The future(s) of open science
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Almost everyone is enthusiastic that 'open science' is the wave of the future. Yet when one looks seriously at the flaws in modern science that the movement proposes to remedy, the prospect for improvement in at least four areas are unimpressive. This suggests that the agenda is effectively to re-engineer science along the lines of platform capitalism, under the misleading banner of opening up science to the masses.
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For some years now, a platformization of online scientific communication can be observed.
“For some years now, however, a platformization of online scientific communication can be observed (Mirowski 2018).”
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Background
- Authors
- Mirowski, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mirowski, Philip
- ORCID
- Mirowski, Philip
- Venue
- Social Studies of Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-04
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 171-203
- ISSN
- 0036-8539 (ISSN-L)
- 0306-3127
- 1460-3659
- OpenAlex
- W2801282011
- Cited by
- 372
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 46 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 62 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 45 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 10
- FWCI
- 47.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Social Studies of Science (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Research, Science, and Academia
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Keywords
- open science, platform capitalism, science policy, open access, future of science
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