TAKING ACTION IN A CRITICAL MOMENT Katherine Skinner, PhD 24 th Annual NC Serials Conference, March 6, 2015 Chapel Hill, NC from innovation to impact

faculty, researchers, administrators, university presses, libraries, research centers, societies, students, archives, nonprofits, consortia, commercial publishers, editors, technologists 2

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Beware changes in the modes of communication… 6

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Innovations don’t typically come from the center, they come from unexpected locations 8

Innovations don’t typically come from the center, they come from unexpected locations 9

Cultural processes of production, distribution, and reception depend upon… 10

networks of people 11

System-wide changes require system-wide involvement. (or sometimes, a policy change) 12

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Source: Sarah Glassmeyer,

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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem. -GK Chesterton 23

So let’s look at the ways we’ve tried to address the crisis so far. The Big Deal. (Success! Ahem.) Institutional Repositories Open Access policies Consortial pricing and raiding the materials budget. Research and publishing about the Big Deal (especially Bergstrom et al) Terminating Big Deal contracts publically and thoughtfully Engaging in publishing activities ourselves 24

Interdependence of systems 25

from innovation to collective impact 26

Backbone Support Continuous Communications Mutually Reinforcing Activities Shared Measurement Common Agenda 27

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What next? 29

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