Stevan Harnad said "I am ready to adopt a different angle as
soon as someone gives an idea of which".
Here are 10 ideas for different angles
1. Retired colleagues
2. School teachers
3. Run a wiki
4. Go for an EU research project on OA
5. Graduate thesis
6. Open days
7. Journalism
8. Trawl "What you can do to promote open access"
9. Try to see things from the other's point of view
10. Vow of silence
Further details below the line
Bien à vous
N. Miradon
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1. Retired colleagues
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Retired colleagues still have their brains, and their
internet connection, and even their connections with Vice
Chancellors, but many no longer have ready access to
the literature. Consider what you can do to recruit them to
your cause:
- simple list of available OA archives and OAsearch engines?
- add list to information pack of pre-retirement courses?
- article for newspaper of University of the Third Age?
- article for The Oldie
http://www.theoldie.co.uk/ ?
2. School teachers
============
School teachers and their (16-19 year old) pupils have
difficulty in accessing research papers for their
projects. Consider what you can do:
- article in teachers' journals?
- simple list of available OA archives and OA search engines?
to recruit them to your cause.
3. Run a wiki
=============
Do a brain-dump onto a wiki. Get others to contribute.
Aim to make the wiki an authoritative source on OA.
Refer readers to the wiki, instead of repeating on the
list, c.f.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ (site currently
dieing/down???)
But n.b. that the page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
is _much_ too long to convert anybody.
So is
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm,
but the links are good
4. Go for an EU research project on OA
==============================
Lots of OA-ish subjects in
WORK PROGRAMME 2007; CAPACITIES; PART 5; SCIENCE IN SOCIETY
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CapacitiesDetailsCallPage&call_id=33
Site is very difficult to navigate. For authoritative
advice better to ask your University/Laboratory contracts
officer.
5. Graduate thesis
============
Propose OA as topic for post-graduate theses for
colleagues in management science.
Suggestions for possible titles include -
i. "Evangelism in search of a management structure - the
case of OA"
ii. "OA in retrospect - a ten year motivational analysis
of what worked, and what didnt"
iii. "OA and its alternatives - Asymmetries and Incentives"
iv. "Zeno's paralysis and the operational differences
between OA and OSS"
v. "Innovation in a centuries-old market; the case of OA"
vi. "Whats good for physicists (?and physicians?) fails
elsewhere - the case of OA"
6. Open days
=============
Invite your Member of Parliament to visit. Prepare a
poster lobbying for OA. Get poster translated into FR,
DE, ES, ... Make poster available via the wiki.
7. Journalism
==============
Get someone to write a book. Perhaps you could persuade
the authors of "La bataille du logiciel libre. Dix clés
pour comprendre" ISBN 2-7071-4384-7. Voir
http://labatailledulogiciellibre.info/article.php3?id_article=4
"Journalistes et militants, (... les auteurs ...)
étudient depuis longtemps l^Òimpact dans la société des
technologies, en particulier celles de l^Òinformation."
8. Trawl "What you can do to promote open access"
============================
There are probably some ideas of a different angle in
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm but its so long
that I have never made it to the end. Perhaps someone could
break it into hyperlinked bite-sized gobbets and put it
on the wiki?
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#What-to-do
Same comments apply
9. Try to see things from the other's point of view
=======================
Consider applying to the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
http://www.dhf.uu.se/ or to the Keystone Centre
http://www.keystone.org/spp/index.html for a meeting.
"Involving those most affected by decisions sometimes
transforming former adversaries into shared-goal
partners"
See also Open Space
"Open Space works best when the work to be done is
complex, the people and ideas involved are diverse, the
passion for resolution (and potential for conflict) are
high, and the time to get it done was yesterday. I"
http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace
and UnConference
http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/unconference/
10. Vow of silence
==============
Everyone take a vow of silence for 28 days and see what
happens.
/ends
Received on Tue Mar 20 2007 - 21:10:32 GMT