Is Figshare Open? "it is not just about open or closed, it is about control" | petermr's blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-04-25

Summary:

"I have been meaning to write on this theme for some time, and more generally on the increasing influence of DigitalScience's growing influence in parts of the academic infrastructure. This post is sparked by a twitter exchange (follow backwards from https://twitter.com/petermurrayrust/status/591197043579813888 ) in the last few hours, which addresses the question of whether 'Figshare is Open'. This is not an easy question and I will try to be objective. First let me say - as I have said in public - that I have huge respect and admiration for how Mark Hahnel created Figshare while a PhD student. It's a great idea and I am delighted - in the abstract - that it gained some much traction so rapidly. Mark and I have discussed issues of Figshare on more than one occasion and he's done me the honour of creating a 'Peter Murray-Rust' slide (http://www.slideshare.net/repofringe/figshare-repository-fringe-2013 ) where he addresses some (but not all) of my concerns about Figshare after its 'acquisition' by Macmillan Digital Science (I use this term, although there are rumours of a demerger or merger). I use 'acquisition' because I have no knowledge of the formal position of Figshare as a legal entity (I assume it *is* one? Figshare FAQs ) and that's one of the questions to be addressed here ..."

Link:

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2015/04/23/is-figshare-open-it-is-not-just-about-open-or-closed-it-is-about-control/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.figshare oa.data oa.green oa.repositories.data oa.business_models oa.policies oa.repositories

Date tagged:

04/25/2015, 08:09

Date published:

04/25/2015, 04:09