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Open scholarship includes all forms of openness in the teaching and research environment. It enables free access to research outputs and educational resources outside paywalls and beyond the academy, 'changing how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared'. By embracing open practices and frameworks, our researchers, teachers and students will join a world-wide movement of scholars with deep links into their communities.
Arthur, P. L., Hearn, L., Montgomery, L., Craig, H., Arbuckle, A., & Siemens, R. (2021). Open scholarship in Australia: A review of needs, barriers, and opportunities. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(4), 795-812. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa063 (author accepted manuscript)
This infographic shows how concepts relating to teaching and research are supported by the tools of open access and open licensing. Read on below about these relationships.
At RMIT, open scholarship encompasses both teaching and research.
Teaching - open educational practice |
Research - open research |
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Open educational practice concepts include:
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Open research concepts include:
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In practice, two concepts support open scholarship: open access and open licensing.
Open access |
Open licensing |
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When we say open access, we are asking:
Example practices include:
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When we talk about open licensing we are asking:
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