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Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access

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posted on 2022-08-29, 02:53 authored by Catherine WilsonCatherine Wilson, CK Huang, L Montgomery, C Neylon, RN Handcock, A Ozaygen, A Roelofs
In this article, we ask whether dominant narratives of gender and performance within academic institutions are masking stories that may be both more complex and potentially more hopeful than those which are often told using publication-related data. Influenced by world university rankings, institutions emphasise so-called ‘excellent’ research practices: publish in ‘high impact’, elite subscription journals indexed by the commercial bibliographic databases that inform the various ranking systems. In particular, we ask whether data relating to institutional demographics and open access publications could support a different story about the roles that women are playing as pioneers and practitioners of open scholarship. We review gender bias in scholarly publications and discuss examples of open access research publications that highlight a positive advantage for women. Using analysis of workforce demographics and open research data from our Open Knowledge Initiative project, we explore relationships and correlations between academic gender and open access research output from universities in Australia and the United Kingdom. This opens a conversation about different possibilities and models for exploring research output by gender and changing the dominant narrative of deficit in academic publishing.

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Wilson, K., Huang, C. K., Montgomery, L., Neylon, C., Handcock, R. N., Ozaygen, A. & Roelofs, A. (2022). Changing the Academic Gender Narrative through Open Access. Publications, 10(3), 22-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications10030022

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Publications

Volume

10

Issue

3

Publication date

2022-09-01

Pagination

22-22

Publisher

MDPI AG

Publication status

Accepted

Online publication date

2022-07-04

ISSN

2304-6775

eISSN

2304-6775

Language

en

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