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OA Week 2019

A collection of 10 posts

DARIAHOpen OA Week Special Edition: Interview Questions for the ScholarLed Team
COPIM

DARIAHOpen OA Week Special Edition: Interview Questions for the ScholarLed Team

DARIAHOpen asked to interview us about the formation, ethos and ambitions of ScholarLed. We were delighted to accept!

  • ScholarLed
    ScholarLed
  • Lucy Barnes
    Lucy Barnes
  • Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
    Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
  • JannekeAdema
11 min read
The Bonds that Fail to Tie Us Together: The Search for Sustainable Open Infrastructure in the UK and Beyond
journals

The Bonds that Fail to Tie Us Together: The Search for Sustainable Open Infrastructure in the UK and Beyond

How can the open community put in place a sustainable infrastructure that helps to support Open Access to scholarship and retain some ownership of the research ecosystem?

  • ScholarLed
    ScholarLed
4 min read
Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements?
diversity

Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements?

The humanities should refrain from implementing a bad solution to a problem that they can avoid. Rather than spending time, energy and budget on transformative agreements with commercial publishers, they should set an example by making sure that alternatives flourish.

  • Demmy Verbeke
3 min read
Open *By* Whom? On the Meaning of ‘Scholar-Led’
scholar-led

Open *By* Whom? On the Meaning of ‘Scholar-Led’

Scholar-led forms of open access can help influence the future of all forms of publishing, through its focus on non-commercial, experimental and collaborative practices. It represents new practices that other publishers could adopt.

  • Sam Moore
    Sam Moore
4 min read
Building a Course Library with OER
OER

Building a Course Library with OER

The advent of open access to scholarly work online offers all teachers a great opportunity to re-think course content: the time has come to start thinking about course libraries instead of course textbooks.

  • Laura Gibbs
    Laura Gibbs
3 min read
Laying the Pavement Where People Actually Walk: Thoughts on Our Chances of Bringing Scholarship Back to the Heart of Scholarly Communication
COPIM

Laying the Pavement Where People Actually Walk: Thoughts on Our Chances of Bringing Scholarship Back to the Heart of Scholarly Communication

What are our options to reduce the gap between established practices of scholarly communication and actual, evolving research practices?

  • Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
    Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
8 min read
Trust and Transparency: Critical Ingredients for Open Access
equity

Trust and Transparency: Critical Ingredients for Open Access

These steps are the beginnings of a movement towards having more trusting and transparent conversations about open systems. If not, we face the risk that open systems will be co-opted by or become rife with the inequities we are aiming to eradicate from the current system.

  • ScholarLed
    ScholarLed
4 min read
Co-creating Open Infrastructure to Support Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Equity
COPIM

Co-creating Open Infrastructure to Support Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Equity

Infrastructure, we contend, is never neutral but involves contest over power. Infrastructure not only determines how we access and who can access information, but whose voices count as “legitimate” scholarship.

  • Yasmeen Shorish
    Yasmeen Shorish
  • Leslie Chan
    Leslie Chan
6 min read
Ownership, Control, Access & Possession in Open Access Humanities Publishing
OA Week 2019

Ownership, Control, Access & Possession in Open Access Humanities Publishing

Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences are better positioned than ever to build adaptive platforms that help to collect, protect and connect cultural knowledge in responsible, ethical and sustainable ways.

  • Mark Turin
    Mark Turin
4 min read
Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow
OA Week 2019

Ten Key Prerequisites to Securely Fund Open Infrastructure Today and Tomorrow

The scholarly communication community needs an open, sustainable infrastructure that is community-owned — one that speaks to our open and academic values.

  • Vanessa Proudman
3 min read
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