25.03.2021
Expanding academic publishing practices alongside the digital turn
« The Priority Initiative »Digital Information« by the Alliance of Science Organisations commissioned the working group »Scientific practice« to try and understand how digital technologies can support and change the growth of scientific knowledge, its reproducibility and the accessibility of said knowledge. (…)
This paper attempts to open a horizon for reflection, which makes visible both the potential and the ob-stacles of the current and future practice of academic publication. The working group believes that exploiting this potential essentially depends on the general acceptance and discipline-specific formulation of clear criteria for the recognition of different dig-ital publication formats as attributable and remunerable scientific practice of the type »publishing«. In other words, this should be an independent academic publication effort. (…) »
