Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Student

As a student, having Open Access to publications means that you don't need to cross physical borders (institutional or broader geographical ones) to overcome virtual ones such as paywall any more - neither during a pandemic nor in more normal times. On the other hand, we no longer produce only scholarly outputs that can be placed on a bookshelf. Research outputs now encompass far more than what can be expressed in the 17th century construct of the research paper. Digital artifacts and digital critical editions, installations, video essays, rich multimedia, applications, websites, software, interactive visualizations, know-hows, workflows etc. are first class citizens in an open research culture and scholars and students deserve to be given credit for the many contributions they make above and beyond the articles. In this sense, Open Science or the open research culture is about having the ability to look over our colleagues' shoulders, to better understand, better follow what they’re, doing, the whole process step-by-step.

Using open content

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Where to find open content (content you can freely use)

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Open repositories

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Open-access and free resources can be found in open repositories.

Repositories of research data

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Repositories of art

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Repositories for art works (in general)

Repositories for images

Repositories of music

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Catalogs (collections of databases):

  • The MusoW database brings together openly available music and musicology resources from across the Internet. It serves as a catalogue of databases. You can browse it along different search criteria here: https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/musow/records
  • You can use the Audio, Video search of the ProQuest database
  • See a full list of music-related research data repositories here_ https://www.re3data.org/search?query=music (the search results can be further refined to countries and repository features)

Databases, collections (a small selection of MusoW resources):

Open-upon-request music resources from proprietary providers