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Research Project: Quantifying Air and Water Quality Benefits of Improved Poultry Manure Management Practices

Location: Poultry Production and Product Safety Research

Title: Navigating open access and open science and what it means for early career members

Author
item Ashworth, Amanda

Submitted to: Popular Publication
Publication Type: Popular Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/20/2021
Publication Date: 5/21/2021
Citation: Ashworth, A.J. 2021. Navigating open access and open science and what it means for early career members. Popular Publication. CSA News.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: There are increased discussions around Open Access and Open Science in journals and our Tri-Societies, but what does Open Access and Open Science really mean? Here we try to dissect its meaning for Early Career scientists and professionals. Open Science is broadly focused on making the communication of research open, transparent, and reproducible for current and future generations. Many publishers argue that the future of science is Open—and with increased “openness”, comes improved reproducibility in science. Examples of how some journals are increasing the transparency include enforcing open data policies, such as ensuring the transparency and accessibility of data accompanying all published articles. Some journals even provide outputs like registered reports, protocols, and published peer review history to go one step further in contextualizing their work to ensure it remains replicable in efforts to make science sharable and reusable without restriction. Open Access is the free, immediate online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles full in the digital environment, according to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. The distinction between Open Access and non-Open Access publishing options is that Open Access transfers the cost of an article from the subscriber to the author(s).