Librarians as Wikimedia Movement Organizers in Spain: An interpretive inquiry exploring activities and motivations

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Bridges ◽  
Clara Llebot
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Education ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry ◽  
Regional Languages ◽  
Do So

How do librarians in Spain engage with Wikipedia (and Wikidata, Wikisource, and other Wikipedia sister projects) as Wikimedia Movement Organizers? And, what motivates them to do so? This article reports on findings from 14 interviews with 18 librarians. The librarians interviewed were multilingual and contributed to Wikimedia projects in Castilian (commonly referred to as Spanish), Catalan, Basque, English, and other European languages. They reported planning and running Wikipedia events, developing partnerships with local Wikimedia chapters, motivating citizens to upload photos to Wikimedia Commons, identifying gaps in Wikipedia content and filling those gaps, transcribing historic documents and adding them to Wikisource, and contributing data to Wikidata. Most were motivated by their desire to preserve and promote regional languages and culture, and a commitment to open access and open education.

scholarly journals Open Science in the Humanities, or: Open Humanities?

Publications ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Knöchelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Do So

Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the humanities appear to be less coherent as a cluster of scholarship than the sciences are, they do share unique characteristics which lead to distinct scholarly communication and research practices. A discourse on making these practices more open and transparent needs to take account of these characteristics. The prevalent scientific perspective in the discourse on more open practices does not do so, which confirms that the discourse’s name, open science, indeed excludes the humanities so that talking about open science in the humanities is incoherent. In this paper, I argue that there needs to be a dedicated discourse for more open research and communication practices in the humanities, one that integrates several elements currently fragmented into smaller, unconnected discourses (such as on open access, preprints, or peer review). I discuss three essential elements of open science—preprints, open peer review practices, and liberal open licences—in the realm of the humanities to demonstrate why a dedicated open humanities discourse is required.

scholarly journals Open access, open education resources and open data in Uganda

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Di Salvo ◽  
Meggie Mwoka ◽  
Teddy Kwaga ◽  
Priscilla Aceng Rukundo ◽  
Dennis Ssesanga Ernest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Open Education Resources

scholarly journals EuroRxiv: a European open science repository

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Moustafa
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Science Movement

Open and free access to scientific knowledge keeps scientists up to date with the latest achievements in their respective fields and to help set up appropriate solutions to health, environmental and technical issues. One of the efficient settings toward this purpose is the use of preprint servers- open repositories that allow authors to post their manuscripts ahead of formal peer review/publishing in traditional journals. The recognition of preprints as an essential part of science landscape are on the rise worldwide.In 2018, a European funder coalition, called Coalition S, has been formed and issued an open access plan, called Plan S, that requires authors of studies funded by the Coalition to publish their manuscripts- starting from January 2021- in open access journals or repositories that meet the guidelines of the Plan S. Many publishers and researchers welcomed the Plan S as a step forward to promote openness and free access to publicly funded research. To further enhance the open and free science movement, I'd propose a European preprint server called "European arXiv" (https://eurorxiv.eu) as a multidisciplinary and multilingual repository that will accept manuscripts (preprints and postprints) in the various European languages and beyond. The project is an individual initiative, but interested people are welcome to join.

scholarly journals The Battle for Open by Martin Weller

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Open Education ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
Current State ◽  
Worth Reading ◽  
Open Education Movement

“The Battle for Open” by Martin Weller was published on 28 November 2014 and is available in a number of formats from Ubiquity Press.  Following the principles of openness, it has been made available under the CC-BY licence which allows one to share the book or even adapt its contents as long as the book is correctly cited.To the reader who is familiar with the discussions promoting open education, the book provides a clear, concise history leading up to the current state of play and the issues that are presently to the fore.   If you are a newcomer to the debate, this book would be a good place to start.Weller calls advocates for open access to education to become active in the battle to ensure that the original principles of “openness” are not lost and looks at ways an educational institution might handle the changes brought about by the open education movement.   This is an interesting book which looks at the issues of open access in education in depth, is thought-provoking and well worth reading.

scholarly journals APCs in the Wild: could monitoring and tracking of OA payments help speed up the transition to OA?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mithu Lucraft
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Do So

Accelerating progress towards full and immediate open access (OA) is reliant on being able to source adequate funding to cover the costs of gold OA. Monitoring and tracking OA payments has created a complex and challenging role for institutions, but is crucial in order to understand the complete picture of the cost of OA. Whilst some institutions have developed methods to monitor OA payments, there remain a high number of "APCs in the wild", or APC payments whose origins are difficult to track. In this presentation we will summarise research Springer Nature has undertaken to explore the tracking and monitoring of APC payments, including interviews and a survey of global librarians, and data from Springer Nature authors to better understand the sources of APC funding, and the motivations and challenges concerning the monitoring of APCs. We will focus on feedback from institutions on the routes to implement better tracking, and on the noted benefits of being able to do so in enabling a faster transition to OA.  

scholarly journals On the move: Twentieth anniversary editorial of the European Journal of Cultural Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joke Hermes ◽  
Jaap Kooijman ◽  
Jo Littler ◽  
Helen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Fantasy Sports ◽  
Black British ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Do So

Twenty years of the European Journal of Cultural Studies is a cause for celebration. We do so with a festive issue that comes together with our first free open access top articles in three areas that readers have sought us out for: postfeminism, television beyond textual analysis and cultural labour in the creative industries. The issue opens with freshly commissioned introductory essays to these three thematic areas by key authors in those fields. In addition, the issue offers new articles showcasing the range of the broad field of cultural studies today, including pieces on the politics of co-working, punk in China, Black British women on YouTube, trans-pedagogy and fantasy sports gameplay, featuring work by emerging as well as established scholars. Our editorial introduction to this celebratory issue offers reflections on how both the journal and the field of cultural studies have developed, and on our thoughts and ambitions for the future within the current conjuncture as we ‘move on’ as a new editorial team.

Notifying the suspect of the right free advice There is clearly the danger that a person's right to legal advice can be effectively curtailed if they are not aware of it. Code C therefore goes to some lengths to ensure the suspect is aware of the right. The custody officer is required (para 3.5) when he authorises a person's detention in the police station to make sure that the suspect signs the custody record signifying whether he wishes to have legal advice at that point. The revised Code adds the following: 'The custody officer is responsible for ensuring that the person signs the custody record in the correct place to give effect to his decision.' The Code stipulates that police stations must advertise the right to free legal advice in posters 'prominently displayed in the charging area of every police station' (para 6.3). New guidance in the 1995 Code states that (6H): 'In addition to a poster in English advertising the right to legal advice, a poster or posters containing translations into Welsh, the main ethnic minority languages and the principal European languages should be displayed wherever they are likely to be helpful and it is practicable to do so.' The Code also gives precise rules concerning at what point and in what form a person should be notified of the right to get free legal advice. For example, a person who comes to the station under arrest must be told immediately both orally and in writing (paras 3.1, 3.2). The revised Code para states:

2012 ◽  
pp. 408-408
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
European Languages ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

The Right to Science

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
International Law ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Dual Use ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Ideal Tool ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; 'dual use' science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international co-operation, human dignity and other human rights in relation to science and its products. As we advance towards superintelligence, quantum computing, drone swarms, and life-extension technology, serious policy decisions will be made at the national and international levels. The human right to science provides an ideal tool to do so, backed up as it is by international law, political heft, and normative weight. This book is the first sustained attempt at turning this wonder of foresight into an actionable and justiciable right. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Changing the Default to Support Open Access to Education Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 465-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alysia D. Roehrig ◽  
Devin Soper ◽  
Bradley E. Cox ◽  
Gloria P. Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Do So

This essay explores factors underlying the underutilization of Open Access (OA) to make education research literature freely available online, where it can benefit a global audience of researchers, students, teachers, and policymakers. Situating this autobiographical self-study in the context of the broader global and scholarly context, we use Bullough and Pinnegar’s (2001) setting-convocation-resolution approach to present our stories as points of departure for reflection, conversation, research, and action. We do so to raise awareness and enhance understanding of the complex and rapidly evolving legal, ethical, and practical issues surrounding public accessibility to scholarship. We also issue a call to action by outlining concrete, stakeholder-specific steps that would help OA become the new default for publication of education research.

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