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Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science

Haider, Jutta LU (2018) p.17-28
Abstract
Open access has established itself as an issue that researchers, universities, and various infrastructure providers, such as libraries and academic publishers, have to relate to. Commonly policies requiring open access are framed as expanding access to information and hence as being part of a democratization of society and knowledge production processes. However, there are also other aspects that are part of the way in which open access is commonly imagined in the various policy documents, declarations, and institutional demands that often go unnoticed. This essay wants to foreground some of these issues by asking the overarching question: “If open access and open science are the solutions, then what is the problem they are meant to... (More)
Open access has established itself as an issue that researchers, universities, and various infrastructure providers, such as libraries and academic publishers, have to relate to. Commonly policies requiring open access are framed as expanding access to information and hence as being part of a democratization of society and knowledge production processes. However, there are also other aspects that are part of the way in which open access is commonly imagined in the various policy documents, declarations, and institutional demands that often go unnoticed. This essay wants to foreground some of these issues by asking the overarching question: “If open access and open science are the solutions, then what is the problem they are meant to solve?” The essay discusses how demands to open up access to research align also with processes of control and evaluation and are often grounded in ideas of economic growth as constant acceleration. (Less)
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subject
keywords
Open Access, Open science
host publication
Open Divide. Critical Studies on Open Access
editor
Herb, Ulrich and Schöpfel, Joachim
pages
17 - 28
publisher
Library Juice Press
ISBN
978-1-63400-029-1
project
Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the Web
Digital Cultures Research Node
language
English
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yes
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070c067e-5675-455e-a4b2-81f82b6c75a7
date added to LUP
2017-11-27 15:11:36
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2023-04-28 12:40:14
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  author       = {{Haider, Jutta}},
  booktitle    = {{Open Divide. Critical Studies on Open Access}},
  editor       = {{Herb, Ulrich and Schöpfel, Joachim}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-63400-029-1}},
  keywords     = {{Open Access; Open science}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{17--28}},
  publisher    = {{Library Juice Press}},
  title        = {{Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/42547513/haider_openscience_2.pdf}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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