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Bringing Open Science Training Back To Basics: The Foundations In Open Science Oer, Sinéad Hanrahan Mar 2024

Bringing Open Science Training Back To Basics: The Foundations In Open Science Oer, Sinéad Hanrahan

Publications

Open Science (OS) seeks to apply the concept of openness across all stages of research practice. It aims to facilitate the dissemination of research at speed and to foster collaboration between researchers (Foster Open Science, 2023). OS is an essential aspect of Responsible Research Practice (ALLEA, 2017) and integral to addressing the complex problems facing the world (UNESCO, 2021). It is thus imperative that research performing organisations provide effective OS training. Anecdotal evidence gleaned over five years of OS Training provision suggests that researchers have less understanding of foundational research practices than library OS instructors anticipate. This further suggests that …


Western University Open Access (Oa) Policy Consultations, Bobby Glushko, Courtney L. Waugh Feb 2021

Western University Open Access (Oa) Policy Consultations, Bobby Glushko, Courtney L. Waugh

Western Libraries Presentations

This presentation was developed to guide campus wide open access policy consultations at Western University on behalf of the Provost's Task Force on Open Access.


Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu Oct 2018

Open Access, Social Justice, And The Moral Imperative: Why Oa Publishing Matters To Wgs, Sarah P. Appedu

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Students in the discipline of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies are uniquely positioned to critically engage with systems of power and apply academic theory to real world practice as a field that has a clear and implicit social justice angle to its scholarship. The Open Access movement can benefit from the critical theories used in WGS as a means of ensuring maximum inclusivity of the movement. Further, WGS students must acknowledge their privileged position within an academic institution and publish in ways that undermine the systems of power that lock up knowledge behind a toll in order to align their …


Open Access At Clemson University, Christopher Vinson, Yang Wu Oct 2018

Open Access At Clemson University, Christopher Vinson, Yang Wu

Presentations

An overview of Open Access practices and resources at Clemson University during Open Access Week 2018.


Scholarly Communication: Solving A Global Crisis - Farrell, Thomas Farrell Apr 2008

Scholarly Communication: Solving A Global Crisis - Farrell, Thomas Farrell

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This is part of a presentation from the 2008 12th Biennial CARL Conference. It offers an overview of the history of Scholarly Communication and the Open Access movement, with examples from around the world. Other presentations from this CARL panel are available at: http://carl-acrl.org/Archives/ConferencesArchive/Conference08/during/breakout.html