[Fim4l] Critical article

[Jiri Pavlik]

Hi Jos, Tim,

Thanks for bringing this to attention. It is very good idea to write a
FIM4L response
describing that the FIM4L recommendations are there for propper scientists
authentication at publishers services eliminating threads of tracking
academics.

Best regards

               Jiri





On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 3:20 PM Tim McGeary <tim.mcgeary at duke.edu> wrote:

> I find this article to be highly cited yet highly sensationalized, the
> latter of which is demotivating.  But I was in that CNI meeting in Dec
> 2018, and that conversation motivated me to call NISO to task for not
> having any librarians on the RA21 committees and having worked closely with
> Todd Carpenter on other projects, I had credibility from experience to get
> myself on a RA21 team and then formally onto a Seamless Access team.
>
> Within Seamless Access, I found highly collaborative people from
> libraries, publishers, vendors, and other organizations who were all
> committed to developing standards for this work.  We battled over various
> elements and worked toward consensus, developing multiple options for
> services that need no user attributes whatsoever to function to those
> services that cannot function without user attributes.  I am proud of that
> work, and as someone who is responsible for privacy and security, I am much
> more confident to deploy Seamless Access today than I was sitting in that
> room in Washington, DC in December 2018.
>
> That said, your itemized list is consistent with the objectives we had
> working in the Seamless Access Entity Attributes working group, and I can
> say that many of these are indeed included.  A colleague of mine is now on
> the Seamless Access Licensing group working to develop standards of
> language for contracts and licenses to try to solve other items on this
> list that cannot be easily solved through technology standards.
>
> The pandemic has proven that IP-based authentication is no longer viable,
> yet the publisher marketplace is not equal in ability to support SSO.  The
> biggest publishers primarily already have SSO in place that we can easily
> agree to; the smallest publishers do not and have yet to demonstrate they
> can.
>
> And while we should do what we can to protect user's privacy, I do not
> come to the table believing or expecting that libraries and publishers are
> like-minded, and indeed the objectives each has in mind are very
> different.  I believe it is then paramount for libraries to achieve what we
> can in contractual and technological standards-based user privacy AND
> improve /update our Information Literacy programs to include guidance for
> users to protect their privacy through their choices and behaviors.  Part
> of this is acknowledging that as Libraries we want to track their usage of
> our own services just like publishers do.  So, we commit to transparency of
> our practices to demonstrate our expectations to users and demonstrate what
> questions they should be asking and considering in the practices of other
> services.
>
> Tim
>
> Tim McGeary
>
> Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Technology
>
> Duke University Libraries
>
> tim.mcgeary at duke.edu
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* FIM4L <fim4l-bounces at lists.daasi.de> on behalf of Jos Westerbeke <
> jos.westerbeke at eur.nl>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 16, 2021 6:09 AM
> *To:* fim4l at lists.daasi.de <fim4l at lists.daasi.de>
> *Subject:* [Fim4l] Critical article
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Please read following article:
>
> https://elephantinthelab.org/when-your-journal-reads-you/
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://elephantinthelab.org/when-your-journal-reads-you/__;!!OToaGQ!-8Qd_kYewxEhUVlF2dnuQdlX3MlRI2XXtdyw_Z6BeYH1ow4LaEB1IEtx5G3hsW4Pw0I$>
>
>
>
> What about the idea to write an official FIM4L response?
>
>
>
> I think we can note that:
>
>
>    - It is time that libraries indeed need to fight this problem.
>    - Both libraries and publishers should work on this.
>    - SSO authentication methods can be used to reach the goal of better
>    privacy, rather than IP-based authentication.
>    - Libraries and publishers need to work together on protecting users'
>    privacy.
>    - We need to work together towards a new trust model anchored in a
>    contract.
>    - Only together we can make a safe 'information journey' for
>    researchers and students.
>    - We need each other, even when articles are published in Open Access.
>    We can create a safe logon and can agree on a contractual basis that a
>    publisher provides a safe journey for an authenticated user, rather than
>    not authenticated users who are exposed to whatever the publisher is
>    looking for.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Jos
>
>
>
> Jos Westerbeke
>
> Library IT specialist/manager  | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Library |
> Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 | 3062PA Rotterdam | jos.westerbeke at eur.nl | +31
> 640295513
>
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