2022-03-31
The final event of the ON-MERRIT project, “Ensuring Equity in Open Science”, took place on 22 March 2022 and represented a fantastic occasion to confront on the project’s results with expert keynote speakers and many interested attendees.
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2022-02-04
Register now for ON-MERRIT’s final event, to be held online on March 22, 2022, 13.00-17.00 CET
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2022-01-20
Open Science for the few is just the extension of privilege. Equity is a key aim of Open Science, but could current Open Science policies actually worsen existing inequalities? Open Science needs resources (funding, time, knowledge, skills), and the traditionally advantaged people usually have more of them. Will their privilege mean that they are the ones to benefit most? How can we avoid the dynamic of the rich getting richer, known as the Matthew effect? The EC-funded project ON-MERRIT (on-merrit.eu) aims at contributing to an equitable scientific system that rewards researchers based on merit. For this purpose, it investigates the impact of Open Science practices using scientometric, sociological and other approaches.
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2022-01-17
by Thomas Klebel, Nancy Pontika, Tony Ross-Hellauer
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2021-12-21
Open Science and Responsible Research and Inovation (RRI) hold the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory, understandable, accessible, and re-usable for large audiences.
However, making processes open will not per se drive wide re-use or participation unless also accompanied by the capacity (in terms of knowledge, skills, financial resources, technological readiness and motivation) to do so. These capacities vary considerably across regions, institutions and demographics. Those advantaged by such factors will remain potentially privileged, putting Open Science and RRI’s agendas of inclusivity at risk of propagating conditions of “cumulative advantage”.
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2021-12-20
by Stefan Reichmann, Nicki Lisa Cole, Antónia Correia, Eloy Rodrigues, Bernhard Wieser, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Pedro Príncipe
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2021-12-16
by Angela Fessl, Katharina Maitz, Najko Jahn
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2021-12-10
by Thomas Klebel, Nancy Pontika, Antonia Correia, David Pride, Petr Knoth, Tony Ross-Hellauer
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2021-07-19
ON-MERRIT (Observing and Negating Matthew Effects in Responsible Research & Innovation Transition) aims at contributing to an equitable scientific system that rewards researchers based on merit. For this purpose, it investigates the impact of open science practices in academia, industry, and policy.
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2021-07-07
The fourth and last webinar of this series, with the participation of Dasapta Erwin Irawan as keynote speaker, discussed the challenges of Open Science in the Global South and the reasons why some research-related issues are not just local, but have a wider impact.
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2021-06-11
The second webinar of this series, with the participation of Paola Chiara Masuzzo as keynote speaker, discussed the idea of Open Science as a real driver for change.
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2021-06-10
Although the webinar didn’t take place as scheduled, Lizzie Gadd, the speaker of our webinar on Bibliometrics, the “Matthew Effect and diversity in academia” recorded a video with her presentation.
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2021-05-18
On May 18, 2021 ON-MERRIT kicked off the series of webinars with the first one titled “Matthew Effects in Science”, with Tony Ross-Hellauer (KNOW Center), Bernhard Wieser and Stefan Reichmann (TU Graz).
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2021-04-20
ON-MERRIT is pleased to announce its brand new series of virtual appointments!
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2021-03-31
ON-MERRIT just launched its survey to develop deeper insights into the participation of researchers in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science training.
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2021-01-20
ON-MERRIT has launched a survey directed at SMEs and the industry to understand the usage of freely available scientific resources.
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2020-10-23
Originally published on October 23rd, 2020 on the LSE Blog.
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2020-10-06
Today, ON-MERRIT took part in the RefResh 2020 workshop presenting the project’s main research topic, the Matthew Effect in Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation.
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2020-08-25
ON-MERRIT took part in the EASST/4S 2020 conference titled “Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds”.
EASST is the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, where 4S is the Society for Social Studies of Science. Like many other events in 2020, the conference happened virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020-07-21
Open Science for the few is just the extension of privilege. Equity is a key aim of open science, but could Open Science policies actually worsen existing inequalities?
Open Science needs resources (funding, time, knowledge, skills), and the traditionally advantaged people usually have more of them. Will their privilege mean that they are the ones to benefit most? How can we avoid the dynamic of the rich getting richer, known as the Matthew effect?
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2020-07-14
ON-MERRIT is glad to introduce the members of its recently established Advisory Board. The Board is composed of high-level external stakeholders with a demonstrated interest in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science, including independent experts as well as representatives of key organisations.
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2020-03-12
Due to precautionary measures in regard to the coronavirus, the second day of this year’s Open Science Conference got canceled. Luckily, the panellists Johanna Havemann, Anne-Floor Scholvinck, Daniel Spichtinger and August Wierling agreed to submit their opening statements as a blog post for ZBW MediaTalk.
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2019-12-16
Due to the current situation with the global Coronavirus pandemic and the official regulations passed by the Austrian Government we regret to inform you that the conference, which was planned to be held from May 4th to 6th, 2020, has been postponed.
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2019-11-04
From 4-5 of November 2019, the ON-MERRIT partners came together in Graz to kick of the 2,5 year project, coordinated by the Know-Center GmbH.To make sure we’re on track and working together from the beginning, all partners presented their ideas on how to best tackle our research questions. The whole team worked on coordinating the plans for the different tasks, refining ON-MERRIT’s priorities, and identifying ways to support each other. The kick-off meeting was not only very productive, but we also really enjoyed working together. Full of enthusiasm, we even skipped a restaurant visit at lunch-time. Still, the delicious dinner at the restaurant the Steirer in Graz more than made up for this. Looks like there is nothing in the way for ON-MERRIT to become a real success!
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