Title

Speaker

13:00-13:10

Opening Greeting/Outline

Takashi Shimada
(Media Center Head Office, Keio University)

13:10-13:30

Open Access for Economics and Economists

[Abstract]

Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

13:30-13:50

Research Method and Environment in History, and Open Access: A Study from the Perspective of a Researcher in Japanese History of Modern

[Abstract]

Hitonari Ishii
(Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)

13:50-15:05

Overseas Stream: Front Line of OA in Humanities and Social Sciences

[Abstract]

Martin Paul Eve
(Open Library of Humanities)

15:05-15:20

Break

15:20-15:40

Scholarly Information and /or Comprehensive Knowledge－UP's relevant Mission to Explore New Methodology

[Abstract]

Tetsuya Suzuki
(Kyoto University Press)

15:40-16:50

Panel Discussion

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kuniyoshi Ebina
(Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
*Hitonari Ishii
(Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
*Martin Paul Eve
(Open Library of Humanities)
*Tetsuya Suzuki
(Kyoto University Press)
*Kazuko Matsumoto
(Information & Media Center of Science & Technology, Keio University)

16:50-17:00

Closing

Reiko Aoki is Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. She specializes in industrial organization and applied microeconomics. She has published papers on wide range of topics including intellectual property, innovation investments and Demeny voting. She graduated from Department of Mathematics, University of Tokyo in 1981. She received Master of Science (Statistics) in 1986 and PhD in Economics in 1987, both from Stanford University. She has worked around the world including assistant professor at the Ohio State University and State University of New York at Stony Brook, and associate professor at University of Auckland. She has been at Hitotsubashi since 2007. She also is the Director, Center for Intergenerational Studies and Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy.

I have been an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, since 2012 after having served as a curator at JIYU MINKEN Institute of Machida City. I am currently examining modern Japanese society through my study of modern Japanese history, in particular, my observation of the ways in which people face life, old age, illness, and death, and the state of local communities wherein these matters are tackled.

Dr Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, specialising in contemporary American fiction, primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. In addition, Martin is known for his work on open access, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academic Policy Series on the topic and founding the Open Library of Humanities.

Born in 1957, after attended Faculty of Literature and Faculty of Education of Kyoto University as an undergraduate, acting as a writer and a editor. Major acting field as editor: area study and anthropology.

He received a BA in physics from Kyoto University in 1977 and a PhD in theoretical materials physics from Osaka University in 1982. He has been a faculty member at Kobe University since 1987. Since 2007, he has joined the newly organized Graduate School of Human Development and Environment (Natural Environment Science Program), and has been the Head of Kobe University Science Shop since 2013. He was the Director of Information Science and Technology Center, Kobe University, during 2009-2012. He has been a Member of Science Council of Japan since 2006, and an Adviser to the Program for Blossoming SciTech Talent (Developing Human Resources in Science and Technology) in High Schools in Hyogo since 2010. His current research topics are: phenomenological theory of climate (physical world), mult-layered mathematical modeling of intra- and inter-cellular biological processes (biological world), and investigation of mechanisms of transforming various stakeholders toward sustainable society through trans-disciplinary and cross-boredered interactions (human world).

Ms Matsumoto received her BA in Library & Information Science at Keio University in 1981. She began her career as a reference librarian at Keio University Library on Mita Campus and gained experience supervising the general reference, serials, book selection, and rare book collection departments. She has held her current position since November 2012.

Economics is the study of distribution of limited resources and its consequences. While as a researcher, economist benefits from open access to resources, she is also very aware of problems that non-exclusive system may pose, particularly in the long run. I will present examples of open access in the economics discipline while attempting an economic analysis of the situation.

When it comes to open access, history may be believed to be the most isolated of all the humanities and social sciences subjects. As a researcher in history (Japanese history of modern), I would like to introduce my research methods, my research environment, and my experience with open access. In doing so, I would like to consider together with all of you the challenges in open access becoming the norm in history or the extent of truth behind the belief that it is difficult for open access to become the norm.

Why is open access important to the humanities? What are the different challenges in these disciplinary areas as compared to the natural sciences? What type of economic model could work? In this talk, Dr. Martin Paul Eve will address these questions, and many others, in relation to the work he is undertaking to establish the Open Library of Humanities. Outlining the problems and rationale, the social solutions, the technical solutions and the financial models, this talk will provide a background to not only open access, but also to some exciting new prospects for collective funding and shared endeavour.

Passing over a question--- "Is open access in the humanities really delayed in comparison with the natural science?"---, it is a fact that quite a few researchers in the humanities and social sciences get second thoughts about open access. One reason is their standpoint on which they consider their works not merely as "fragmental scholarly information" but as integrated comprehensive knowledge. We cannot proceed to open access in disregard of that standpoint. We must explore a new methodology for superstructing comprehensive knowledge, using electronic academic information. This methodological exploration has become one of UP's important mission today.