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Statement, 2003). Furthermore, CreativeCommonswere established as an associ-
ation todevelopglobal open licenses for different purposes.Currently, six licenses
aredefinedbasedupon four conditions: 1.Attribution (“by”), 2.ShareAlike (“sa”),
3.NonCommercial (“nc”) and4.NoDerivates (“nd”).
AmorenarrowunderstandingofOpenScience reallocates itsorigin in theemer-
genceoftheterm“Science2.0”duringthefirstyearsofthiscentury,morepreciselyin
thelater2000s(Mirowski,2018).Inthisperspective,OpenScienceisare-brandingof
Science2.0byTheNewYorkTimes (Lin,2012)andtheBritishRoyalSociety (2012)
in theyear2012.Asaconsequence, therewas theappearanceofmanypopularpub-
lications,white papers andpolicy documents, aswell as of several institutions and
initiatives promotingOpenScience,mainly inNorthernAmerica including a tele-
vision series (“TheCrowdand theCloud”, broadcasted by the channel PBS in the
year 2017 and fundedby theAmericanNational ScienceFoundation) dedicated to
the“OpenSciencePrice” (Mirowski, 2018).
2.3 CurrentState-of-the-ArtofOpenScience
Thissectionwillprovideanoverviewofthecurrentstate-of-the-artofOpenScience.
TheDigitalAgefostersnewwaysofcommunicationandknowledgesharingthatare
changingsocialprocessesandsocietiesincludingsciencedisciplinesandinstitutions
(Peters&Roberts, 2012;Stracke,2018a,b,2017a,b, c).
OpenScience is considered as aparadigmchange that is challenging traditional
research to improve accuracy, trust and transparency through openness standards
facilitating replications (Makel&Plucker,2017). It leads toachangeofbehaviours
in thepublications, aswell as in the research itself,whatVazire (2018)considersas
acredibility revolution.
2.3.1 DefinitionofOpenScience
OpenScienceisabroadfieldwithmanydivergentperspectivesfromdifferentstake-
holdersandthus,severaldefinitionsofOpenScienceexist(Vicente-Saez&Martinez-
Fuentes, 2018). Several stakeholder groups are not aware of this situation and the
lack of a common understanding and of a formal definition is identified (Arabito
&Pitrelli, 2015;EuropeanCommission,2015;Kraker,Leony,Reinhardt&Beham,
2011;OECD,2015).ManymovementsofOpenScienceappearedinthelastdecades
and can be differentiated in several ways (Borgman, 2007). Fecher and Friesike
(2014) tried to distinguishfive schools of thoughts (democratic, pragmatic, infras-
tructure, public andmeasurement) but these schools areoverlapping andcannot be
differentiatedclearly.Thus, I agreewith thesummarybyFecherandFriesike: “The
Radical Solutions and Open Science
An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education
- Title
- Radical Solutions and Open Science
- Subtitle
- An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education
- Editor
- Daniel Burgos
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-981-15-4276-3
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.1 cm
- Pages
- 200
- Category
- Informatik