Open Access Week is this month and we’re celebrating by posting a series of blogs about WHY OPEN ACCESS MATTERS [yes, I’m being shouty here]. Last May, the Higher Education Leadership Initiative (HELIOS) invited Erin McKiernan, formerly head of the ScholCommLab, and currently community manager at Open Funders Research Group’s community manager and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. This blog post discusses how we can reward “open” in our college reward systems.
Read more about the ScholCommLab’s research on scholarly assessment and how it is often misaligned with college and university priorities related to serving and engaging with the public.
