Open Publishing and the Future of Digital Scholarship
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The document discusses the evolution of open publishing in digital scholarship, emphasizing the shift from traditional publication practices to more informal and interactive content sharing. It highlights the importance of community and collaboration in academia, citing the need for quality control measures in open publishing and the role of altmetrics as quality indicators. Additionally, it addresses the challenges faced by open publishing in terms of establishing scholarly legitimacy and reliability.
Open Publishing and the Future of Digital Scholarship
- 1. Beyond Open Access: Open Publishing and the Future of Digital Scholarship Dr. Xiang Ren
- 2. Open Access Meets Social Networking
- 4. Widening “Open Access” • More “informal” content: e.g. blog, preprint • Rich media presentation: e.g. podcast • the access into the whole life-circle of research: e.g. data sharing • Traditionally unpublishable content: e.g. negative results • …
- 5. • The priorities have shifted from authority, quality, and longevity of publications to instant exchange of knowledge, sharing, interactive communication, and continuous updates and remix of content. Paradigm Shifts
- 6. Reorganizing Quality Control • From “filter then publish” to “publish then filter” • Open/Social/Post-publication Peer Review • Social reference management and social filter • Altmetrics as quality indicator
- 7. Open publishing trusts their readers’ capacity to judge the quality and value of academic content and draw on what James Surowiecki has called “the wisdom of crowds” to decide on what is the best work in scholarly contexts.
- 8. • “Open science and the open flow of information are essential to the exchange of ideas. Sharing knowledge is the social glue that holds academic communities together, and publication is the coin of the realm.” (Bergman 2007) Open Culture
- 9. Open Culture • Free • Accessing • Sharing • Connecting • Collaborating • …
- 10. • OP is challenging “scholarly legitimacy through credentialing, peer review, and citation metrics” (Maron & Smith, 2009) • Reliability of new quality control • Rewarding system: formalization and certification Challenges of Open Publishing
- 11. The Open Future • Digital Scholarship: discovery, integration, application, and teaching • Open publishing, open science, and open education
- 12. Dr. Xiang Ren Email: Xiang.Ren@usq.edu.au Twitter: @renxiangcn