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What it means to be an Open Scholar
This document discusses what it means to be an open scholar. It begins by outlining traditional models of journal publishing and then discusses open access journals and mandates from funding agencies that require research to be openly accessible. It explains that open access expands access to research for academics and researchers around the world. It provides examples of how the public is interested in accessing scholarly research, such as through Wikipedia. The document argues that being an open scholar improves research quality and increases opportunities through greater access and connections. It advises open scholars to put unfinished work online, make their work easily findable, and consider organizing research in non-traditional ways beyond individual papers.
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- 1. What it meansto be an Open Scholar #oaweek Stian Håklev (CC BY) University of Toronto at Scarborough October 22, 2013
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- 3. Traditional models ofpublishing
- 4. Journal publishing process readers journal copyediting layout editor peer-reviewers author(s)
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- 13. Announced 6 monthsago, covers NSF, Ed, EPA, NASA, USDA, HHS, Commerce, Interior, Defense, Energy, Trans, DHS, Ag, State, Smithsonian To develop implementation within 6 months, max 12 months embargo, covers both articles and data
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- 16. Expanded access andlower costs for academics and researchers everywhere
- 17. Whether at topinstitutions, or community colleges, whether in Beijing or Varanasi
- 18. OA makes articlesmore accessible, even for those who already have access
- 19. Giving the broaderpublic access to our research
- 20. Are the publicreally interested in access? A few examples...
- 22. Wikipedia is agreat academic resource - as a starting point for further research
- 23. 22,000+ students areaccessing OA articles as part of their course
- 24. Enabling new formsof communicating and organizing scholarly output
- 25. “The Open Scholar,as I'm defining this person, is not simply someone who agrees to allow free access and reuse of his or her traditional scholarly articles and books; no, the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its development.” Gideon Burton, www.academicevolution.org
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- 58. Being an OpenScholar Improves the quality of your research Increases your connections, reach, opportunities “Flattens” the world of academia Don’t have to do all, but try some of it!
- 59. How do peoplefind you? It takes time, but quality content gets recognized Comment on others’ blogs, retweet or answer Tweets Conferences, hashtags Don’t be so afraid of putting out unfinished work Make it possible to “follow” you
- 60. Current research, projects inprogress
- 72. “One of themain points behind doing threads was to bring the companion papers together with the main papers. To make it work you needed to make all of the papers open access. This could just not be done without the papers being open access.”
- 73. A paper isn’tnecessarily the best “unit of organization”
- 75. Adding meaning toarticles, enabling knowledge to be mapped out
- 76. slide by Anitade Waard “What is inside our full-text articles, and how do we improve access to it? Or: Stories, that persuade with data.”, Anita de Ward
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