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. 

GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Current State ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

 There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

scholarly journals A Change of Leadership for the Engaged Scholar Journal

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Penelope C Sanz ◽  
Lori Bradford ◽  
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Current State ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
The University

   In the Exchanges, we present conversations with scholars and practitioners of community engagement, responses to previously published material, and other reflections on various aspects of community-engaged scholarship meant to provoke further dialogue and discussion. In this section, we invite our readers to offer their thoughts and ideas on the meanings and understandings of engaged scholarship, as practiced in local or faraway communities, diverse cultural settings, and in various disciplinary contexts. We especially welcome community-based scholars’ views and opinions on their collaborations with university-based partners in particular and engaged scholarship in general.  In this issue, we discuss the recent changeover of leadership at The Engaged Scholar Journal with Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, who has recently left the University of Saskatchewan to assume new posts at the University of Alberta, and Dr. Lori Bradford. Managing Editor Dr. Penelope (Penny) Sanz takes both through a conversation about the inception, current state, and future goals of the journal, and their reflections on engaged scholarship as a career. 

scholarly journals The Think&EatGreen@School Small Grants Initiative: How the Distribution of Resources Supported the Project’s Community of Learners and Contributed to Community Engaged Scholarship

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Elena Orrego ◽  
Matthew Kemshaw ◽  
Nicole Read ◽  
Alejandro Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Resource Sharing ◽  
University Research ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
Rich Information ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Research Alliance ◽  
Networks Of Support

This paper describes how a Small Grants initiative evolved to support the aims of a large, multi-sector community-university research project. It explores how the giving of small amounts of project funding to community groups enabled a deepening of community engaged scholarship across a large community-university research alliance. We present the Think&EatGreen@School Small Grants initiative as a case study on how the distribution of small amounts of funding can encourage the role of community voices in research, create opportunities for resource and knowledge sharing, generate rich information and valuable data, support and contribute to networks of support and resource sharing, and articulate the interests of a broad diversity of stakeholders.

scholarly journals What Matters More in Open Access Journal Publishing: Scientific Rigor or Financial Vigor?

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scientific Rigor ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Association ◽  
Take Back ◽  
The World

Academics and librarians around the world are raising concern about the current state of scholarly journal publishing in that the majority of journals are under the control of five multinational commercial journal publishing companies. Some are advocating for scholars to take back control of scholarly communication, particularly because it is the academics who are supplying and managing most of the content for journals. Open access publishing is one option, but the question of sustainability in funding streams raises concerns. Also the roles of scholarly societies, academic association, and universities in looking for stability in nonprofit journal publishing are discussed.

scholarly journals Enclosure and emancipation in scholarly journals publishing: Overview, critical, global and communication perspectives

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Strong Potential ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals

The current state of scholarly communication is presented as one of contest between an increasingly commercial system that is dysfunctional and incompatible with the basic aims of scholarship, and emerging alternatives, particularly open access publishing and open access archiving. Two approaches to facilitating global participation in scholarly communication are contrasted; equity is seen as a superior goal to the donor model, which requires poverty or inequity to succeed. The current state of scholarly communication within the discipline of communication is examined. A relatively healthy percentage of not-for-profit publishers and at least 76 fully open access journals suggest strong potential for emancipating scholarship in communication from commercial imperatives. Specific sites of struggle and actions for scholars, including developing open access journals and self-archiving, are presented.

scholarly journals Open Access Publishing Trends in the Forest Sciences

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Kevin O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Professional Societies ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Access Model

Open access models for academic publishing offer an alternative to traditional subscription-based journals. In the open access model, the author generally retains the copyright and the published articles are available free on the internet. Publication costs are either borne by the author as article processing charges, or are free for some journals published by societies or institutions. Traditional subscription-based journals are funded by subscription costs to libraries and individuals, the publisher retains the copyright, and these journals are generally not freely available to the public. This traditional model has created two problems: (1) many for-profit publishers control access in a form of oligopoly and impose high costs to subscribers; and (2) it limits access of scientific information to the public which disproportionately affects poorly funded research institutions and developing countries. Other subscription-based journals are published by scientific and professional societies but are not “for-profit”. In the forest sciences, several open access journals emerged in the last 10–15 years. These open access journals are published by for-profit publishing companies, research institutions, and professional societies. Some of these journals have been successful at attracting manuscript submissions, becoming indexed by various indexation services, and have seen metrics representing their importance increase over time. This paper documents these trends and assesses the viability of the open access model in the forest sciences and compares them to other types of journals.

scholarly journals Open access in the humanities, arts and social sciences: Complex perceptions of researchers and implications for research support

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Niamh Quigley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Research Support ◽  
Global Citizen ◽  
Gold Open Access ◽  
Research Impacts

Adoption of open access in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) is a work in progress, with lower engagement in HASS than most of the natural sciences. HASS research impacts how we live, how we learn and how we see ourselves, and research institutions should encourage and enable their HASS research communities to increase the prevalence of open access research outputs. Six experienced HASS researchers at a single academic institution in Perth, Australia, were interviewed to explore their perceptions and experiences of open access, and any barriers that they had encountered. Thematic analysis was used to code the transcribed interviews, and generate themes. This study found a wide variance in the adoption of open access practices among HASS researchers. Some participants are publishing via APC-based gold open access (in DOAJ listed journals), while other participants encounter multiple barriers to sharing more of their work as open access. Confusion about aspects of open access is evident. Even among participants who support open access, some have had poor experiences of open access publishing. This research also found that some participants hold extremely complex opinions on open access, which directly influence participants’ behaviour depending on which perspective they are considering. These perspectives are: research supervisor, editorial role at journal, funding assessor and global citizen. Within HASS a diversity of behaviours exists around open access, and research institutions need to tailor their research support services around open access and scholarly publishing for different communities of researchers. 

scholarly journals Open Access publishing practice in Geochemistry: current state and look to the future

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Pourret ◽  
Andrew Hursthouse ◽  
Dasapta Irawan ◽  
Karen Johannesson ◽  
Haiyan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Practice

scholarly journals Open Access publishing practice in geochemistry: overview of current state and look to the future

Heliyon ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e03551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Pourret ◽  
Andrew Hursthouse ◽  
Dasapta Erwin Irawan ◽  
Karen Johannesson ◽  
Haiyan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Publishing Practice

scholarly journals Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Paul Eve
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
Stem Disciplines ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the current state of debates surrounding Open Access (OA) in non-STEM disciplines. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a selective literature review and discussion methodology to give a representative summary of the state of the art. Findings – Non-STEM disciplines persistently lag behind scientific disciplines in their approach to OA, if the teleology towards open dissemination is accepted. This can be attributed to a variety of economic and cultural factors that centre on the problem of resource allocation with respect to quality. Originality/value – This paper will be of value to policymakers, funders, academics and publishers. The original aspect of the paper pertains to the identification of an anxiety of irrelevance in the humanities disciplines and a focus on “quality” in Open-Access publishing debates.

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