Imagining the “open” university: Sharing scholarship to improve research and education

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-10-25

Summary:

"Open scholarship, such as the sharing of articles, code, data, and educational resources, has the potential to improve university research and education as well as increase the impact universities can have beyond their own walls. To support this perspective, I present evidence from case studies, published literature, and personal experiences as a practicing open scholar. I describe some of the challenges inherent to practicing open scholarship and some of the tensions created by incompatibilities between institutional policies and personal practice. To address this, I propose several concrete actions universities could take to support open scholarship and outline ways in which such initiatives could benefit the public as well as institutions. Importantly, I do not think most of these actions would require new funding but rather a redistribution of existing funds and a rewriting of internal policies to better align with university missions of knowledge dissemination and societal impact."

Link:

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002614

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.universities oa.case oa.budgets oa.funding oa.economics_of oa.costs oa.policies oa.strategies oa.hei

Date tagged:

10/25/2017, 15:45

Date published:

10/25/2017, 11:45