Dear all, To include the contribution to knowledge by humanities people I always speak of open science and scholarship. And to me there is certainly no hierarchical relationsship between open science & scholarship and open education, open source or the other opens. I can live with them being half overlapping.
Best, Jeroen Bosman Utrecht University Library ________________________________ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] on behalf of Heather Morrison [heather.morri...@uottawa.ca] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:27 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Open science as overarching concept: a conceptual question There is much in the open science area that I find very fascinating and forward-looking. One example is opening up data to facilitate new discoveries. My own perspective is that scholarly communication needs a much more basic transformation to fit the new media, not just a shift in formats optimized for print, and much of the open science movement seems to fit with my thoughts in this area. However when people talk about open science the term seems so broad as to be meaningless. Following is one example of a conceptual question that comes up for me that I hope list members can help me with. Sometimes I see people writing or talking about open science as if this were an overarching concept including all of the open movements, such as open access and open education. For me, this is hugely problematic because not all approaches to knowledge consist of science. To make this fit, we either need to change the definition of science, or, if the plan is to eliminate all other forms of knowledge, let's be clear about this and have a discussion about whether this is a good idea. Let's take one element of open education as an example, open textbooks for the K-12 sector. If open science is the overarching concept, does this mean that we are only aiming to provide open textbooks for science courses, or that we consider all kinds of classes to be science courses? Are English, French, and Drama classes now science, and if so, what does the term "science" now mean exactly? Or, is part of the agenda to eliminate all education that does not fit the current definition of "science"? To me one way around this is to have a more generic term for an overarching concept, like "open knowledge" rather than "open science", or to consider the terms and movements as parallel and complementary rather than hierarchical. Insight, anyone? best, -- Dr. Heather Morrison Assistant Professor École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies University of Ottawa Desmarais 111-02 613-562-5800 ext. 7634 Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html heather.morri...@uottawa.ca<mailto:heather.morri...@uottawa.ca>
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