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A first budget for open scholarship, a responsibility that lasts

2002The past, rebuiltDeadline · Within 60 days until next semester's budget

Reconstruction of the past

The material's reference date is 2002-02-15. Only explicitly cited source texts from that era are used as background; the three situational premises and the subsequent turns are invented. Real outcomes, amended systems, and success cases known later are not used as facts of the initial input. This is a modern retrospective framing of the question and is not a claim that people of that era made this decision.

The question to decide

The university's first open-access budget cannot run all three programs adequately. The repository carries the labor of deposit and rights confirmation, and the new journal carries the responsibility of review and continued publication. Converting an existing journal depends on an external publisher's terms. What work is the university prepared to take on for the long term, and where should the first budget go?

Who decidesFictional university library and research meeting

What the AI judgments chose

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AI-generated editorial illustration for the Meridian library.

The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Run the institutional repository first

    Opens access to materials across many fields, but requires the labor of deposit, rights confirmation, and supporting actual use.

  2. Option 2

    Launch a new open-access journal

    Designs review and openness together, but must secure continuous publication and researcher participation from the start.

  3. Option 3

    Support the transition of an existing journal

    Continues accumulated publishing relationships, but depends on external conditions and funding after the transition.

The situation as it stands

The fictional university does not have the staff and budget to run all three programs adequately. Decision deadline: within 60 days, before the next semester's budget.

A reconstruction of the past as of 2002-02-15 · Deciding the first budget among a public repository and a new journal. A fictional case newly built from the principles of documents of that era. The institutions, people, figures, and events that appear are not records of real decision-making.

  1. Premise 1The fictional university does not have the staff and budget to run all three programs adequately.
  2. Premise 2A repository requires researchers to hand over materials and confirm the permitted scope, while a journal requires commitments to editing, review, and long-term publication.
  3. Premise 3Supporting the transition of an existing journal continues an existing readership but depends on the conditions of an external publisher.

Where it holdsA scholarly open-access program, support staff, and long-term costs

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The materials researchers will actually deposit and the permitted scope
  2. Unknown 2The editorial and review staff to sustain the new publication
  3. Unknown 3The period of access and cost that an external publisher will commit to

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can establish 「the materials researchers will actually deposit and the permitted scope」, and reconsider if new confirmation changes the trade-offs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can establish 「the editorial and review staff to sustain the new publication」, and reconsider if new confirmation changes the trade-offs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window can establish 「the period of access and cost that an external publisher will commit to」, and reconsider if new confirmation changes the trade-offs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Researchers stated that they were willing to deposit, but found it hard to handle rights confirmation themselves.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

A publisher that had promised a transition proposed separately negotiating the access conditions the following year.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Icarus

Does the expectation of achievement change how limits are observed?

An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.
Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.
The record of this question
Question
FSP-SCIENCE-24 · version 1.5.0
Content identity, SHA-256
39e914e11b7e1bdf2573063633f68d622242ba75355e49dd59580cf9b98c5be8
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Question input JSON · What followed, JSON
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