How to make science more open – 7 ideas for early career researchers – ScienceOpen Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-25

Summary:

"Recently, we’ve noticed more and more calls for greater Open Access (OA) participation from earlier career researchers, post-docs and graduate students. Thankfully their voice is increasingly being heard on many issues. Erin McKiernan, a researcher working primarily in experimental and theoretical Neuroscience, published an excellent piece in the Guardian newspaper in which she made several memorable statements – two of which are particularly so: 'if you believe in openness, stand up for it' 'I am an early career researcher, and have pledged to make all of my work openly available' Let’s also not forget the Open Letter to the AAAS, protesting the pricing and licensing model for their first Open Access journal led by Jon Tennant and Erin McKiernan (busy lady) and signed by 114 researchers, many of them at earlier career stages. And finally, researchers such as Jessica Polka and Kristin Krukenberg, provide a great example of 'post-docs doing it for themselves'. Togerther with a team, they are organizing the Future of Research Symposium, October 2/3 2014 in Boston, to ensure that the voices of junior scientists are heard in the ongoing dialog about policies that shape the scientific establishment. With these words ringing in our ears, here are 7 different ways for interacting with the literature that provide earlier career researchers with more ways to shape their future ..."

Link:

http://blog.scienceopen.com/2014/09/how-to-make-science-more-open-7-ideas-for-early-career-researchers/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.publishing oa.peer_review oa.social_networks oa.ecr

Date tagged:

09/25/2014, 21:20

Date published:

09/25/2014, 13:31