Open science is advocated by science funders, policy makers, and increasingly scientific communities. Yet, it seems there is little research on the effects of making data and code available, publishing open access or reaching out to the public (e.g. citizen science).
Do you know of studies that measure what effect open science practices have within academia (e.g. increase in citations) OR outside academia (e.g. commercial use of data)?
Please help me collecting hard evidence for the assumption that "open science" is in fact beneficial for scientists, science, and society at large.
Any source recommendations, studies, grey literature on the topic would help.
Thank you very much!
I think open access articles are more potential to receive citations in the future.
Over the past decade, we had to deal with the crippling policies of publishing companies to obtain published articles. This led to the appearance of several hacker websites such as Sci-hup and Libgen. So, publishing companies sued them and they entered a legal dilemma. Publishing open access removes the efforts that the author have to exert in obtaining articles, necessary for his research and will result in a wider readership for science, especially in developing countries.
When articles published by author from developing countries in expensive journals ( for example Elsevier)the libraries in his/her country can't afford to buy the same publications and access is restricted. We know that research is essential in poor countries for sustainable progress in their intellectual and economical development;fundamental sciences (such as physics, chemistry, biology etc.) should be open to all, therefore 'Open Science' is the need of the hour.
Open science.. It is related to open data as well open access resources. Libraries are yet to deal with open data but deal with open access resources. Many western and scarcely eastern countries made mandatory to publish all public funded research in OA resources. Now there is another way of getting acess to lots of science research put on preprint websites such as https://arxiv.org. for review / scrutiny prior to publishing in journals. We all looking forward for increased OA journals. These days predatory journals are identified to overcome cheating of authors. Tnx
Hi
This is a very important question, difficult to answer.
Here are two critical and inspiring papers to think about:
- Saarti, J. & Tuominen, K. (2017). From paper-based
towards post-digital scholarly publishing: an analysis of an
ideological dilemma and its consequences. Information
Research, 22(3), paper 769. Retrieved from:
http://InformationR.net/ir/22-3/paper769.html
- Green, T. (2017). We've failed: Pirate black open access is
trumping green and gold and we must change our
approach. Learned Publishing, 30: 325–329.
doi:10.1002/leap.1116
One of the key points states: "Why, after 20 years of effort,
have green and gold open access not achieved more? Do
we need ‘tae think again’?"
With best regards
Anne-Katharina
Have a look at scientific productivity, internationalization and impact of open science. My former collegue now works at DZHW and does research in bibliometrics --> Aman, Valeria (2016). How collaboration impacts citation flows within the German science system . Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2092-1 She might give you some pointers
I got two perspectives on that question: First, instead of giving you literature, I would recommend that you should contact initiatives that promote open science. Literature on the topic is almost outdated because there is so much development in the field. E.g. there are several Initiatives in Germany from the four large research organizations Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Leibniz and Helmholtz. They account of roughly 50.000 scientists in Germany. Helmholtz Association has an Open Science Bureau for this issue. You should contact them: https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/open_access/
My second point is that researchers from different fields benefit differently from open science. E.g In management science Open Access might be more relevant for increasing citation. But in fact, management science has no natural laws like physics, biology or medicine. It is more abstract and is a way of thinking. But taking life science, like cancer research as an example, the access to new knowledge is much more important for future work.
Nokia's development and the impact on Finland is a good case study on the effect of open scientific data.
I would recommend this article http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/AJIM-09-2016-0159
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