dear all, Been thinking with others in Edinburgh about a one-day event on "Open Scholarship" up here, perhaps attached to the Repository Fringe in early September which will provide space in the e-Science centre the day before.
This would involve, open access to publications and to theses, open research data sharing, open archiving and preservation and practises. Openness in methods of analysis and algorithms for generalising data. Open process for peer review in academic journals, how to make that workable. Openness in research funding allocation; openness in administrative practice which lowers the burden of work and allows for easier shared evaluation of success; etc. In Scotland in 2004 there was an "open access declaration" which many universities signed up to, and an aim would be to draft and approve a declaration to go out for wider review. http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm I wonder who is interested in this, or may have something to suggest re the shape or scope of such a gathering - there would only be six weeks to get it together, not to plan something too big. thoughts? _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
