Open Science for Arts, Design and Music/Guidelines/Why/Students

The importance of Open Science for students

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.