Bastian Greshake Tzovaras · Open science and commoning beyond licensing: Deteriorating digital commons in the absence of collective governance

"This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track on Open, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy, policy and science futures at the EU-SPRI Annual Conference

Over the past decades, the open science movement – as well as the many wider, nonacademic, open knowledge movements – have left their marks by building large, open knowledge commons: In the world of academic publishing, the open access movement has helped make the scientific literature a lot more accessible.¹ Similarly, the use of open licenses for the publishing and openly sharing data and software has become the norm across increasing numbers of scientific disciplines, creating rich forms of scientific commons too."