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    Universities and Knowledge Sharing: Evaluating progress to openness at the institutional level

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    Authors
    Montgomery, Lucy
    Neylon, Cameron
    Hosking, Richard
    Huang, Karl
    Ozaygen, Alkim
    Wilson, Katie
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Montgomery, A. and Neylon, C. and Hosking, R. and Huang, K. and Ozaygen, A. and Wilson, K. 2019. Universities and Knowledge Sharing: Evaluating progress to openness at the institutional level. In: 23rd International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPub), 2-4 Jun 2019, Marseille, France.
    Source Conference
    23rd International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) 2019
    Additional URLs
    https://elpub.episciences.org/5531
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76421
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Universities are key sites of knowledge creation. Governments and research funders are increasingly interested in ensuring that their investments in the production of new knowledge deliver a quantifiable return on investment, including in the form of ‘impact’. Ensuring that research outputs are not locked behind paywalls, and that research data can be interrogated and built upon are increasingly central to efforts to improve the effectiveness of global research landscapes. We argue that mandating and promoting open access (OA) for published research outputs, as well as the sharing of research data are important elements of building a vibrant open knowledge system, but they are not enough. Supporting diversity within knowledge-making institutions; enabling collaboration across boundaries between universities and wider communities; and addressing inequalities in access to knowledge resources and in opportunities to contribute to knowledge making processes are also important. New tools are needed to help universities, funders, and communities to understand the extent to which a university is operating as an effective open knowledge institution; as well as the steps that might be taken to improve open knowledge performance. This paper discusses our team’s efforts to develop a model of Open Knowledge that is not confined to measures of OA and open data. The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative is a project of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. With funding from the university, we are exploring the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution’s open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.

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