Introduction: Open Scholarship in the 21st Century

By Alyssa Arbuckle1, Rachel Hendery2, Luis Menses1, Ray Siemens1

1. University of Victoria 2. Western Sydney University

The concept and practice of open scholarship are gaining prominence in local, national, and international contexts. Although distinct from the Open Access movement, open scholarship activities build on a foundation of access to research output. As…

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The concept and practice of open scholarship are gaining prominence in local, national, and international contexts. Although distinct from the Open Access movement, open scholarship activities build on a foundation of access to research output. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick argues, “[e]nabling access to scholarly work does not just serve the goal of undoing its commercialization or removing it from a market-driven, competition-based economy, but rather is a first step in facilitating public engagement with the knowledge that universities produce” (2019, 148). Open access, here, is a crucial “first step” to something broader, more complex, and importantly, more centred on public engagement...

[This publication is an introduction to the proceedings of 2 related conferences: "Knowledge Engagement in the 21st Century: Approaches to Open, Digital Scholarship" (December 2019, Newcastle, NSW, AUS) and "Open Scholarship for the 2020s" (January 2020, Victoria, BC, CAN).]

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Original publication: Arbuckle, Alyssa, Rachel Hendery, Luis Meneses, and Ray Siemens. 2020. “Introduction: Open Scholarship in the 21st Century.” Pop! Public. Open. Participatory. 2: n.p. DOI:10.48404/pop.2020.01

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