The long-term accessibility and reusability of scholarly knowledge is a central concern of Open Science. Research and infrastructure development in this area have so far focused predominantly on how traditional scientific outputs, such as journal articles, monographs, and conference proceedings, can be preserved and made openly available over time. Alternative forms of scholarly communication such as scholarly blogs, by contrast, have received comparatively little attention, even though they have become an established medium for disseminating research and for fostering dialogue within academia and with the wider public. The lack of preservation of scholarly blogs puts them at a risk of information loss, which poses the threat of leaving a gap in the scholarly record. Prior research has examined how blogs are integrated into information infrastructures and what requirements scholarly bloggers have for an information infrastructure that ensures long-term access to their blogs. What is needed now are recommendations for the implementation of these results into the library practice. Based on a convergent mixed-methods design that merges a quantitative analysis of 866 German scholarly blogs, a qualitative interview study with 13 scholarly bloggers, and an open, participatory review process with the scholarly blogging community, we propose a catalog of requirements for the integration of scholarly blogs into information infrastructures in order to ensure their long-term accessibility, reusability and citeability.
翻译:学术知识的长期可获取性和可重用性是开放科学的核心关注点。迄今为止,该领域的研究和基础设施开发主要集中在传统科学成果(如期刊论文、专著和会议论文集)如何随时间推移得以保存和开放获取。相比之下,学术博客等替代性学术交流形式受到的关注相对较少,尽管它们已成为传播研究成果、促进学术界及与公众对话的成熟媒介。学术博客保存的缺失使其面临信息丢失的风险,这可能导致学术记录中留下空白。先前研究探讨了博客如何被整合到信息基础设施中,以及学术博主对保障其博客长期访问的信息基础设施有何需求。当前需要的是将这些研究成果落实到图书馆实践中的建议。基于融合866个德语学术博客定量分析、13位学术博主定性访谈研究以及与学术博客社区进行的开放参与式评审过程的收敛混合方法设计,我们提出了一份关于将学术博客整合到信息基础设施中的需求目录,以确保其长期可访问性、可重用性和可引用性。