Abstract
Regardless of multiple efforts carried out across many countries to disseminate the ideas and the practice of open science, most scholars in the early 2020s do not self-archive their research articles and do not publish research papers in preprint form. Having received no education and training on open science, researchers are often puzzled on what to do, in practice, to start reaping the benefits of open science. This study offers a succinct vademecum on how to benefit from the open science approach to scholarly communication, no matter whether in natural or in humanistic and social sciences.
Highlights
The limits of conventional scholarly publishing as it developed in Europe in the late 1600s in the form of academic journals publishing scientific articles sent to academies in “sealed envelopes” were already known in the early 1800s to Evariste Galois
In 1994, Harnad, a professor of cognitive science in Montreal, published in a mailing list a “subversive proposal” [3] asking researchers to make copies of all the papers they published in scholarly journals freely available on the Internet
Scholars do not have to wait for the assessment criteria to change to start doing open science. This was recently shown by the quick policy reversal on a preprint ban in grant applications issued by the Australian Research Council (ARC) [39]
Summary
The limits of conventional scholarly publishing as it developed in Europe in the late 1600s in the form of academic journals publishing scientific articles sent to academies in “sealed envelopes” were already known in the early 1800s to Evariste Galois. The presentations given at these conferences usually made openly accessible on preprint platforms, and the video recordings published on the web are truly useful educational resources [15] Regardless of these and related efforts to disseminate the ideas and the practice of open science, most world's scholars in the early 2020s do not yet publish their works in preprint form and do not self-archive their research articles, with entire research fields, like the basic science of chemistry [16], still dominated by the practice to publish research papers in paywalled journals. This study offers a succinct vademecum on how to benefit from the open science approach to scholarly communication, no matter whether in natural or in humanistic and social sciences
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