OPEN ACCESS KNOWLEDGE : DIGITAL STYLE GUIDE – Writing For Research – Patrick Dunleavy | Medium
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Summary:
"Executive Summary: Many current academic citation and referencing practices are out of date and dysfunctional, especially in leading only to closed-access and paywall sources, or in providing only details of ‘legacy’ print formats. The central principles of this Digital Style Guide are that 1 All citations/ references should lead wherever possible to a digital text, database, or other information source. 2. The primary source cited should wherever possible be open access — so that it is immediately available in one click to readers. Closed access and paywall sources should always be cited as well, but now in a secondary role. 3. Where an open access digital source is not available, referencing only closed access and paywall sources will have to suffice, as now. However, authors should try to provide clickable links to additional information useful to readers. We suggest economical ways of doing this. 4. Adapting to this new orientation requires some detailed but consequential changes in the items included in all citations, and in how they are triggered in texts and other outputs. We set out a modernized approach to citing, adapted to 21st century academic and scientific practice in an increasingly globalized academia."