Published In
College & Research Libraries
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2017
Subjects
Peer review, Communication in learning and scholarship, Scholarly publishing -- Technological innovations, Scholarly communication
Abstract
Guest Editorial
Open source. Open access. Open data. Open notebooks. Open government. Open educational resources. Open access workflows. To be open is to have a disposition favoring transparent and collaborative efforts.
Open is everywhere. Since the late 90’s when developers in Silicon Valley adopted the term ‘open source’ (suggested by Christine Peterson), the open movement has grown by leaps and bounds. The developers, who met after the web browser company Netscape made its source code open, articulated that ‘open’ “…illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community." It also separated ‘open source’ “…from the philosophically- and politically-focused label ‘free software.’”
Rights
©2017 Emily Ford, Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) CC BY 4.0.
DOI
10.5860/crl.78.4.406
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19972
Citation Details
Ford, E. (2017). Advancing an Open Ethos with Open Peer Review. College & Research Libraries, 78(4), 406–412.
Description
Article is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.4.406