OpeningScholarship

The OpeningScholarship project is a practical research initiative that explores ways of better using ICT for scholarly communication and the exchange of knowledge between academics, students and the community. The project is being lead by Eve Gray and Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams within the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation.

A specific focus of the project is on providing access to knowledge generated by scholars to students and the community. Some of the possibilities being explored are open access publishing as a standard practice and reviewing the institution's policy on intellectual property rights from all scholarly outputs.

It is expected that this project will yield a model that will not only drive change within the policies and practices at UCT, but also provide a starting block for other higher education institutions that are interested in doing the same.