"scientific writing in an open platform" - workshop opening up science
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„Scientific writing in an open platform“
Christian Heise
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christianhei.se• political scientist in cultural studies interested in „openness“ (biased?)
• worked in (media) publishing industry (DIE ZEIT/German Press Agency)
• changed to Leuphana University (Centre for Digital Cultures / Hybrid Publishing Lab) researching new forms of scholarly communication in the digital age, Lecturer in the Digital Media Bachelor’s program
• opening up networks at Förderverein Freie Netzwerke e.V. (freifunk.net)
• opening up knowledge at Open Knowledge Foundation Germany e.V. (okfn.de)
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My doctoral thesis• rough focus: research on the status of openness in scientific
communication & actually do open science as part of the needed negotiation process on the criteria of the future of science
• amongst other things, inspired by my work on the translation of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI 10) Recomondations
• handed in an Exposé in November 2012 and opened it immediately ;)
• asked PhD commission in 2013 if it’s possible to write the whole PhD „as open as possible“
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Thesis: From Open Access to Open Science
Structure of the Thesis (live.offene-doktorarbeit.de):
1. Basics on Open Access/Open Science and more about the history of openness in science
2. Evaluate on debates on openness in literature, identifying challenges regarding openness in scientific communication
3. Conducting a survey: comparative study asking more than 1.112 (german-speaking) scientists on various issues of openness in scientific communications
4. Ethnographic research: documenting the process of writing a PhD as open as possible
5. Discussion and Conclusion
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„Publish everything of the PhD research process as soon as possible, as comprehensive as possible under an open license (see opendefinition.org),
online available at all time for everyone.“ — http://offene-doktorarbeit.de/ueber/
What does „open as possible“ mean? (including a promise)
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What does „open as possible“ mean?
• planning and development of the scientific research question (Exposé) live in a Blog
• documented research process (writing, survey, presentations in colloquium…) live in a blog and on a writing platform (Authorea) as soon as the PhD commission allowed to do that
• research analysis and evaluation procedure was done open —> interim results and raw data were published immediately on the Blog and via data wrapper
• communication of the results was also done immediately and in open formats (.csv)
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(main) Obstacles• organizational: Permission by the University took nearly a year December
2013
• social: fear orthography, fear of make a fool of oneself :), fear of idea theft…
• technical: technical issues (Authorea could not handle the length), Platforms for Scientific writing were very rare in 2013 and did not fulfill the requirements
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(part of the) Solution• organizational: don’t stop arguing and wait ;)
• social: get used to it…
• technical: connected Authorea to GitHub; build own Software to show .tex from GitHub (authorea-github-tex-reader@GitHub) see: http://live.offene-doktorarbeit.de
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Tips• check if openness is „allowed“ if not: try to get the permission
• gather technical know-how on the process of digital publishing/research methods
• make a good decision on the software you want to use
• schedule some extra time for the open process
• don’t expect to much and be careful with feedback
• document your work well
• use an open license
• What happens on the Internet stays on the Internet
• use your social networks and make the project public
• always make clear that your work ist work in progress
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Q: How to overcome the „fear“ of opening up science? A: Just do it, it does not hurt!
Q: What are good reasons to open up science? A: By doing it, you can help to shape the criteria for the
future of science (in a digital world)!
Q: What is in it for me? A: Help to save the principles of academic autonomy and
freedom!
Conclusion
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What else?
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Let's keep in touch
http://christianhei.sehttp://offene-doktorarbeit.de
@christianheise