scholarly journals Opening up to open access

BioTechniques ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-107
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Opening Up

scholarly journals Opening up the Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Joanna Ball ◽  
Graham Stone ◽  
Sarah Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Open Content ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Instrumental Role

Momentum is building in the transition to open access for monographs, with a number of funders developing policies and mandates in recent years. The article argues that while libraries play an instrumental role in driving a transition to open science within their institutions this is not reflected in libraries’ approaches to collection development, which are still predicated on purchased content. Libraries are keen to demonstrate that their purchased content is relevant to users, often promoting ‘expensive’ purchased collections over open content. Rather than relegating open to a less-visible second place, the article calls for libraries to acquire and promote open content alongside, and where appropriate with higher priority, than paid-for content. In order to facilitate a transition to open access for monographs, cultural change and leadership is required within libraries to reimagine themselves around open content as the norm, with policies, practices and structures that communicate, enable and promote this shift. The article calls for a collaborative international approach.

scholarly journals OpenMethods: A Compass for a More Open Digital Humanities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gimena del Rio Riande ◽  
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra ◽  
Ulrike Wuttke ◽  
Yoann Moranville
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Opening Up

The digital transformation has initiated a paradigm shift in research and scholarly communication practices towards a more open scholarly culture. Although this transformation is slowly happening in the Digital Humanities field, open is not yet default. The article introduces the OpenMethods metablog, a community platform that highlights open research methods, tools, and practices within the context of the Digital Humanities by republishing open access content around methods and tools in various formats and languages. It also describes the platform’s technical infrastructure based on its requirements and main functionalities, and especially the collaborative content sourcing and editorial workflows. The article concludes with a discussion of the potentials of the OpenMethods metablog to overcome barriers towards open practices by focusing on inclusive, community sourced information based around opening up research processes and the challenges that need to be overcome to achieve its goals.

scholarly journals Opening Up The Tools For Doing Science: The Case Of The Global Open Science Hardware Movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Julieta Cecilia Arancio
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Transitions Theory ◽  
Opening Up

Open science hardware (OSH) is a term frequently used to refer to artifacts, but also to a practice, a discipline and a collective of people worldwide pushing for open access to the design of tools to produce scientific knowledge. The Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement gathers actors from academia, education, the private sector and civil society advocating for OSH to be ubiquitous by 2025. This paper examines the GOSH movement’s emergence and main features through the lens of transitions theory and the grassroots innovation movements framework. GOSH is here described embedded in the context of the wider open hardware movement and analyzed in terms of framings that inform it, spaces opened up for action and strategies developed to open them. It is expected that this approach provides insights on niche development in the particular case of transitions towards more plural and democratic sociotechnical systems.

scholarly journals The Power of Open: Tools and Practices for Opening Up Student Work

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Rigling
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Student Work ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Opening Up

This chapter presents a set of case studies focusing on our public engagement in the context of the movement to create a more open, transparent, and sharing culture through open access to research products. The NCSU Libraries’ work is grounded in open culture and programs that introduce students to open tools and practice have been a powerful way to help students learn to work collaboratively and transparently, as well as prepare a portfolio of their accomplishments. The ways we have designed, organized, and promoted library tools, spaces, and expertise connect our students with the communities where they live today and the lives they will build going forward, whether they choose a career in academia, industry, or the arts. These projects are justa few components of a broader series of programming designed to demonstrate the commitment the NCSU Libraries bring to supporting students as producers, the challenges inherent to this work, and the ways in which the Libraries can support and articulate the value of student creations. While actively exploring and engaging in this space, we do not purport to have the answers and are still investigating how best to provide emerging scholars and creative students with the tools, spaces, and resources to share, save, and disseminate their work.

Museums' Strategies for Opening up to Open Access. German Museums' Utilization Logics for Digital Content

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Julia Wiedemann ◽  
Eva Patzschke ◽  
Susanne Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Scientific Infrastructure ◽  
Opening Up

Museums are expected to safeguard society’s cultural heritage while also making it publicly available to all. Recently, the digital transformation increased political and societal claims on museums to make their digital content openly available. This paper explores museums’ reactions to this claim and looks at how museums currently utilize their digital content. By analysing qualitative interviews with German museum officials we have found museums to follow four different types of strategies which are ‘Societal engagement’, ‘Safeguarding of heritage related knowledge’, ‘Scientific infrastructure’ and ‘marketing ends’. These were embedded in museums’ organizational identity and the prioritising of some of their tasks.

scholarly journals Opening up: open access publishing, data sharing, and how they can influence your neuroscience career

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1413-1419 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. L. Spires-Jones ◽  
P. Poirazi ◽  
M. S. Grubb
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Opening Up

scholarly journals Open Access Publishing

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
Amelia Hadfield ◽  
Andrej J. Zwitter
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Online Journals ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
Opening Up

The rise of open source online journals, free online courses, and other changes in the research and education environment, coined the "academic spring" by some commentators, represents an increasing trend in opening up the rules of access for research. Universities, libraries, publishers and even govern­ments are paying attention to this new movement often referred to with the acronym A2K (access to knowledge).

Openness in geoscience - a quantitative assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Bosman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Current State ◽  
Publication Data ◽  
Science Application ◽  
Data Requirements ◽  
Opening Up

<p>There is growing consensus that making our research process and outputs more open is necessary to increase transparency, efficiency, reproducibility and relevance of research. With that we should be better able to contribute to answering important questions and overcoming grand challenges. Despite considerable attention for open science, including citizen science, there is no overall baseline showing the current state of openness in our field. This presentation shows results from research that quantitatively charts the adoption of open practices across the geosciences, mostly globally and across the full research workflow. They range from setting research priorities, collaboration with global south researchers and researchers in other disciplines, sharing code and data, sharing posters online, sharing early versions of papers as preprints, publishing open access, opening up peer review, using open licenses when sharing, to engaging with potential stakeholders of research outcomes and reaching out to the wider public. The assessment uses scientometric data, publication data, data from sharing platforms and journals, altmetrics data, and mining of abstracts and other outputs, aiming to address the breadth of open science practices. The resulting images show that open science application is not marginal anymore, but at the same time certainly not mainstream. It also shows that limited sharing, limited use of open licenses and limited use of permanent IDs makes this type of assessment very hard. Insights derived from the study are relevant inputs in science policy discussions on data requirements, open access, researcher training and involvement of societal partners.</p>

scholarly journals Opening Up The Tools For Doing Science: The Case Of The Global Open Science Hardware Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julieta C. Arancio
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Grassroots Innovation ◽  
Transitions Theory ◽  
Opening Up

Open science hardware (OSH) is a term frequently used to refer to artifacts, but also to a practice, a discipline and a collective of people worldwide pushing for open access to the design of tools to produce scientific knowledge. The Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement gathers actors from academia, education, the private sector and civil society advocating for OSH to be ubiquitous by 2025. This paper examines the GOSH movement’s emergence and main features through the lens of transitions theory and the grassroots innovation movements framework. GOSH is here described embedded in the context of the wider open hardware movement and analyzed in terms of framings that inform it, spaces opened up for action and strategies developed to open them. It is expected that this approach provides insights on niche development in the particular case of transitions towards more plural and democratic sociotechnical systems.

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