[okfn-discuss] Open Scholarship

Thu Jul 8 10:37:25 UTC 2010

dear all,

Been thinking with others in Edinburgh about a one-day event on "Open
Scholarship" up here, perhaps attached to the Repository Fringe in early
September which will provide space in the e-Science centre the day before.

This would involve, open access to publications and to theses, open
research data sharing, open archiving and preservation and practises.
Openness in methods of analysis and algorithms for generalising data.
Open process for peer review in academic journals, how to make that
workable. Openness in research funding allocation; openness in
administrative practice which lowers the burden of work and allows for
easier shared evaluation of success; etc.

In Scotland in 2004 there was an "open access declaration" which many
universities signed up to, and an aim would be to draft and approve a
declaration to go out for wider review.
http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm

I wonder who is interested in this, or may have something to suggest re
the shape or scope of such a gathering - there would only be six weeks
to get it together, not to plan something too big.

thoughts?