behind the firewall, An Open Scholarship Manifesto

[Paola Di Maio]

Greetings peoples

I recently joined this group, following shared threads elswhere (may know a couple of people on this list already)

I took the liberty of editing and posting to Dow Jones a note from the Manifesto generated by the Dastuhl workshop, pasted below FYI

Please send me any notes or authored you want posted to the wire, would be good to spread the open scholarship manifesto behind firewalls

Something about me:

http://personal.strath.ac.uk/paola.dimaio/

Two recent papers  that could be of interest to this list

http://www.ijcsi.org/articles/Towards-a-reference-model-for-open-access-and-knowledge-sharing-lessons-from--systems-research.php

http://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings55th/article/view/1726

best

PDM

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An Open Scholarship Manifesto CWRE000020120308e83800001 Desk Content-wire.com Ltd 337 Words 8 March 2012 Content Wire English Copyright © 2012 Content Wire Research and scholarship lead to the generation of new knowledge. The dissemination of this knowledge has a fundamental impact on the ways in which society develops and progresses, and at the same time it feeds back to improve subsequent research and scholarship. Here, as in so many other areas of human activity, the internet is changing the way things work: it opens up opportunities for new processes that can accelerate the growth of knowledge, including the creation of new means of communicating that knowledge among researchers and within the wider community. Two decades of emergent and increasingly pervasive information technology have demonstrated the potential for far more effective scholarly communication. However, the use of this technology remains limited; research processes and the dissemination of research results have yet to fully assimilate the capabilities of the web and other digital media. Producers and consumers remain wedded to formats developed in the era of print publication, and the reward systems for researchers remain tied to those delivery mechanisms. While not disputing the expressive power of the written word to communicate complex ideas, there is consensus among the technically enlightened community that scholarly communication by means of semantically-enhanced media-rich digital publishing is likely to have a greater impact than communication in traditional print media or electronic facsimiles of printed works. To date, online versions of ‘scholarly outputs’ have tended to replicate print forms, rather than exploit the additional functionalities afforded by the digital terrain. Digital publishing of enhanced papers will enable more effective scholarly communication, which will also broaden to include, for example, better links to data, the publication of software tools, mathematical models, protocols and workflows, and research communication by means of social media channels. Formats and Technologies. A community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing, gathering under the name Force 11, published a recent Manifesto identifying key challenges and recommendations.

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