Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Digital Scholarship and Open Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

1. OSCOSS: Opening Scholarly Communication
in Social Sciences
Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on Digital Scholarship and Open
Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences
Christoph Lange1,2
1Enterprise Information Systems, Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of Bonn
2Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS), Sankt Augustin
http://langec.wordpress.com/about
2015-07-22
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2. Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences
what matters? – publications and data
insufficient tool support for collaborative scientific progress;
media discontinuities; loss of information:
word processors can’t access data
reviewers give feedback in a different environment than what
the authors work in
publishing focused on PDF rather than interactive documents
readers restricted to a frozen view of the data
OSCOSS: Opening Scholarly in Social Sciences
funded by the DFG for 2 years from autumn 2015
University of Bonn and GESIS (Leibniz Institute for the Social
Sciences)
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3. The OSCOSS Architecture
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4. The OSCOSS Work Plan
securing user acceptance by respecting tradition:
web publications with a high-quality layout (like print)
information must remain citable by stable page numbers
evaluation with two open access journals:
methods, data, analyses (mda)
Historical Social Research (HSR)
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5. OSCOSS and Beyond
a technical alternative for readers, authors and reviewers
potential to gradually replace the old, incoherent publication
process
making open access journals more “open” (= more reusable)
incentivising the opening of “closed” journals
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