Beyond Open Access: Open Publishing and the Future of
Digital Scholarship
Dr. Xiang Ren
Open Access Meets Social Networking
Open Publishing
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
• …
• 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
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
Open publishing trusts their readers’ capacity to judge the quality and value of academic content and draw on what James Surowieckihas called “the wisdom of crowds” to decide on what is the best work in scholarly contexts.
• “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
Open Culture
• Free
• Accessing
• Sharing
• Connecting
• Collaborating
• …
• 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
The Open Future
• Digital Scholarship: discovery, integration, application, and teaching
• Open publishing, open science, and open education
