Imagining tomorrow's university: open science and its impact
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- Subject Areas
- Ethical Issues, Science and Medical Education, Science Policy, Computational Science
- Keywords
- open science, education, university, big data
- Copyright
- © 2017 Howe et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Imagining tomorrow's university: open science and its impact. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2781v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2781v1
Abstract
As part of a recent workshop entitled "Imagining Tomorrow's University”, we were asked to visualize the future of universities as research becomes increasingly data- and computation-driven and identify a set of principles characterizing pertinent opportunities and obstacles presented by this shift. In order to establish a holistic view, we take a multilevel approach and examine the impact of open science on individual scholars as well as the university as a whole. At the university level, open science presents a double-edged sword: when well executed, open science can accelerate the rate of scientific inquiry across the institution and beyond; however, haphazard or half-hearted efforts are likely to squander valuable resources, diminish university productivity and prestige, and potentially do more harm than good. We present our prespective on the role of open science at the university.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.