsley couldn't be here for happy reasons and she's done most of the labor on this project so I just wanted to acknowledge her lack of presence on the stage today. When I started doing
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these slides I realized I'd produced a very verbose title so in response to I produce an alternate title, Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth, and I'll know if I haven't gone to the horse at the two minute mark to speed up. So this is sort of another story from the trenches of green open access. It's
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about a project that's been running at U of T since 2015 in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Work to create an open access collection of faculty scholarship which would be hosted in U of T's repository T space. The project grew out of the Faculty of Social Work's academic plan which was written in 2011 and in 2015 they realized they hadn't really done
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anything about the first pillar of their academic plan which was establish an infrastructure to develop and take the lead in knowledge mobilization in social work. So they got together and created a memorandum of agreement with the library to basically hire the library's
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Copyright Office to do copyright clearance on their faculty's research and ingest it into the repository. And they did this in kind of an atypical way. The estate, just in keeping with this kind of a sub-theme of this conference which seems to have been dead people, the estate of a rich alumnus had donated money to the faculty and it's with this money
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that they secured the funding to support the ingestion into the open access repository. The Social Work faculty has a strong research profile in global public health so it sort of fits open access quite well. One thing, thank you, the horse needs to be coming up pretty soon.
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Just one aside, dealing with a sort of informal philanthropic relationship has its challenges. My colleague Maria who's in the audience has received a phone call from the children of the estate, the person who the library is named
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after, just inquiring about the project. So moving on, the project structure is sort of that the model is embedding to embed the green open access ingestion into the faculty. So we were closely with the research officer, we're working on putting open access buttons into the faculty bibliography pages and doing sort of more flashy attention economy
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stuff on the actual Faculty of Social Work's website rather than in the repository itself, which we all know can be fairly plain seen here. So it's it's sort of like a typical faculty bib project but with some added
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skull come literacy to the faculty and communications which we'll get to at the end. So so far so good and we've managed to secure more funding and it's now sort of an endowed position in the library that will support the congestion of social work scholarship permanently on an ongoing basis. So here's the horse part. So this is great but when we're looking at
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expanding it, making it permanent, we sort of have to do a environmental scan of what are the faculty members in the in the social work faculty actually doing and there's a fairly small group of them so we can actually do this manually. There are 31 of them and we notice right away that 16 of them are active users of ResearchGate and these 16 users had uploaded a total of
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458 full-text articles into ResearchGate and 313 of these infringe copyright or the policies of the publishers that sort of as green open access trench workers we enforce. So that's a copyright infringement rate of
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about 69%. It's sort of in keeping with some of the recent studies that have looked into ResearchGate usage by by researchers. So then I sort of start to ask myself what are we doing exactly? Are we just sort of a copyright
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enforcement arm of Taylor and Francis which happens to publish all of the big journals in the field of social work? What can we do to kind of create some other value aside from doing this work? And what can we also do instead of being sort of copyright enforcement agents
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when we're reaching out to faculty, what can we do to kind of change this conversation more towards the themes of this conference about ownership, about participation and about social justice? So with this amazing gift what we're going to start focusing on is sort of the communication piece which I put two asterisks beside earlier in the talk. So what that's going to mean is
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sort of videos of faculty talking about their work to start with. Thank you very much. If you have any questions please feel free to come right up to the microphones. We've heard a couple of presentations that we're talking
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about copyright and either how it's not clear or how we're infringing it and about a year or so ago I heard a presentation by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive whose approach to copyright was well let's just put it up
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and see what happens. You know the legal advice he got bad things will happen but as he pointed out invariably nothing much happened and in a few rare cases where something did they took the material off right away and the problem was largely solved. And I do sympathize trying to trace down those you know incorrect or incomplete copyright statements is a lot of work
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but what if we shifted the focus a bit and did it more as a risk assessment and decided so like what is going to happen possibly if we put some things up in the copyright around them is kind of murky. So I know a couple if you address that topic I'd just be interested to hear your comments on on that as a strategy. Oh yeah I think about that a lot and there are
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collections that we've brought into our repository that are where the copyright's feeling unclear or we know we're taking a risk when we're doing
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that but it's interesting the interplay between you know taking those sorts of risks and thinking about what you're like who are you representing when you're assuming those risks like am I assuming risk on behalf of my university when I'm doing that who do I need to ask
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permission of to assume a risk like that like it's it's we have like these workflows for processing those CVs and it's just really hard to like adjust our workflows to account for sort of like the apparently infinite ways that
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people express copyright in different ways. Somebody tweeted that rightstatement.org might be a helpful framework to think about in all of this and we're definitely looking at rightstatement.org is a potentially helpful framework to use with RIR that might yes help us just just get
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those materials in without fussing around so much with that. Just to say something a bit more about ResearchGate just in light of the things that have been in the news recently publishers don't seem to have an interest in
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enforcing their policies on on a site like ResearchGate and they don't seem to have an interest in special cases enforcing their policies on institutional repositories either so there I think there is value in a risk assessment framework but I think especially that the project I'm talking about where the FALC members are all publishing in sort of
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commercially owned journals they've already given up ownership of in most cases of their work and they're much more inclined to participate in the economy of attention rather than the sort of things that the IRs are really
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good at which is processing information making things available there's other things that have you know there are other pieces of the puzzle that they're more attuned to that you know they're willing to overlook some other aspects that we think are important. I just want to add that we in Latin America especially in journals I think it copyright and
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permissions is a pending task because we always state that Latin America is open and open access and that but actually since my experience with editors some much of many of them are are not aware about permissions and they
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for example put license like CC by your or another creative commons license but are not sure what they are stating so I think it's a very pending task and and again the how can we solve this is training and knowing more about it the the landscape does vary by institution and if you are
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functioning in a higher risk perhaps a more litigious landscape then then practicing due diligence and being able to show that with every item that
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you've deposited in the repository may be prudent. I'd like some clarification I have I have a research gate account which research gate made
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for me I have never deposit anything there in my life every once in a while they notify me that they found another full another full text of some article of mine and they've put it on you know I am the thing about this whole profile every once in a while they ask me am I really the author of this article well I am and so I say yes that's that is my entire participation in this
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process am I supposed to be going through and see if they stolen these things from someplace and and and tell them to take it off what what is my responsibility here? I initially had that one of those emails in my slides
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like it said Graham is this you and you click on it so so that in some ways yes their research their business model is kind of a spam spam model but it's a good question I mean in the research that we did of the social work faculty about three-fourths of the material actually had been uploaded by our
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faculty members about a quarter of it had been uploaded by faculty members at other institutions and these in our faculty members were co-authors and so I'm not sure if some of your material is a co-authored work that someone else may have made available but I know ResearchGate you know their data processing bibliographic data processing they may just have
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pinged you monthly or something like that with something that's in their database. You go on to Google you ask how many papers did I do and then if you want to you just go and look for them and and grab them in places stick them on my profile you know it wouldn't be hard to put there a lot of illegal things without ever asking me.
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All righty well thank you again to everybody for your great