[open-science] Translations of open science roadmap documents in Poland

Sat Feb 23 09:34:57 UTC 2013

Pawel

of course it would be interesting to read what you guys are doing i Poland,
but I wonder

why was the original document not written in english in the first place
(the lingua franca
for scientific communication afaik)

translations can be awkard, costly, need checking etc

P

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Paweł Szczęsny <ps at pawelszczesny.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Currently there are two roadmap documents concerning development of
> open science in Poland in the works. One is an initiative of research
> community (open science working group of movement called Citizen of
> Science) and will concern general directions of development of open
> science in areas of OA, OD, OER, citizen science etc. The other is a
> document on OA (and most likely on OD) prepared by Polish Academy of
> Sciences.
>
> I am involved in preparations of both documents and I cannot promise
> extremely progressive declarations in either of roadmaps (the biggest
> factor is cost of certain 'open' solutions, such as gold OA on hybrid
> terms). Nevertheless, both might be of interest to the international
> open science community.
>
> The question is if there is indeed an interest outside of Poland that
> warrants translations of both documents into English? I don't mind
> providing quick summary after both are published, but that's not I
> mean here. If I have your explicit interest (especially from people
> outside of UK/US), that could help in including international context
> in the roadmap (which I would really like to have). That's why I'm
> asking so early (the work just has started).
>
> Best wishes
> PS
>
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