Open or Closed?
Changing the way we research,
publish, and teach
Matt Ruen
Scholarly Communications
Outreach Coordinator
University Libraries
ruenm@gvsu.edu
Research and Scholarly Information
During your education and career, what ethical issues
might you encounter, related to research and
information?
The Knowledge You Create and Share
• What are you studying, or what will you study?
• Why? Why is that topic interesting or important?
• Who cares? Who might read, use, or be impacted
by your research? Who might be interested?
Why do we do research?
• Graduate Students?
• Faculty?
• Universities?
Creating and Sharing Knowledge:
50 Years Ago
Creating and Sharing Knowledge:
Today
Information wants to be free.
Information also wants to be expensive.
Information wants to be free because it has
become so cheap to distribute, copy, and
recombine – too cheap to meter.
It wants to be expensive because it can be
immeasurably valuable to the recipient.
That tension will not go away.
That tension will not go away.
textbook prices increased by a total of 82 percent over this time period,
while tuition and fees increased by 89 percent and overall consumer
prices grew by 28 percent.
Figure 1: Estimated Increases in New College Textbook Prices, College Tuition and
Fees, and Overall Consumer Price Inflation, 2002 to 2012
How does this system work?
An Alternative:
OPEN means:
Digital, online
Free to access
Few or no restrictions on use
Open Research
Open Access Publishing
Graduate Theses At GVSU
Open Education
Research, Publishing, Teaching:
Choices & Consequences
• In your program?
• In your profession?
• In your future?
Support from GVSU Libraries
• OA Publishing Fund
• OA Quality Indicators
• ScholarWorks@GVSU
• Copyright Resources
• Author’s Rights Support
What can you do?
Think
Question
Act
Questions?
For more about open research, open data, open access
publishing, and open education:
• Scholarly Communications resources from the GVSU Libraries:
http://www.gvsu.edu/library/sc
• http://www.righttoresearch.org/
• http://sparcopen.org/
• http://whyopenresearch.org/
• Ten things to know about the evolving system of scholarly
communication:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/s
cholcomm/docs/ten_things_you_should_know.pdf
• #GoOpen campaign from the Department of Education:
http://tech.ed.gov/open-education/