In the follow up on the Force11/Helmsley Scholarly Commons Working Group workshops in Madrid and San Diego, participants (and steering committee members) have been asked to write a brief description of what we think is the “best direction to develop the principles.” Here’s my two cents.1
I think that the lessons we’ve learned over the last year are the following:
There is (or perhaps could be) such a thing as a “Commons” in scholarly communication;
This approach to scholarly communication could have an immensely disruptive potential, as it could provide a way of completing the always-threatening development of research communication into a Common Pool Resource;
The disruption (and the commons) will not happen without leadership; somebody needs to propose a definition of the boundaries of the commons; explain how this defintion can be used; and create the mechanisms by which it is.
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“Nudge nudge, say no more”: What I think needs to happen next in the Scholarly Commons Project
Posted: October 2, 2016 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: force11, scholarly commons project, scholarly communication | Leave a comment »In the follow up on the Force11/Helmsley Scholarly Commons Working Group workshops in Madrid and San Diego, participants (and steering committee members) have been asked to write a brief description of what we think is the “best direction to develop the principles.” Here’s my two cents.1
I think that the lessons we’ve learned over the last year are the following:
Given this, I think the next step is to work on (3): providing the le Read the rest of this entry »