Towards a Reference Model for Open Access and Knowledge Sharing, Lessons from Systems Research
The Open Access Movement has been striving to grant universal unrestricted access to the knowledge and data outputs of publicly funded research. leveraging the real time, virtually cost free publishing opportunities offered by the internet and the web. However, evidence suggests that in the systems engineering domain open access policies are largely ignored. This paper presents the rationale, methodology and results of an evidence based inquiry that investigates the dichotomy between policy and practice in Open Access (OA) of systems engineering research in the UK, explores entangled dimensions of the problem space from a socio-technical perspective, and issues a set of recommendations, including a reference model outline for knowledge sharing in systems research.
Keywords: open access, reference model, systems research
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paola Di Maio
Paola Di Maio is a research analyst specialising in socio technical systems research, and real time systems. She publishes monographies and high tech briefings for Cutter.com, works as independent expert, standards evaluator and research advisor, is a Research Associate at Institute of Socio-technical Complex Systems in the UK, lectures internationally, and is a Program Committee member of several technical and scientific conferences and journals.
Paola Di Maio
Paola Di Maio is a research analyst specialising in socio technical systems research, and real time systems. She publishes monographies and high tech briefings for Cutter.com, works as independent expert, standards evaluator and research advisor, is a Research Associate at Institute of Socio-technical Complex Systems in the UK, lectures internationally, and is a Program Committee member of several technical and scientific conferences and journals.
