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.
By:
Victoria Martin
Imprint: Libraries Unlimited Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781440872808
ISBN 10: 1440872805
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 24 May 2022
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"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"
Victoria Martin is a librarian with more than 18 years of professional experience in academic librarianship.
Reviews for The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship
Informative, accessible, and pleasant to read, 'The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship' is a worthy addition to the collections of students and faculty, but above all academic librarians. - Technical Services Quarterly
