publication . Other literature type . Article . 2014

Putting open science into practice: A social dilemma?

Scheliga, Kaja; Friesike, Sascha;

Open Access

Published: 20 Oct 2014

Publisher: Zenodo

Country: Netherlands

Summary

Abstract

Digital technologies carry the promise of transforming science and opening up the research process. We interviewed researchers from a variety of backgrounds about their attitudes towards and experiences with openness in their research practices. We observe a considerable discrepancy between the concept of open science and scholarly reality. While many researchers support open science in theory, the individual researcher is confronted with various difficulties when putting open science into practice. We analyse the major obstacles to open science and group them into two main categories: individual obstacles and systemic obstacles. We argue that the phenom...

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.12339 , 10.5281/zenodo.12462 , 10.5210/fm.v19i9.5381 ,

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free text keywords: open science, interviews, science 2.0, open access, digital scholarship, online tools, internet research, internet studies, Internet research; internet science; innovation; social science, internet; open science; social dilemma; digital scholarship; science 2.0; collaboration; sharing; academic research practices; qualitative research; interviews; science policy, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Communications, Law, Sociology, Public relations, business.industry, business, Social dilemma, Realm, Science policy, Outline of social science, Science education, Social science education

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