Ethics, Privacy and Trust in Open Access – Freebook
The landscape of open access is constantly evolving, bringing both opportunities and challenges for librarians.
Librarians must navigate ethical considerations, ensure the integrity of digital records, and adapt metadata practices to maintain trust in open access.
This free collection explores important issues in open access, including:
Privacy concerns
Epistemic boundaries
Authentication of digital materials
By addressing these critical topics, librarians can better support researchers, institutions, and the broader academic community in fostering a fair and transparent system for sharing knowledge.
Each of the four chapters in this freebook offers information that will help you develop your understanding of the challenges in ethics, privacy and trust in open access.
Taken from recent publications in the field, the chapters are:
Trust in Our Institutions, Does it Affect Digital Strategy? from Open Data for Everybody by digital activist Nathan Coyle.
Epistemic Openness and Knowledge-Based Oppression, from Achieving Global Open Access by Stephen Pinfield, University of Sheffield, UK.
Selling Our Soul (For Total Control) by Toby Burrows, University of Western Australia, Deb Verhoeven, University of Alberta, and Mike Jones, University of Tasmania from The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities.
User Perceptions of Born-Digital Authenticity by Jenny Bunn, The National Archives from Trust and Records in an Open Environment.