{"id":201,"date":"2016-11-28T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-11-26T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T13:32:20","slug":"on-the-importance-of-openness-in-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/on-the-importance-of-openness-in-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of openness in scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently looking something up in Evernote, and I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2013\/07\/23\/the-historians-proposed-embargo-on-dissertations\/\">a post by Eric Rauchway<\/a> on Crooked Timber from July 2013. The post concerns the American Historical Association\/s <strong><em>proposed<\/em><\/strong> recommendation for an embargo on dissertations. The AHA adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/jobs-and-professional-development\/statements-and-standards-of-the-profession\/statement-on-policies-regarding-the-option-to-embargo-completed-history-phd-dissertations\">Statement on Policies Regarding the Option to Embargo Completed PhD Dissertations<\/a> on 19 July 2013. It begins<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Historical Association strongly encourages graduate programs and university libraries to adopt a policy that allows the embargoing of completed history PhD dissertations in digital form for as many as six years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a lot of debate about the wisdom of dissertation embargoes before and after the statement was announced. Rauchway finished his post with a comment that all of us should think about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we find ourselves trying to make scholarship less readily available \u2013 however good our intentions \u2013 we should probably ask ourselves if we can solve our problems some other way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently looking something up in Evernote, and I ran across a post by Eric Rauchway on Crooked Timber from July 2013. The post concerns the American Historical Association\/s&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/on-the-importance-of-openness-in-scholarship\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}