Open Scholarship

Open Scholarship Defined

Open Scholarship is an umbrella term for open practices in the scholarly environment. It encompasses open access, open research, and open education. It is intended to serve the academic community and the public.

HELIOS Open, the Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship, defines Open Scholarship as “an expansive term means to encompass the rapid and widespread sharing of a range of scholarly activities and outputs, across disciplines.

Open scholarship promotes inclusivity, transparent and trustworthy research, innovation, and collaboration.”

Examples of Open Practices

• Publishing open access to eliminate barriers to information sources for other scholars and the larger public (open access)
• Making research processes, workflows, data, software and code open to increase the accessibility and reproducibility of research (open research, open science)
• Creating and/or using open educational resources (OER) that lower costs for students and increase access to educational materials (open education)
• Incorporate pedagogical practices that encourage students to become creators of knowledge (open education)
• Promoting transparency through open peer review (open research, open science)

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