Creating an Inclusive Research Landscape

An opinion article recently published in the Science Policy Research gateway on F1000Research covers the outcomes from an invitation-only workshop entitled “Imagining Tomorrow’s University.”  The NIH- and NSF-funded workshop brought together early career researchers, university leaders, funding agencies, and eleven organizers and other stakeholders to launch a new dialog around open research –  the current status, opportunities for advancement, challenges that limit sharing, and how universities should adapt to this new landscape.   In this Q&A, we catch up with the article author Daniel S. Katz, Assistant Director, Scientific Software and Applications at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and peer reviewers; Lucy Montgomery, Associate Professor at Curtin University and Olivia Guest, Research Associate at UCL to find out more about their views on open scholarship and how universities can take the best advantage of opportunities brought about by current changes in scholarship and society. One of the themes outlined from the workshop was that open scholarship would benefit society – Can you give your opinion on what you believe the benefits to society would be? OG: The main benefits to society, in my opinion, are twofold. Firstly, people will be able to reach a better understanding of what scholars do. This is very important for navigating the 21st-century world where advanced technologies permeate our lives and ethical q...
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