Toward an Inclusive, Open, and Collaborative Science: Lessons from OCSDNet

Hillyer, Rebecca; Albornoz, Denisse; Posada, Alejandro; Okune, Angela; Chan, Leslie

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“…In other words, despite their clear goals for greater democratization of knowledge, open systems have the potential to replicate the very values the movement has sought to challenge [26]. If we are to address the risk of further widening the power imbalances, then efforts to promote openness must be grounded in their historical and socio-political contexts [33,40].…”

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“…To date, the legacies of colonialism continue to shape debates and practices around open scholarship [29,30]. To address these inequities, open scholarship needs to be understood in relation to the histories, socio-cultural contexts, and political powers that have shaped and continue to constrain the philosophical and ethical impulses of openness [26,[31][32][33][34].…”

Section: The Historical Political and Socio-economic Roots Of Open Sc...mentioning

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“…Importantly, by recognizing current barriers collaboratively with stakeholders, OCSD-Net teams have acknowledged that, in changing their culture and policy through long-term strategies and by scaling up openness for the benefit of those disadvantaged, excluded, or otherwise overlooked, open scholarship has the potential to transform the foundational structures of knowledge creation in new and important ways [19,50]. By exposing power relations and inherent biases and by offering spaces, tools, opportunities, and principles that facilitate opportunities for historically marginalized groups to participate in knowledge production and validate new and existing forms of local knowledge, open scholarship can give rise to the concepts of knowledge commons and social justice [41].…”

Section: Framing Open Scholarship For Greater Inclusivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive

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Democratizing access to information is an enabler for our digital future. It can transform how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared, and strengthen the connection between academics and the communities they serve. Yet, open scholarship is influenced by history and politics. This article explores the foundations underlying open scholarship as a quest for more just, equitable, and inclusive societies. It analyzes the origins of the open scholarship movement and explores how systemic factors have impacted equality and equity of knowledge access and production according to location, nationality, race, age, gender, and socio-economic circumstances. It highlights how the privileges of the global North permeate academic and technical standards, norms, and infrastructures. It also reviews how the collective design of more open and collaborative networks can engage a richer diversity of communities, enabling greater social inclusion, and presents key examples. By fostering dialogue with multiple stakeholders, more effective avenues for knowledge production and representation can be built based on approaches that are accessible, participatory, interactive, ethical, and transparent, and that reach a far broader public. This expansive vision of open science will lead to a more unified knowledge economy.

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“…Furthermore, current conceptions of open scholarship developed in the Global North fail (not surprisingly perhaps) to challenge the dominance of English language publishing or seek to open up to alternative epistemologies (Hillyer et al, 2017). However, within the epistemic injustices perspective a different model of open scholarship does have some resonance.…”

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“…Thus, accounts of open science suggest the need to refer to a significantly wider range of open practices. Grigorov et al (2016) (Chan et al, 2015;Hillyer et al, 2017). These arguments suggest that through strengthening the research environment, the local research community would be better able to leverage knowledge to address local problems (e.g.…”

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The Potential of Open Science for Research Visibility in the Global South: Rwandan Librarians’ Perspectives

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2020

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

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The weak visibility of African research outputs and scholarship in established global publication outlets and research networks is often the subject of debate. Encouragingly, some discourses around open science appear to offer a solution for this issue. In this paper we explore whether and how open science can help in addressing the inequities that seem to hinder African scholarship, by taking a closer look at the research environment of one particular country, Rwanda. We drew upon the experiential knowledge of four senior librarians in Rwandan higher learning institutions through a week-long data gathering and engagement workshop. We then analysed this data and compared it to three literature-based perspectives on the issues underlying the perceived invisibility of African scholarship. From our findings, we conclude that research contexts may be systemically and structurally constituted and that open science initiatives may only offer partial solutions when considered within a broader appreciation of these constraints. We offer support to decolonial approaches in reframing these efforts.

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Toward an Inclusive, Open, and Collaborative Science: Lessons from OCSDNet

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive

Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive

The Potential of Open Science for Research Visibility in the Global South: Rwandan Librarians’ Perspectives

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