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Support scholars who share: Combating the mismatch between openness policies and professional rewards
Krzton, Ali

PublishedApril 2019
ConferenceAssociation of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019, Recasting the Narrative
Pages 578-586
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
Progress in scholarship is dependent upon access to knowledge. The internet has connected information seekers to scholarly works faster and more easily than at any other time in human history. That said, librarians and other information professionals have consistently called attention to the aspects of the new status quo in scholarly communication that fail to live up to the promise of offering broader opportunities for meaningful participation in research. In 2002, stakeholders frustrated at the persistence of cost barriers within the ecosystem drafted the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which helped the open access movement to coalesce around a common set of principles. Since its release, much progress has been made towards its goals; there are more products of research available online to anyone with a browser than ever, including scholarly articles, datasets, software code, and related web apps. For librarians and other advocates of open research, pushing for change is about more than controlling serials costs. It is fundamentally about a commitment to values: equitable access, reproducibility, and the integrity of research. This is why the slow pace of change and the persistence of restrictions and limitations have caused such frustration...

Keywords best practices · institutional policy · open research · open scholarship

Published atCleveland, Ohio
RefereedYes
RightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Canada (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 CA)
URLhttp://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2019/SupportScholarsWhoShare.pdf
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