Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland.
F1000Res. 2020 Oct 22;9:1265. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.26545.1. eCollection 2020.
This article presents a vision for a scholarly communication research infrastructure for social sciences and humanities (SSH). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pressing need to access research outputs without the traditional economic and temporal barriers. This article explores the current scholarly communication landscape, assessing the reasons for the slower uptake of open access in SSH research. The authors discuss such frontiers as commercial interests, sources of academic prestige and discipline-specific genres. This article defines and discusses the key areas in which a research infrastructure can play a vital role in making open scholarly communication a reality in SSH: (1) providing a federated and easy access to scattered SSH outputs; (2) supporting publication and dissemination of discipline-specific genres (e.g. monographs, critical editions); (3) providing help with evaluation and quality assurance practices in SSH; (4) enabling scholarly work in national languages, which is significant for local communities; (5) being governed by researchers and for researchers as a crucial factor for productive, useful and accessible services; (6) lastly, considering the needs of other stakeholders involved in scholarly communication, such as publishers, libraries, media, non-profit organisations, and companies. They conclude that a scholarly-driven, inclusive, dedicated infrastructure for the European Research Area is needed in order to advance open science in SSH and to address the issues tackled by SSH researchers at a structural and systemic level.
本文为社会科学和人文学科（SSH）的学术交流研究基础设施提出了一个愿景。COVID-19 大流行凸显了人们迫切需要在没有传统经济和时间障碍的情况下获取研究成果。本文探讨了当前的学术交流格局，评估了 SSH 研究中开放获取采用速度较慢的原因。作者讨论了商业利益、学术声望的来源以及特定学科体裁等前沿问题。本文定义并讨论了研究基础设施可以在以下关键领域发挥重要作用，使 SSH 中的开放学术交流成为现实：（1）提供分散的 SSH 输出的联合和便捷访问；（2）支持特定学科体裁的出版和传播（例如专著、重要版本）；（3）为 SSH 中的评估和质量保证实践提供帮助；（4）使以国家语言进行的学术工作成为可能，这对当地社区意义重大；（5）由研究人员管理并为研究人员服务，这是实现富有成效、有用和可访问服务的关键因素；（6）最后，考虑到出版商、图书馆、媒体、非营利组织和公司等参与学术交流的其他利益相关者的需求。他们的结论是，需要一个由学者驱动、包容、专用的欧洲研究区基础设施，以推进 SSH 中的开放科学，并在结构和系统层面上解决 SSH 研究人员面临的问题。
