#Open: An Introduction - NECSUS

"The contemporary domain of open science and scholarship[1] has considerable breadth, constituting a novel paradigm across all facets of the research continuum, workflows, and outreach activities. It encompasses free dissemination of open access scholarly outputs, sharing of research datasets, formulation of innovative research evaluation frameworks that do justice to the wide range of academic activities we all engage in, creating open forms of education and fostering public engagement, as well as citizen science initiatives....

It is therefore not without reason that the initial NECS ‘Publication Committee’ changed its name to ‘Open Scholarship Committee’ and presented a statement on open scholarship at the NECS Annual General Meeting 2021, also meant to prepare the NECS community for these developments.[3]..."