The ARCS (Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship) have launched a new ‘open scholarship’ competition. The aim is simple: describe your ‘open science story’, and you could win $1000! In particular, the competition is aimed at finding success stories – how has practicing any form of open science helped you advance or enhance your career in some way?
All submissions will be published and archived with The Winnower, an open access platform, and assigned a DOI for free so it will become citeable.
To submit your open success story, simply click HERE. Use ARCS2015 as a keyword, so your submission is included in the project collection and considered for a prize. Articles must be submitted before October 5th to be considered for a prize.
Your 750 – 1,000 word submission should include:
- A description of your open science or scholarship activities.
- An explanation of how those activities positively affected your career, science, or scholarship.
- Evidence of the the positive impacts you described.
Full details can be found here.
I’ve submitted my story to get things, rolling, and you can find the full version here. Preview:
It never really occurred to me not to be open. From the moment I started my PhD, I made a promise to myself that everything I did would be open and transparent. By this, I don’t just mean access to published papers – I wanted the data, and the information that I was generating to be freely available, and understandable to everyone. Apparently, this makes you a ‘radical’, but to me the alternatives just didn’t appeal. I didn’t see the sense in paywalls, in not sharing, in doing things for any reason but the benefit of the commons.
Juan Pablo Alperin has also submitted his story, which you can find in full here.
Good luck!
