Access to scientific literature and resources
As announced on the official page of the Open Access Week 2024, the call is to continue putting “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community.
EMBL is committed to providing open and unrestricted access to published research. In supporting EMBL researchers in fostering best Open Science practice, Szilárd Library provided more books on topics like Open Access, Open Data and Open Science.
Here is an overview of selected new titles, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers.
By Sabina Leonelli
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.
By S. N. Chari
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.
By Marco Cremonini
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.
By Stephen Pinfield
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.
By Nathan Coyle
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.
By Bill Cope and Angus Phillips
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.
Edited by Blaise Cronin and Cassidy R Sugimoto
This book describes recent theoretical and practical advances in metrics-based research, examining a variety of alternative metrics—or “altmetrics”—while also considering the ethical and cultural consequences of relying on metrics to assess the quality of scholarship.