[open-science] Fifty Shades of Open

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Sun May 15 15:54:45 UTC 2016


OK - scratch that - works for me now.

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I've just read a really excellent essay on openness. Thought I'd share it
> with you. Could be an extremely useful reference for anyone wanting to
> point to what we mean by 'open' in many different contexts.
>
> Pomerantz, J. and Peek, R. 2016. Fifty shades of open. First Monday
> http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6360
>
> Abstract
>
> Open source. Open access. Open society. Open knowledge. Open government.
> Even open food. The word “open” has been applied to a wide variety of words
> to create new terms, some of which make sense, and some not so much. This
> essay disambiguates the many meanings of the word “open” as it is used in a
> wide range of contexts.
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
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