scholarly journals Open Access Models, Pirate Libraries and Advocacy Repertoires: Policy Options for Academics to Construct and Govern Knowledge Commons

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Knowledge Commons

scholarly journals AfricArXiv – the pan-African Open Scholarly Repository (Overview and Roadmap)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Sègbédji Ahinon ◽  
Hisham Arafat ◽  
Umar Ahmad ◽  
Joyce Achampong ◽  
Osman Aldirdiri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Fair Principles

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research working towards building an Africa-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works. We are partnering with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers – on the African continent and globally. It is our aim to promote discoverability of African research output according to sfDORA : https://sfdora.org/read/ FAIR principles: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en To contextualize the above to the African scholarly community we have postulated 10 African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication: https://info.africarxiv.org/african-oa-principles/

Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: A Correlation Study of Journals Using Article Processing Charges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison ◽  
Alexis Calvé-Genest ◽  
Jihane Salhab ◽  
César Villamizar
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Article Processing Charges

Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, funded throughSSHRC's Insight Development Program aims totransition scholarly publishing from subscriptions /purchase to open access. This presentation focuseson a correlational study of DOAJ journals, exploringrelationships between tendency to charge articleprocessing charges, subjects and number of articles.Le Soutien au patrimoine de connaissances, financépar le Programme de développement Savoir du CRSHvise à faire passer l’édition savante du mode parabonnement ou par achat au mode libre accès. Cetteprésentation se concentre sur une étude decorrélation de revues disponibles en libre accès(DOAJ), en explorant les relations entre la tendance àfacturer des frais de traitement pour un article, lessujets et le nombre d’articles.

scholarly journals Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Manzano-Patrón ◽  
Isabel López-Neira ◽  
Pablo Izquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Knowledge Dissemination ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
International Level ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Standardization Of Procedures

Research is being transformed by transparency, collaboration, public engagement and shareability, which are key elements of the Open Science (OS) movement. Open Access (OA), one of its main areas of action, aims to make all research freely available. Benefits of OA have already triggered a shift toward its implementation at the European and international level, with funders creating new platforms to support an ecosystem of open publications and data. Despite remarkable early contributions by Spain in terms of OS pilot initiatives and specifically OA publication performance, the latter has declined by more than a third since 2016. Moreover, no new indicators have been put forward since, even though openness remains to be deemed a strength. In this policy memo, we examine policy options to support OS in the country, with a focus on OA. These could be structured by a National Strategy for Openness, including actions to ensure OA for all publicly funded research, standardization of procedures, and the re-design of assessment criteria to incorporate reproducibility of outputs, knowledge dissemination and transfer.

scholarly journals Compatible or incompatible? DSI, open access, and benefit-sharing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Sara ◽  
Andrew Lee Hufton ◽  
Amber Hartman Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Sequence Information ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Access And Benefit Sharing ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Differences Of Opinion

The scientific community has a strong tradition of sharing digital sequence information (DSI) in an unrestricted manner through public databases. While this tradition of “open access” sharing has many benefits, it has created tension in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Differences of opinion on open access to DSI underlie key points of divergence in ongoing negotiations. The CBD has provided a set of policy options for DSI, but they are not granular enough to assess whether they are compatible with open access principles. Here, we explain what open access to DSI means in practice, assess the CBD DSI policy options through a more granular, technical lens, and discuss which policy options best enable open access. We show that de-coupled benefit-sharing mechanisms for DSI are the most compatible with open access practices and multilateral mechanisms, in general, are the most suited for benefit-sharing if fully de-coupled mechanisms become politically unrealistic.

scholarly journals Historicizing the Knowledge Commons: Open Access, Technical Knowledge, and the Industrial Application of Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Shawn Martin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Modern System ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic

How does open access relate to scholarly communication? Though there are many modern definitions stressing the accessibility of knowledge to everyone, sharing scientific knowledge has a much longer history. What might the concept of ‘open access’ have meant to scientists and knowledge practitioners over the past several hundred years? This paper poses some relevant questions and calls for better historicization of the idea of the knowledge commons at different periods of time, particularly the era of the ‘Republic of Letters’ and the ‘Modern System of Science.’ The concept of open access as it relates to academic publishing has been very nuanced, and hopefully, understanding the history of ‘open access’ in relation to scholarly communication can help us to have more informed debates about where open access needs to go in the future.

scholarly journals Democratising the knowledge commons: The shared goals of open and community-engaged scholarship

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott William Abbott ◽  
Belinda Tiffen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
University Research ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Current State ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship

Community-engaged scholarship is at a transitional moment, seeking to effect cultural change in academic and research institutions, which will expand the concept of scholarship to encompass the methodologies and definitions of scholarship embodied in community-university research and engagement. Open scholarship is similarly employed in transforming scholarship to broaden its scope, influence and impact beyond traditional modes of academic practice. Written from the perspective of practitioners of open access publishing, this article explores the development and current state of the open movement and considers intersections and opportunities for collaboration with community-engaged scholarship. 

AfricArXiv – the pan-African Open Scholarly Repository(dissemination document)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Okelo ◽  
Johanna Havemann ◽  
Justin Ahinon ◽  
Umar Ahmad ◽  
Osman Aldirdiri
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Knowledge Commons ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Fair Principles

AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research working towards building an Africa-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works. We are partnering with established scholarly repository services to provide a platform for African scientists of any discipline to present their research findings and connect with other researchers – on the African continent and globally. It is our aim to promote discoverability of African research output according to sfDORA : https://sfdora.org/read/ FAIR principles: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism: https://www.helsinki-initiative.org/en To contextualize the above to the African scholarly community we have postulated 10 African Principles for Open Access in Scholarly Communication: https://info.africarxiv.org/african-oa-principles/

Open Access – Sie haben die Wahl mit OpenMind

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
G.-Jürgen Hogrefe
Keyword(s):  
Open Access
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