Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, Berkeley/Politics of Digital Piracy (Spring 2013)/Week 8 assignment


 * You are required to do the readings on Open Access this week, and it is especially important this week because we have guest speaker Mike Eisen coming in, and I want to make sure we are all well informed, and have intelligent questions to ask.


 * As mentioned last week, attendance is worth double this week, because I want to make sure we have a full room when guest speakers come to visit.


 * Reading
 * Peter Suber, “Open Access Overview”.
 * Michael Nielsen, “Open Access: A Short Summary”

Questions for Mike Eisen

 * Please post 2 questions for Mike Eisen below, and make sure you have them printed or written down, and bring them to class.

Have you ever been targeted by any groups or agencies because of your stance on how hackers can help the open access movement? If most articles and research should be published through open access how is the authors and publishers supposed to attain money from their work? Chadyy (talk) 03:32, 11 March 2013 (UTC)Chadyy

Future of OA?: As I understand, many OA initiatives focus on public-funded research and attempt to increase access to published literature without charge. However, given the large scale patenting that takes place with the most significant discoveries (even before publication), how does this limit the potential of OA? Is there a solution to this issue? Claims to profit? : Libre OA removes some permission barriers. Unlike copyleft in software, the content i.e. knowledge gained from the article can be reused and modified. If James reads Mary's article, builds upon it and decides to patent it. Does Mary have a right to claim profit from James's creation/discovery? Like open licensing software are there provisions whereby James must also publish and grant open access to his discoveries? RKan (talk) 22:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

How can Hackers have a stronger stance on reshaping author’s, and scientific publisher’s view on Open Access to scientific publishing, and encourage them to participate in the open access movement? The term Hacker carries with itself a more negative connotation. How can the general public’s definition of hackers change to a more positive one? Who is responsible for this? Sheeveed (talk) 04:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

What role should the users/readers of scientific publishers play in reshaping the current governmental policies toward Open Access? Can you provide us some quantitative and qualitative evidences that Open Access would improve efficiency in the economy? Pphan1991 (talk) 08:19, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

In your article, you state that publishing companies of scholarly journals make a killing from charging subscriptions to libraries. Do you have any data on how much money public institutions such as UC Berkeley pay per year in order to maintain their access to such journals? Are subsidies and/or price reductions available to less wealthy institutions? Why do you believe certain government institutions, such as the NIH, have elected to make their content open to the public while others have not? 173.164.224.110 (talk) 17:40, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

What kind of resistance has OA met in becoming widely used? What groups or people are opposed to OA becoming the journal standard? What have been the biggest advances in the OA movement in the past year? Gloudas (talk) 18:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

The purpose of Open Access is to provide a larger body of literature, however, there are four barriers [Filtering and censorship barriers, language barriers, handicap access barriers, and connectivity barriers] that carry restrictions towards providing this larger body of literature. How do you think these restrictions affect the public? Do you think that these barriers will someday be removed? If these barriers are removed, do you think open access movement will be more successful and beneficial? Why or why not?Pringles012 (talk) 19:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

What is your opinion on viewing the disbursement of WikiLeaks as open access? Is the benefit of providing government transparency to enrich the public in the spirit of open access? MarkDavidoff UCB (talk) 01:06, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

What is the procedure of making the work as an OA???

How important is the legal advise in this process??? Tigstep (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2013 (UTC)tigstep

What do you fear most about the open access movement and why? ORambo (talk) 22:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC) What do you believe we can put in place that will allow the open access movement to continue while the powers that be still make a profit while not hassling the people? ORambo (talk) 22:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

How would open access change in a world without giant publishing companies like Elsevier? If there a more expansive role the governments could be taking in the realm of OA?Radeonhead (talk) 23:35, 12 March 2013 (UTC) Benjamin Porter

Most of the talk about open access journals seems to center around the sciences - are there similar movements focusing on the humanities scholars as well? What first got you started in advocating for open access? Adrianvallence (talk) 23:42, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Do you think that OA will have a democratizing effect on articles (i.e. page views as an indicator that one article is stronger than another)? What kind of work do you do in open science? Melconser (talk) 23:45, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Are hybrid open access models a more practical approach to lessening the public-private divide created by the publishing giants in the current marketplace, as opposed to totally open-access initiatives that draw from annual profits of these companies?

How significant of a role do open access models play in the attempt to disperse academic knowledge on a global scale? Are opponents of open access preventing the diffusion of scholarly journals that are published in developed nations from being spread to those which are much more marginalized in the global economy?IanElli (talk)

Has there been any opposition to OA from the scientific community (or others outside of the publishing industry)?

Could you talk more about the revenue aspect of OA? Who makes money under OA and where does that money come from? Kaylaholderbein (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC)