In Beyond Publication – Increasing Opportunities for Recognizing All Research Contributions, Alice Meadows writes about CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy, and ORCiD , the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, as tools to expand recognition for a broader range of contributions. Besides financial and market factors, institutional reward systems that elevate prestige and limited types of labor also reinforce a closed knowledge production system. In fact, producing works of scholarship and creativity is often a collaborative effort involving multiple roles. Accurate attribution for the different forms of labor that produce scholarly outputs is one step towards recognizing the range of those outputs. CRediT standardizes 14 contributor roles, including conceptualization, data curation, funding acquisition and software, among others. ORCiD has a profile section for multiple types of affiliations through Memberships and Service, and it supports profile population connections for different work types, such as manual, online resource, research tool, test, etc.. In addition to CRediT, ORCiD is integrated with Publons to include peer review work in a scholar’s profile.
Tag: August 2020
Applying principles and values to scholarly publishing
How to practically apply values-driven scholarship to producers and systems that advance open scholarship has been a puzzle. In the Educopia Institute white paper Encouraging Adherence to Values and Principles: A Case for Assessment Strategies, the authors examine over 100 “principles and values” statements from academic institutions and how they relate to scholarly publishing service providers. Institutional reward systems and commercial publishing interests have driven a wedge between professed academic values and publishing practices. This paper provides an annotated inventory of categorized values statements and offers lessons from them, including that specificity more often leads to effective action. The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project takes the adherence challenge one step further with its Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist which has been recently issued for public review through September 30th. The Checklist concretizes an approach to assessing values and principles with specific indicators and examples. As the Framework and Checklist evolve, they will provide very useful models for our Libraries’ efforts to evaluate content and infrastructure service providers according to our stated values.
Labour of Love: an open access manifesto
The authors of Labour of Love: an Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences bemoan a scholarship system driven by profit, prestige and Global North exclusivity which threaten to overtake the Open Access Movement. Citing several discipline-specific cases that both undermine and advance open access, this Manifesto offers recommendations for authors, senior scholars, deans and provosts, librarians and journal editors to pursue and support “scholarship that is collaboratively and responsibly built and shared.” The authors acknowledge the additional stresses of Covid-19 on libraries and urge librarians to “consider supporting scholar-led publishing, whether by small subventions to projects led by faculty and staff at your institution or (more boldly) projects that originate elsewhere but that contribute to a knowledge commons from which all can benefit.”