{"id":1612,"date":"2015-05-07T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tamaramanton.wordpress.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:07:01","slug":"retrospect-topic-5-whos-the-dinosaur-in-the-room-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2008-2015\/2015\/05\/07\/retrospect-topic-5-whos-the-dinosaur-in-the-room-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrospect \u2013 Topic 5 \u2013 Who\u2019s The Dinosaur In The Room?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, this isn\u2019t a subject I\u2019d thought about before; like all of our community, when I\u2019ve been completing my University assignments I have found it difficult or impossible to access key articles. So before looking into this topic I would have been 100% in favour of Open Access. Similarly, if someone had warned that this can effect quality I wouldn\u2019t have worried (in English Literature we get extra marks for well-structured criticisms of published work, which is obviously easier if the quality of that work is poor).<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0having looked at the topic it became clear that the dynamics are different in different subjects. In my case &#8211; being an English Literature student -the goal of researchers is unambiguously to publish, publish, publish. But in science and engineering there is an inherent conflict between the desire to publish, and the realisation that publication can destroy value. This is a theme that no one else seemed to have picked up on so, I chose to emphasise it in my exchanges with <a href=\"https:\/\/ziaahmed2014.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/30\/topic-5-open-access-oa\/#comments\">Zia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminfifield.wordpress.com\/what-happened-to-science-topic-5\/\">Ben <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/tamaramanton.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/30\/whos-the-dinosaur-in-the-room\/#comments\">Bartosz<\/a>.\u00a0Accuracy is also a difficult concept; in English Literature all that counts is having a well-structured and defended view \u2013 there is rarely a right or wrong answer. In science there is right and wrong \u2013 so peer review of published work is vital.<\/p>\n<p>The theme that underpinned all of my postings was the concept of business models. I believe that with the right business models Open Access can work. Without it, it will fail.<\/p>\n<p>And that is my \u201cDinosaur\u00a0in the Room\u201d \u2013 business models.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I have again learned much about my fellow bloggers. I note there are few scientists amongst us, and as a community I think we have taken a narrow world view as a result. Indeed, I suspect that the views I have taken would have been reflected\u00a0by\u00a0someone taking scientific subject.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tamaramanton.wordpress.com\/127\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tamaramanton.wordpress.com\/127\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=tamaramanton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=84549585&#038;%23038;post=127&#038;%23038;subd=tamaramanton&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, this isn&rsquo;t a subject I&rsquo;d thought about before; like all of our community, when I&rsquo;ve been completing my University assignments I have found it difficult or impossible to access key articles. 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