eprintid: 10147617
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datestamp: 2022-04-29 14:31:35
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creators_name: Mahony, Simon
title: Toward openness and transparency to better facilitate knowledge creation
ispublished: inpress
divisions: C01
divisions: F15
divisions: B03
divisions: UCL
note: © 2022 The Author. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for Information Science and Technology.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: Changes in modes of publication over recent decades and moves to publish material freely and openly have resulted in increased amounts of research and scholarly outputs being available online. These include teaching and other material but consist mostly of research publications. There have been significant UK and European initiatives as part of the Open Agenda that facilitate and indeed mandate the move to open whether that is for educational materials, research output and data, or the mechanisms for ensuring the quality of these materials. A significant issue is that although making research outputs freely available is praiseworthy, without the data on which that research is based, reproducibility and so verification, which are fundamental principles of scholarly methodology, are not possible. When discrete datasets are linked openly and freely, are able to interact by using common standards, they become more powerful with extended possibilities for research questions that cross disciplinary divides and knowledge domains. There are always objections and resistance to new innovations, and open publication is no exception; published research, nevertheless, indicates that publishing material openly is becoming considered to be “good research practice” and that the positives of “new collaborations and higher citation” outweigh any perceived negative effects.
date: 2022-04-27
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24652
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1951144
doi: 10.1002/asi.24652
lyricists_name: Mahony, Simon
lyricists_id: SBMAH78
actors_name: Mahony, Simon
actors_id: SBMAH78
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
citation:        Mahony, Simon;      (2022)    Toward openness and transparency to better facilitate knowledge creation.                   Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology        10.1002/asi.24652 <https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24652>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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