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Open Access Scholarship

open access

Today's agenda

  1. Doing history differently
  2. Online identity audit
  3. How're the exercises going?

Note: next day, assessing each other's digital identity hqs, online notebooks: what would improve these?

Doing history:

Key elements? Similarities, differences, with other fields?

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Note: Key difference: reproducibility not necessarily a driving motive.

Cathedral & the Bazaar

Eric Steven Raymond

Nick Charney, cathedral/bazaar as network, grabbed from http://www.generalsocial.com/

Caleb McDaniel

  • open source software: this project is dead and I want nothing further with it, so here you go

  • open source software: this project is alive and why don't you help make something cool!

  • which of these matches historians' practices (broadly conceived)?

How is 'failure' framed?

history fail, motivationals.org

DHAwards 2014

Chad Black: Papers of You

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  • Making research process transparent would open to the world the mystical reality of what it is academic historians do with their time.

  • Making research process and materials available would demonstrate a commitment to the scholarly values of exchange, integrity, and open access that represent the better parts of academics' nature.

  • Distributed self-generated collections of archival material will build access particularly to resources from countries without the resources to do it all themselves.

  • Students would get access to the nitty gritty

  • It'd keep people honest

C. Black, The Individual Research Archive: Hacking the “Papers of You” May 28, 2010

Things historians fear

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Michelle Moravec

the piece was rejected. I spiraled into the usual impostor syndrome hole of shame and shelved the piece until I got an email from a prominent scholar who had corresponded with me when I’d first started writing it in public. She was citing my work in her book. Was what audiences always asked me about going to happen? Was I getting scooped on my own research? Moravec, Politics of Women's Culture

The Macroscope

Graham, Milligan & Weingart, "Writing the Macroscope in Public" AHA Perspectives Oct 2014

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Caleb McDaniels

The truth is that we often don't realize the value of what we have until someone else sees it"

  • What does Milligan argue, from a pragmatic point of view?
  • What about Caulfield?

Bosman & Kramer

101 innovations in scholarly communication - on figshare

Easy for you to say, Graham.

What are the risks, rewards for students?

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Making our 'papers of you' available is one thing.

Making them findable, quite another.

  • Scholarly Identity audit: Shawn Graham

  • Find out all you can about me. You have 5 minutes. Go.

stopwatch

Where did you find me?

  • how did you find me?
  • what did you find?
  • were they good things? bad things?
  • what impression do these things leave?

Take control

How are the exercises going?