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Open (Social) Scholarship
Definitions
Open scholarship is “the process, communication, and re-use of research as practised in any scholarly research discipline, and its inclusion and role within wider society.” —Jonathan Tennant et al.,1 “Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development”
Open social scholarship “enables the creation, sharing, and engagement of research by specialists and non-specialists in accessible and significant ways.” —INKE Partnership
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Publications
- “An Annotated Bibliography of Social Knowledge Creation,” by Alyssa Arbuckle, Nina Belojevic, Tracey El Hajj, Randa El Khatib, Lindsey Seatter, and Raymond G. Siemens, with Alex Christie, Matthew Hiebert, Jon Saklofske, Jentery Sayers, Derek Siemens, Shaun Wong, and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups.
- Open Science Beyond Open Access: For and With Communities. A Step Towards the Decolonization of Knowledge, by Leslie Chan, Bud Hall, Florence Piron, Rajesh Tandon, and Lorna Williams.
- “Open Social Scholarship Annotated Bibliography,” by Randa El Khatib, Lindsey Seatter, Tracey El Hajj, Conrad Leibel, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Caroline Winter, and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups.
- Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Politics, and Global Politics of Open Access, edited by Martin Paul Eve and Jonathan Gray.
Online bibliographies
- Public Zotero bibliographies:
- Open access publications
Related collections
- Radical OA Coalition information portal
- Canadian Association of Research LIbraries scholarly communication resource
- SPARC popular resources
Open Knowledge
Definition
“‘Open knowledge’ is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute — without any legal, technological or social restriction. [. . .] Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it’s useful, usable and used.” — Open Knowledge Foundation, “What Is Open?”
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Publications
- The Knowledge Society: a freedom-centered perspective, by Wouter Tebbens, Hinde ten Berge, and David Jacovkis
- Open Data and the Knowledge Society, by Bridgette Wessels, Rachel Finn, Thordis Sveinsdottir, and Kush Wadhwa
- Open Definition: Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge, by the Open Knowledge Foundation
- The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, by Rufus Pollock
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by James Boyle
Online bibliographies
- Equity in Open Knowledge: Bibliography, by Project MUSE
- “Open Social Scholarship Annotated Bibliography,” by Randa El Khatib, Lindsey Seatter, Tracey El Hajj, Conrad Leibel, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Caroline Winter, and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups
Open knowledge organizations
Open knowledge initiatives
Open Access
Definition
“Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” —Peter Suber, Open Access
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Publications
- The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, by John Willinsky.
- “OA APC Longitudinal Survey 2019,” by Heather Morrison. sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/11/27/oa-apc-longitudinal-survey-2019/.
- Open Access and the Humanities, Contexts, Controversies and the Future, by Martin Paul Eve.
- “The State of OA: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Open Access Articles,” by Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lisa Matthias, Bree Norlander, Ashley Farley, Jevin West, and Stefanie Haustein.
Open access organizations
- Academic & Scholarly Research Center
- The Access Initiative
- Authors Alliance
- Bioline International
- Coalition for Open Access Policy Institutions
- Confederation of Open Access Repositories
- Harvard Open Access Project
- Open Access Network
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Associations
- Open Humanities Alliance
- Open Source Initiative
- Right to Research Coalition
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Open Data
Definitions
“Open data is defined as structured data that is machine-readable, freely shared, used and built on without restrictions.” —Government of Canada, “Open Data 101”
“Definitions of open data build on the very broad definitions of data and, in an overall sense, open data describes data that is openly available – i.e. accessible, understandable and open to reuse” —Bridgette Wessels, Rachel Finn, Thordis Sveinsdottir, and Kush Wadhwa, Open Data and the Knowledge Society
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Publications
- Data Rich, Data Poor, Data Powerful, Data Powerless: Toward a New Agenda for Data Rights, by Arturo Muente Kunigami et al.2
- “Open Data 101,” by the Government of Canada
- Open Data and the Knowledge Society, by Bridgette Wessels, Rachel Finn, Thordis Sveinsdottir, and Kush Wadhwa
- The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini
- Jonathan Tennant, Jennifer E. Beamer, Jeroen Bosman, Björn Brembs, Neo Christopher Chung, Gail Clement, Tom Crick, Jonathan Dugan, Alastair Dunning, David Eccles, Asura Enkhbayar, Daniel Graziotin, Rachel Harding, Johanna Havemann, Daniel S. Katz, Kshitiz Khanal, Jesper Norgaard Kjaer, Tim Koder, Paul Macklin, Christopher R. Madan, Paola Masuzzo, Lisa Matthias, Katja Mayer, David M. Nichols, Elli Papadopoulou, Thomas Pasquier, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Dan Sholler, Tobias Steiner, Pawel Szczesny, and Andy Turner.
- Arturo Muente Kunigami, Craig Hammer, Cristina Velez, Elena Goldstein, Fabrizio Scrollini, Fabro Steibel, Faith Bosworth, Fernando Perini, Fredy Rodriguez, Gabriela Hadid, Jeni Tennison, Juan Carlos Lara, Laura Bacon, Lucia Abelenda, Luis Alonso Fulchi Maricarmen Sequera, Maria Paz Hermosilla Cornejo, Maurice McNaughton, Michael Jarvis, Muchiri Nyaggah, Nancy Salem, Nnenna Nwakanma, Pilar Saenz, Richard Stirling, and Teemu Ropponen.