[okfn-discuss] Open Scholarship

Sun Jul 18 16:52:18 UTC 2010

 <jo at ...> writes:

> 
> 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?
> 
Greetings: we at the University of Queensland are starting a year long effort, 
beginning with a Vice Chancellor sponsored seminar series on
"Open Scholarship", followed by a research project to gather  attitudes,
opinions, and behaviours of our community on this topic. This is a 
pilot towards a larger Australia-wide initiative of similar intent. 

We are looking beyond open access publication, though this is
critically important, to sharing of teaching and learning material 
and ways to measure and recognise these activities 
(open-sharing indices, remix impact measures, etc.). 

We'd be very interested in the activities around these topics 
and would consider contributing the data we've been 
collecting if it falls at a time when we have report on.  
At the very least we'd something to be interested in opening 
up the connection with you on this line of work.

Regards,
Phil

Phillip Long, Ph.D., Prof & Dir.
Centre for Educational Innovation & Technology
University of Queensland