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What is Open Science and Open Research

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Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
often treated as synonyms, Open Science is a movement that promotes open access to content by digital means, the use of free software / open source applications to conduct research and the free availability of data sets (open data) used in this research. Besides philosophical considerations, many authors have stated evidence of better performance and more benefits for researchers being ‘open’. The PRP is fully in line with this way of thinking, as it promotes maximum transparency and sharing
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The Personal Research Portal
Ismael Peña-López (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch026
Abstract
The author of this chapter proposes the concept of the Personal Research Portal (PRP) – a mesh of social software applications to manage knowledge acquisition and diffusion – as a means to create a digital identity for the researcher, an online public notebook and personal repository, and a virtual network of colleagues working in the same field. Complementary to formal publishing or taking part in events, and based on the concept of the e-portfolio, the PRP is a knowledge management system that enhances reading, storing and creating at both the private and public levels. Relying heavily on Web 2.0 applications easy to use, freely available – the PRP automatically implies a public exposure and a digital presence that enables conversations and network weaving without time and space boundaries.
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