Journal article
Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive
Publications (Basel), Vol.11(3), 41
07/08/2023
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Abstract
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.
Details
- Title
- Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive
- Creators
- Paul Longley Arthur - Edith Cowan UniversityLydia Hearn - Edith Cowan UniversityJohn C. Ryan - Southern Cross UniversityNirmala Menon - Indian Institute of Technology (Indore, India)Langa Khumalo - North-West University
- Publication Details
- Publications (Basel), Vol.11(3), 41
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Identifiers
- 991013134160902368
- Copyright
- © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article