Framing Power: Tracing Key Discourses in Open Science Policies

Albornoz, Denisse; Huang, Maggie; Martin, Issra Marie; Mateus, Maria Margarida; Touré, Aicha Yasmine; Chan, Leslie

doi:10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2018.23

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“…Understanding OS not only as a set of procedures but also in terms of universal access provides an opportunity to guarantee information and knowledge as a human right, enlarging the social base of science, as well as enhancing epistemic and social justice (Arza, Fressoli & Sebastian, 2017;Clinio & Albagli, 2017;Albornoz et al, 2018).…”

Section: Open Science: the Administrative And The Critical Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach

Oliveira

Marques

Leão

et al. 2021

Journal of Communication

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There is growing consensus among the scientific community members about the urgency of debating ways to promote Open Science (OS). However, the notion of OS itself has been highly controversial, encompassing different meanings and values. Two distinct conceptions have emerged: the first highlights principles such as acceleration, efficiency, and reproducibility; the second perspective is grounded in participation, social justice, and democratization of knowledge. Both models accomplish distinct goals while facing specific limits and challenges to improve scientific production. Even though the first conception has become more celebrated among some top-ranked journals, we question approaches that standardize scientific practices, neglect global diversity, and undermine the importance of local contexts. By discussing the pioneering role that researchers and journals in Latin America have played toward a pluralistic interpretation of OS, this article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of scientific production in the Global South.

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Section: Open Science: the Administrative And The Critical Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach

Oliveira

Marques

Leão

et al. 2021

Journal of Communication

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“…The societal impact of research has been an increasing factor in policy-making throughout academia in recent years, especially in research evaluation exercises. The drive for Open Science and new forms of knowledge production has been intimately linked, at least at the policy-level, with this agenda [40]. For instance, the EU believes Open Science "instrumental in making science more responsive to societal and economic expectations" [62].…”

Section: Inequities At the Interfaces Of Open Science And Society Industry And Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As argued by Albornoz et al [40], Open Science policies are situated within power imbalances and historical inequalities with respect to knowledge production [cf. 41].…”

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Dynamics of Cumulative Advantage and Threats to Equity in Open Science - A Scoping Review

Ross-Hellauer¹,

Reichmann²,

Cole³

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Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory, understandable, accessible, and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes open will not per se drive wide re-use or participation unless also accompanied by the capacity (in terms of knowledge, skills, financial resources, technological readiness and motivation) to do so. These capacities vary considerably across regions, institutions and demographics. Those advantaged by such factors will remain potentially privileged, putting Open Science’s agenda of inclusivity at risk of propagating conditions of “cumulative advantage”. With this paper, we systematically scope existing research addressing the question: “What evidence and discourse exists in the literature about the ways in which dynamics and structures of inequality could persist or be exacerbated in the transition to Open Science, across disciplines, regions and demographics?” Aiming to synthesise findings, identify gaps in the literature, and inform future research and policy, our results identify threats to equity associated with all aspects of Open Science, including Open Access, Open/FAIR Data, Open Methods, Open Evaluation, Citizen Science, as well as its interfaces with society, industry and policy. Key threats include: stratifications of publishing due to the exclusionary nature of the author-pays model of Open Access; potential widening of the digital divide due to the infrastructure-dependent, highly situated nature of open data practices; risks of diminishing qualitative methodologies as “reproducibility” becomes synonymous with quality; new risks of bias and exclusion in means of transparent evaluation; and crucial asymmetries in the Open Science relationships with industry and the public, which privileges the former and fails to fully include the latter.

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“…, as in open access before it, revolves around the equity and integrity of scholarship but it rarely engages explicitly with the issues challenging research in the Global South. Many policy documents stress the value to competitive advantage or growth; few mention its contribution to sustainability (Albornoz et al, 2018). One of the few exceptions is the work of OCSDnet in developing a concept of "open and collaborative science" (Hillyer et al, 2017;Albornoz et al, 2019).…”

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Librarians’ Perceptions of the Challenges for Researchers in Rwanda and the Potential of Open Scholarship

Cox

Abbott

2021

Libri

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Open scholarship is a major reform movement within research. This paper seeks to understand how open scholarship might address the challenges faced by research in Africa, through a study based on a participatory collaborative workshop to create a partnership with librarians in Rwanda. The literature review identifies three broad perspectives on the apparent under-performance of Rwandan research: one locating the issue in the unequal scholarly communications system, a second pointing to a country deficit and a third blaming cognitive injustices. The Rwandan librarians see researchers as challenged through the pressures on them to publish, the costs of research, poor infrastructure, lack of skills and limited access to literature. Collectively these challenges constitute a critical barrier to research. These limits fit largely the country deficit perspective. Open scholarship as conceived in the Global North is only a small part of the answer to the challenges faced by Rwandan scholars. To promote equity, notions of open scholarship need to take into account the conditions under which research is conducted in less privileged contexts such as Rwanda.

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Framing Power: Tracing Key Discourses in Open Science Policies

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach

Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach

Dynamics of Cumulative Advantage and Threats to Equity in Open Science - A Scoping Review

Librarians’ Perceptions of the Challenges for Researchers in Rwanda and the Potential of Open Scholarship

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