[Open-access] Open Access resources

Thu May 22 12:45:08 UTC 2014

Hi

As for my self, I have not seen anything more easy to grasp as looking at
figure 2 and 3 in the first chapter in this book:
http://book.openingscience.org/basics_background/towards_another_scientific_revolution.htmland
figure 1 in this chapter:
http://book.openingscience.org/basics_background/open_science_one_term_five_schools_of_thought.html

Every chapter in this book is of very high quality in my opinion:
http://book.openingscience.org/

It is one big problem in the very beginning when talking to social
scientists and humanities with that they turn off their attention
immediately when they hear the word "science" or "open". I don't know how
to get their attention, perhaps some controversial debates about
plagiarianism vs. remixing could stir some debate and enthusiasm? See
figure 2 here:
http://book.openingscience.org/vision/dynamic_publication_formats.html

Sönke Bartling & Sascha Friesike explain it very well here:

*"Firstly*, there is a singularity in the English language that
differentiates between knowledge creation that is concerned with the rules
of the natural world (science) and knowledge creation that is concerned
with the human condition (humanities). Throughout the preparation of this
book we constantly ran into this dilemma and we would like to take the
opportunity to tell you that whenever we talk about science we mean any
organized form of knowledge creation (see chapter 06, Sidler:
Open<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19IgWhakIduAZmn6iMEPeVAsnfMESLPP8S5Ohx15WeOo/edit>.
*Secondly*, science is often understood as the product created by a
scientist. And a scientist is understood as someone with a full-time job at
a university or a research institute. Yet, new forms of collaboration reach
far beyond our institutional understanding of doing research, which brings
us to certain dissent."
http://book.openingscience.org/basics_background/towards_another_scientific_revolution.html

Kind regards

Pål Lykkja
University librarian in Economics
University library of Oslo

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> *Summary - I'm looking for engaging open access resources for non experts,
> especially those aimed at humanities and social sciences. Can you help
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/12aPoB2VKoF7vkWN4gEm1hDzGnYaEU-bOYak4zrazEOA/edit#>? *
>
> I'm looking for open access resources which are engaging, and can help
> convince a sceptical academic audience about why they should support open
> access and care about academic publishing. These will go up on a couple of
> websites, including the Open Access Working Group, and a upcoming site
> targeted at engaging those who don't spend their life thinking about
> scholarly publication.
>
> I've been looking but I keep getting stuck. Much of what I find is rather
> dense, contains confusing language etc. I was hoping members of the working
> group might know of further examples/ideas.
>
> We are looking for materials that target humanities and social scientists,
> as well as scientists. These might be videos, flyers, posters, or
> slidedecks for talks that have been given (with appropriate licenses). I've
> been starting to collect these here:
> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/12aPoB2VKoF7vkWN4gEm1hDzGnYaEU-bOYak4zrazEOA/edit#
>
> Any ideas *really* gratefully received. I'm sure lots of people on this
> mailing list know of resources they use when talking to academics about
> this issue.
>
> I'm also looking to understand what resources haven't been created, and
> what other gaps there are. What do people think they really could use for
> advocacy work? Again there is space for this on the spreadsheet - or feel
> free to ping me an email separately.
>
> For the time being, I'm mainly looking for resources in English. If you
> know of any interesting non-English resources, feel free to add them, but
> there will be a specific call for these in a few months time.
>
> If anyone has a problem with using Google Docs, let me know and I'll ping
> you across a .odt version of the document.
>
> Best,
> Michelle
>
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