"Open scholarship generates opportunities" | UMD PACT

"Philip Cohen is, unequivocally, a proponent of open science.

He’s a sociologist, a demographer, the director of graduate studies in Maryland’s sociology department, and the founder of SocArXiv — a free, non-profit, open-access repository containing a wide array of social science research.

Much of that research depends on a public audience for input and relevancy, Cohen said. The catalysts for a lot of Cohen’s own research into families, marriage and divorce came from interactions he had with the public. That’s why facilitating open science is a part of his personal mission...."