Open Scholarship as a mechanism for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

This is a UTS ePRESS Blog republication of a CC BY preprint (title above) submitted to Policy Forum section of Science

Authors of original preprint:

Jonathan P. Tennant, Wojciech Francuzik, Daniel Dunleavy, Benedikt Fecher, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Tobias Steiner

Preprint excerpt:

One sentence summary:

We are making an open call to support a global organisation and infrastructure that will strategically implement open scholarship to effectively meet the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

Abstract:

Traditional methods of scholarly publishing and communication are ineffective in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has demonstrated that, in times of need, the global research community can activate and pool its knowledge and resources to collaborate on solving problems. The use of innovative Web-based technologies, including open source software, data-sharing archives, open collaboration methods,and the liberation of thousands of relevant research articles from proprietary sources show us that the fundamental components of a fully open system are readily available, technologically efficient and cost-effective. If we are to achieve the SDGs by 2030, systematic reform and explicit adoption of open scholarship strategies at scale is necessary. We propose that the United Nations and parallel entities take a position of leadership by creating or funding an organisation or federated alliance of organisations to implement these reforms.

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