Presentation at Where Next for Repositories? An open national forum sponsored by CARL in association with COAR, Ottawa, November 10, 201

1. Leveraging the network of
repositories to create change in
research, teaching, and
community engagement
Leslie Chan
@lesliekwchan
University of Toronto
Scarborough
Where Next for
Repositories?
An open national forum
sponsored by CARL in
association with COAR
Ottawa, November 10, 2016

2. Leveraging the network of
repositories to create change in
research, teaching, and
community engagement
Scholarly Communication?

3. Let’s Make Repositories Great Again?

4. Open Repositories for the People, By
the People?
Let’s Make Repositories Great Again?

5. Do we want our knowledge commons
to serve the needs of market or the
public good?

6. Propositions…
• Slow growth of IR network is political, not
technical
– Political Economy of Knowledge Production
• There are fundamental mismatches between
Open Access and functionalities of IR
• Causes of the mismatch
– The tyranny of journal and the “scientific article”
– Missions of the public university
• Re-imagining IR must begin with Re-imagining
Scholarship

7. Changing the narrative
from
IR as storefront to a university
research prowess
to
IR as a showcase of a university’s
commitment to its public mission

8. http://www.ucla.edu/about/mission-and-values

9. https://www.ualberta.ca/strategic-plan/overview/our-vision-mission-and-values

10. https://www.utoronto.ca/about-u-of-t/mission
…principles of equal
opportunity, equity, and
justice

12. Reimagining IR must begin with
Reimagining Scholarship

13. 1888

15. Format of a scientific article
• Title
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Literature Cited

16. “Is the scientific paper a fraud?”
“I mean the scientific paper may be a fraud because
it misrepresents the processes of thought that
accompanied or give rise to the work that is
described in the paper. That is the question and I will
say right away that my answer to it is ‘yes’. The
scientific paper in its orthodox form does embody a
totally mistaken conception, even a travesty, of the
nature of scientific though”.
Sir Peter Medawar
(From a BBC talk, 1964)
http://contanatura-hemeroteca.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/medawar_paper_fraud.pdf

17. Berners-Lee

18. Scholarly Primitives and Reputation?
Discovering Annotating Comparing
Referring Sampling Illustrating
Representing “…basic functions common
to scholarly activity across
disciplines, over time, and
independent of theoretical
orientation.”
John Unsworth. "Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities
Researchers Have in Common and How Might Our Tools Reflect This?"
"Humanities Computing, Formal Methods, Experimental Practice"
Symposium, Kings College, London, May 13, 2000.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html

19. Scholarly Primitives and the
Research Life Cycle
Discover
GatherCreate
Share

20. The Scholarship of Engagement and
Open Access

21. Boyer’s Scholarship of
Discovery
Integration
Application
Teaching Engagement
PUBLIC

22. "The scholarship of engagement means
connecting the rich resources of the university to
our most pressing social, civic and ethical
problems, to our children, to our schools, to our
teachers and to our cities..."
Boyer, Ernest (1996) The Scholarship of Engagement.
Journal of Public Outreach. 1(1): 11-20.

23. Opportunities for Digital Scholarship
Public outreach and
engagement
New forms of
“impact”
Data sharing
New scholarly
practices
Experimentations
Interdisciplinary and
Collaborative
research
Professional
development
Personalization
Curation
Student training
Service

24. Final thoughts…
• Mandating OA is not enough
• The academic reward system needs to
transform to include social engagement and
other forms of impact (beyond citations)
• Greater recognition of the roles of teaching
and learning and services to the community
• Broadening the definition of research so that
it is more inclusive and relevant to local needs

25. So can IR support such a re-imagining?