Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Open Science describes the current transition in how research is undertaken, how the outputs are stored and disseminated, how researchers collaborate, how success is measured and how researchers are rewarded for more transparent and collaborative approaches.Open Science has the potential to transform the research landscape.This potential has been successfully tested -if only that -during pandemic times.In 2015, Scientific Knowledge Services (SKS) together with the Library of the University College London (UCL) started an initiative of organising a series of events that aimed to discuss the principles of Open Science at the local level.At that time, it was a significant level of conversation about Open Science at international conferences, but less than necessary at the level of organisations.Moreover, the international supporters of Open Science were more focused on activism while the practical implementations were rare.We couldn't identify consistent events dedicated to Open Science at the local level, at that time.At best, this new approach for research was making a frail presence in conferences dedicated to other topics of research administration and support.Therefore, we thought that building up a series of events focused on Open Science and bringing the conversation at the local level, sounds like a good idea.Supporting Open Science wasn't an obvious route for Scientific Knowledge Services.As an academic content provider, we represented (and still do) publishers and other organisations that sell their content under a business model which was almost entirely based on subscriptions.Changes were underway, but this was the most common situation in 2015.Our many years of membership in LIBER (The European Association of Research Libraries) gave us a better
Author: Tiberius Ignat
Language: Hungarian
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3211246367