On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:37 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 was invited to a meeting in Glasgow in 2006 on Open Scholarship http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/openscholarship/ and there was certainly a strong political will there for Scotalnd to be pre-eminent in Opening scholarship. I think the Principal of Glasgow spoke to this effect. So I would certainly think it's appropriate.
-- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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