1. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK Rethinking the University after Bologna: New Concepts and Practices beyond Tradition and the Market UCSIA Interdisciplinary Conference 12 th – 13 th of December 2008 University of Antwerp

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4.  Enabling and encouraging intellectual endeavour  Scholarship for its own worth  Collaborative spirit in the furtherance of society  Collegiate view of the academic community worldwide Key Perspectives Ltd

5.  Bayh-Dole  Governments requiring universities to exploit IP  Encouraged an attitude of risk-taking (which is not a core value of the academy)  Fostered a spirit of competition between academic institutions (a serious one)  Funding “linked to strategic priorities and specific outcomes rather than philanthropy” (Wellings)  Loss of the public service model  “Lofty ideal became lowly ambition” (Macdonald)  Secrecy transcended sharing  Compromise of the commons Key Perspectives Ltd

6.  Knowledge created in the academy was disseminated as effectively as possible by scholarly societies and university presses  Base values:  Collaboration and cooperation  Sharing  Societal benefit Key Perspectives Ltd

7.  Relinquished to commercial publishers (N.B. are they entrepreneurial and risk-taking?)  Even academy publishers are now largely ‘commercial’  Values: Commons became ownership  Ownership is outside the academy  Permissions, rights, restrictions….  Compromising research efficacy  Diminishing the public good *Armbruster Key Perspectives Ltd

8. “The mission of our University is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge.” Key Perspectives Ltd

10.  Immediate  Free (to use)  Free (of restrictions)  Access to the peer-reviewed literature (and data): circa 25,000 journals  Not vanity publishing  Not a ‘stick anything up on the Web’ approach  Moving scholarly communication into the Web Age Key Perspectives Ltd

11.  Benefits to researchers themselves  Benefits to institutions  Benefits to national economies  Benefits to science and society  N.B. It was the funders who saw this first Key Perspectives Ltd

13. “The mission of our University is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge.” Key Perspectives Ltd

14. PoliciesMandates CurrentProposed Institutional 27252 Departmental 24 Multi-institutional 4 Funder 7305 Totals365911 Key Perspectives Ltd

15.  Group of universities that wish to further Open Access and improve scholarly communication  Share those core values of dissemination and maximising the public good  Chair: Professor Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège  Open to all institutions who subscribe to its values and aims  No longer just Europe (we need a new name!)  Membership is at senior management level  Contact: Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd

16. aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.com Key Perspectives Ltd