Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought

Benedikt Fecher and Sascha Friesike

No 218, RatSWD Working Papers from German Data Forum (RatSWD)

Abstract: Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of assumptions about the future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at structuring the overall discourse by proposing five Open Science schools of thought: The infrastructure school (which is concerned with the technological architecture), the public school (which is concerned with the accessibility of knowledge creation), the measurement school (which is concerned with alternative impact measurement), the democratic school (which is concerned with access to knowledge) and the pragmatic school (which is concerned with collaborative research).

Keywords: ratswd; ratswd working paper; data sharing; data management; germany; data availability; open access; research infrastructure; data; replication; data privacy; metadata; research data centre; infrastructure; psychdata; data management; psychology; science cooperation; open science; open access; assessment and review; science 2.0; open data; citizen science; schools of thought; altmetrics; science communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H42 H44 I28 K11 L17 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2013
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