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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023
Offers librarians an authoritative overview of the full spectrum of significant issues and controversies related to open scholarship in a candid and fair-minded manner.
There has long been a debate about openness in scholarship, and even the term itself continues to be debated. Openness is a complex and multidimensional concept, and its nature in scholarship continually evolves. One of the hindrances to the transition to greater openness in academia is this lack of clear understanding about how it fits into the practice of scholarly communication.
To ensure that librarians as knowledge managers can better educate scholars about the benefits and challenges of open scholarship, Victoria Martin's The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship brings clarity to the concept of openness, tests assumptions concerning it, and strikes the right balance between breaking down complex ideas into simpler ones and honoring the reader's intelligence and previous knowledge of the subject. Readers will learn the history of openness in scholarship as well as several ways in which openness can be perceived. Drawing on specific examples, Martin discusses the most prominent scholarly models based on openness, barriers to openness, concerns about openness in scholarship, and the future of open scholarship.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Chapter 1One Term, Many Meanings: Interpreting Openness in Scholarship
Openness as Transparency
Openness as a Scientific Norm
Openness as an Ethical Obligation
Openness as Freedom of Inquiry
Openness as Freedom from Cost
Openness as an Author's Right
Openness as a User's Right
Openness as a Mindset
Openness as a Technological Advancement
Chapter 2The Free Software Movement and the Open Source Initiative: Unlocking the Source Code
The Free Software Movement
The Open Source Initiative
Advantages and Challenges of Free Software and Open Source Software
Chapter 3Open Content Licensing: Filling the Gap Between "All Rights Reserved" and "No Rights Reserved"
Defining an Open Content License
Key Open Content Licenses
Misconceptions about Open Content Licensing and Copyright
Benefits and Drawbacks of Open Content Licensing
Chapter 4Open Access (OA): Redefining Scholarly Publishing
The Budapest Open Access Initiative
The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Main Strategies for Attaining OA
OA and Copyright
OA and Peer Review
OA Policies and Mandates
OA Benefits
OA Challenges
OA and Predatory Publishing
Chapter 5Open Educational Resources (OER): Linking Openness and Education
Envisioning Openness in Education
Defining OER
Arguments for OER
The OER Movement
Challenges to a Wider Adoption of OER
OER Quality
Types of OER Projects
Sustainability of OER Projects
Chapter 6Open Data: Facilitating Replication and Verification of Research Findings
What Are Open Data?
Open Data Principles
Open Data Policies and Mandates
Open Government Data
Journal Data Sharing Policies
Open Data Repositories
Licensing Open Data
Dedicating Data to the Public Domain
Barriers to Data Sharing and Reuse
Chapter 7Citizen Science (CS): Transcending the Boundaries between Professional and Nonprofessional Science
What Is Citizen Science?
A Brief History and Current State of CS
Benefits of CS
Challenges of CS
Types of CS Projects
Chapter 8The Many Paths to Openness: Expanding the Sphere of Open Scholarship
Open Peer Review
Invisible Colleges
Altmetrics
Online Author Identifiers
Transdisciplinarity
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index
