Öppen vetenskap : Hur vetenskap kan förstås utifrån ett förändrat samhälle
(2021) ABMM54 20211Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract
- Modern science, as we today know it has its roots in Europe during the renaissance, philosophers then begun to form knowledge on the rules for how nature science should work in its quest in understanding the universe. The seventeenth century was also when scientific journals came into circulation, this represents a great leap in how science was communicated in contrast to earlier private correspondence directly between scholars. Scientific communication is also what my thesis mainly is about, it is about Open Access and that what followed; Open data, Open education, Open educational resources and so forth. All these parts that are gathered in the concept of open science, it also have other labels – like open research and open scholarship –... (More)
- Modern science, as we today know it has its roots in Europe during the renaissance, philosophers then begun to form knowledge on the rules for how nature science should work in its quest in understanding the universe. The seventeenth century was also when scientific journals came into circulation, this represents a great leap in how science was communicated in contrast to earlier private correspondence directly between scholars. Scientific communication is also what my thesis mainly is about, it is about Open Access and that what followed; Open data, Open education, Open educational resources and so forth. All these parts that are gathered in the concept of open science, it also have other labels – like open research and open scholarship – as not everyone can agree on which research fields can and cannot be considered scientific.
Open science is a concept that have grown the last 10 to 15 years ever since open access became a serious contender to traditional publishing. It is today advocated by major political organisations, and the aim of this thesis is to shed some light on how a few of these organisations, through their policy papers, present their view on open science to create some form of understanding on the phenomena.
There are three main conclusions in this thesis, the first is based on the consistent use of terms like efficiency, transparency and productivity, wording also used to promote new public management – this suggests that open science as it is presented in these policy papers are influenced by a broader political agenda, ideas proponent of free market ideals with influences from the corporate sector. Secondly, the view on science as one practise, governable by one set of rules, seems to dominate the studied policy documents, even if disparity indeed is problematised in a few places. Lastly, the papers very much agree on that there have to be a significant change in the culture of research to implement open science, which is going to be achieved primarily by offering incentives for transitioning, which suggests that maybe open science is not so much about scientific progress. (Less)
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- author
- Fritz, Björn LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Open Science : How Science Can Be Understood In a Changed Society
- course
- ABMM54 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Open science, open research, open scholarship, new public management, research culture, library and information studies, political policy
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9049982
- date added to LUP
- 2021-06-24 22:10:36
- date last changed
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abstract = {{Modern science, as we today know it has its roots in Europe during the renaissance, philosophers then begun to form knowledge on the rules for how nature science should work in its quest in understanding the universe. The seventeenth century was also when scientific journals came into circulation, this represents a great leap in how science was communicated in contrast to earlier private correspondence directly between scholars. Scientific communication is also what my thesis mainly is about, it is about Open Access and that what followed; Open data, Open education, Open educational resources and so forth. All these parts that are gathered in the concept of open science, it also have other labels – like open research and open scholarship – as not everyone can agree on which research fields can and cannot be considered scientific.
Open science is a concept that have grown the last 10 to 15 years ever since open access became a serious contender to traditional publishing. It is today advocated by major political organisations, and the aim of this thesis is to shed some light on how a few of these organisations, through their policy papers, present their view on open science to create some form of understanding on the phenomena.
There are three main conclusions in this thesis, the first is based on the consistent use of terms like efficiency, transparency and productivity, wording also used to promote new public management – this suggests that open science as it is presented in these policy papers are influenced by a broader political agenda, ideas proponent of free market ideals with influences from the corporate sector. Secondly, the view on science as one practise, governable by one set of rules, seems to dominate the studied policy documents, even if disparity indeed is problematised in a few places. Lastly, the papers very much agree on that there have to be a significant change in the culture of research to implement open science, which is going to be achieved primarily by offering incentives for transitioning, which suggests that maybe open science is not so much about scientific progress.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Öppen vetenskap : Hur vetenskap kan förstås utifrån ett förändrat samhälle}},
year = {{2021}},
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