Open Access: what's in it for me as an early career researcher?

Pontika, Nancy

doi:10.22323/2.14040304

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“…With the notion that publishing is a time-consuming activity and a force that pressures them towards career promotion and grants (Pontika 2015), there is also a tendency for ECRs to commit publication misconduct. For instance, other researchers, including ECRs, often submit articles in a low-impact journal and then submit a similar paper to another indexed journal (Kıraç, 2016) as a way to respond to the need to have more publications.…”

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Malaysian early career researchers on the ethics of scholarly publishing

Abrizah

Shah

Nicholas³

2019

MJLIS

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Publication ethics are rarely taught. This paper presents research into the knowledge of scholarly publishing ethics among Malaysian early-career researchers (ECRs). This research comes from year two of a projected three-year-long study of ECRs from seven countries (China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, the UK, and the US), for which semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with study participants. For the findings reported in this paper, 12 ECRs from science and social science disciplines at five Malaysian research-intensive universities were interviewed during the period from February to June 2017. The interview record was compared with the previous year's (2016) record to identify changes in interviewees' responses to a set of questions on their knowledge of ethics in scholarly communication. In addition, contextual data were obtained from the CVs of the ECRs. Our findings indicate that the attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian ECRs in relation to scholarly communication ethics have changed in the passage of one year. We observed noteworthy changes in ECRs' knowledge of unethical behaviours. As compared with data from 2016, the ECRs are more verbose in their responses on what is generally regarded as ethical and unethical in research and/or publishing practices. Authorship policies, the academic evaluation system, and the scrutiny which will keep the lid on any unethical behaviours are the most important factors bringing about the changes we observed. This paper suggests that ECRs' manifestation of publishing ethics is gauged through their publishing practices.

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Malaysian early career researchers on the ethics of scholarly publishing

Abrizah

Shah

Nicholas³

2019

MJLIS

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“…This is all the more surprising, as ECRs may be best placed to power the take-up of OA publishing. For one, they may have more compelling reasons than their senior counterparts to view OA publishing in a fa-Despite the fact that ECRs, representing as they do the future and leading the developments to come, whose views and practices are especially significant when it comes to the adoption of open publishing behaviours, they have rarely been singled out for open access studies vourable light, as the reputation-building and career-advancing capabilities associated with OA are particularly advantageous to them as neophyte researchers, still seeking to find their way and establish their standing in academe (Eschert, 2015;Farnham et al, 2017;PhD on Track, 2017;Pontika, 2015). Indeed, junior researchers have been found to hold much more positive views of OA than their senior counterparts Björk, 2020;Nicholas et al, 2015;Delgado-López-Cózar, 2017;Tenopir et al, 2016b;Tenopir et al, 2017).…”

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How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study

Nicholas¹,

Jamali

Herman³

et al. 2020

EPI

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This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether ECRs will be the harbingers of change when it comes to scholarly communications. Proceeding from the notion that today’s neophyte researchers, believed to hold millennial values of openness to change, transparency and sharing, may be best placed to power the take-up of OA publishing, the study sought to discover: the extent to which ECRs publish OA papers; the main reasons for their doing or not doing so; and what were thought to be the broader advantages and disadvantages of OA publishing. The survey data is presented against a backdrop of the literature-based evidence on the subject, with the interview stage data providing contextualisation and qualitative depth. The findings show that the majority of ECRs published in OA journals and this varied by discipline and country. Most importantly, there were more advantages and fewer disadvantages to OA publishing, which may be indicative of problems to do with cost and availability, rather than reputational factors. Among the many reasons cited for publishing OA the most important one is societal, although OA is seen as especially benefiting ECRs in career progression. Cost is plainly considered the main downside.

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“…For example, ECRs experience pressure to publish in prestigious journals to meet the demands of academic job criteria (Siegel & LaMarre, 2019). Given these ongoing challenges, Open Science tools offer practical benefits for ECRs; for example, open access publications , open data, code, and materials), preprints (Sarabipour et al, 2019), and registered reports are associated with increased citation rates (Hobson, 2019;Piwowar & Vision, 2013;Pontika, 2015;Sarabipour et al, 2019). Many of these tools are considered scientific outputs with their own Digital Object Identifiers, which can help ECRs to establish their scholarly reputation, improve academic curriculum vitaes, and increase employability (Aarts, 2017;Markowetz, 2015;O'Carroll et al, 2017).…”

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Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

Pownall¹,

Talbot²,

Henschel³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Open Science aims to improve the rigour, robustness, and reproducibility of psychological research. Despite resistance from some academics, the Open Science movement has been championed by some Early Career Researchers (ECRs), who have proposed innovative new tools and methods to promote and employ open research principles. Feminist ECRs have much to contribute to this emerging way of doing research. However, they face unique barriers, which may prohibit their full engagement with the Open Science movement. We, ten feminist ECRs in psychology, from a diverse range of academic and personal backgrounds, explore Open Science through a feminist lens, to consider how voice and power may be negotiated in unique ways for ECRs. Taking a critical and intersectional approach, we discuss how feminist early career research may be complemented or challenged by shifts towards Open Science. We also propose how ECRs can act as grassroots changemakers within the context of academic precarity. We identify ways in which Open Science can benefit from feminist epistemology and end with six practical recommendations for feminist ECRs who wish to engage with Open Science practices in their own research.

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Open Access: what's in it for me as an early career researcher?

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Malaysian early career researchers on the ethics of scholarly publishing

Malaysian early career researchers on the ethics of scholarly publishing

How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study

Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

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