How to make your medieval Research more visible with Open Scholarship Methods and Tools: Workshop at Carmen Annual Meeting Tampere University (28.08.2018)

How To Make Your Medieval Research More Visible With Open Scholarship Methods and Tools, Dr. Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) / PARTHENOS), 60 min Workshop at Tampere University (Finland) on the occasion of the Carmen (The Worldwide Medieval Network) Annual Meeting 2018

Academic publishing, scholarly communication, and requirements for good academic practices are changing. Open Access to scientific publications and research data is supported by a growing number of institutions and becomes increasingly a requirement of research funders. The communication of scientific results happens more and more in social networks and blogs. While these changing patterns of scholarly communication can positively impact their research dissemination, enhance the number of citations, not at least to prove the relevance of medieval studies against the backdrop of dwindling research budgets, humanities researchers are comparatively reluctant to embrace open scholarly practices.   

This workshop is targeted to all medievalists who wish to increase the visibility of their research and find out more about the opportunities of Open Science and Open Scholarship methods and tools. There will be an overview of practical solutions already existing, as well as space to discuss doubts and needs (e.g. more open access for books, more subject specific open access journals or repositories), how to overcome them and to connect with like-minded researchers to form new iniatives. The summarized (anonymous) results of this workshop will be reported back to relevant infrastructures and made public for funders e.g. in a blogpost, project deliverable etc.

Content:

-modes of open scientific research practices and scholarly communication

-showcase benefits

-doubts, reservations, barriers

-presentation of available services

-discussion of needs, next steps