{"id":19909,"date":"2024-10-22T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=19909"},"modified":"2024-10-31T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:37:15","slug":"oa-week-2024-community-over-commercialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2024\/10\/oa-week-2024-community-over-commercialization\/","title":{"rendered":"OA Week 2024: Community over Commercialization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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As announced on the official page of the Open Access Week 2024<\/a>, the call is to continue putting \u201cCommunity over Commercialization\u201d and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMBL is committed to providing open and unrestricted access to published research. In supporting EMBL researchers in fostering best Open Science practice, Szil\u00e1rd Library provided more books on topics like Open Access, Open Data and Open Science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is an overview of selected new titles, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n \n Philosophy of Open Science (Cambridge University Press 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Sabina Leonelli<\/p>\n

After reviewing some of the concerns that have prompted calls for more openness, this book highlights how the interpretation of openness as the sharing of resources, so often encountered in OS initiatives and policies, may have the unwanted effect of constraining epistemic diversity and worsening epistemic injustice, resulting in unreliable and unethical scientific knowledge. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Open Access Initiatives: Revolutionizing Information Resource Centers for Knowledge Dissemination (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing 2023) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By S. N. Chari<\/p>\n

Focusing on the pivotal role of Open Access (OA) Initiatives, this book provides a comprehensive examination of how OA is reshaping information access and utilization globally. The book offers a global perspective, spanning continents to showcase OA’s impact and adaptability across diverse cultural and institutional contexts.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Data Science Fundamentals With R, Python, and Open Data (John Wiley & Sons Inc 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Marco Cremonini<\/p>\n

The text examines intricacies and inconsistencies often found in real data, explaining how to recognize them and guiding readers through possible solutions, and enables readers to handle real data confidently and apply transformations to reorganize, indexing, aggregate, and elaborate.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Achieving Global Open Access: The Need for Scientific, Epistemic and Participatory Openness (Routledge 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Stephen Pinfield<\/p>\n

The book argues that, for OA to deliver its potential, it first needs to be associated with ‘epistemic openness’, a wider and more inclusive understanding of what constitutes valid and valuable knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Open Data for Everybody: Using Open Data for Social Good (Chapman and Hall\/CRC 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Nathan Coyle<\/p>\n

Deeply rooted in grassroots social activism, this book explores a journey that led to collaborations with governments globally, based on real hands-on work, aiming to democratize open data. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Future of the Academic Journal (Chandos Publishing 2014) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Bill Cope and Angus Phillips<\/p>\n

A follow-up volume to the first edition of The Future of the Academic Journal, this book is a significant contribution to the debates around the future of journals publishing.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact (MIT Press 2014) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R Sugimoto<\/p>\n

This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics\u2014or \u201caltmetrics\u201d\u2014while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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