Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

Rosaria Ciriminna; Antonino Scurria; Sumalatha Gangadhar; Saikiran Chandha; Mario Pagliaro

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08638

Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

Heliyon. 2021 Dec 18;7(12):e08638. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08638. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Rosaria Ciriminna¹, Antonino Scurria¹, Sumalatha Gangadhar², Saikiran Chandha², Mario Pagliaro¹

Affiliations

¹ Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy.
² Typeset, 3260 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA.

Abstract

Regardless of multiple efforts carried out across many countries to disseminate the ideas and the practice of open science, most scholars in the early 2020s do not self-archive their research articles and do not publish research papers in preprint form. Having received no education and training on open science, researchers are often puzzled on what to do, in practice, to start reaping the benefits of open science. This study offers a succinct vademecum on how to benefit from the open science approach to scholarly communication, no matter whether in natural or in humanistic and social sciences.

Keywords: Open access; Open science; Preprint; Scholarly publishing; Self-archiving.