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International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) 2017 theme is Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices. The Conference focuses on the diverse perspectives about Open Science, one of the most widely discussed topics in research communications today. 

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Despite the common claims that Open Science improves transparency and accountability throughout the research life cycle while democratizing the knowledge production process, empirical research and conceptual validation of these ideas has been limited. 

In addition, there is a growing tendency to conceptualise Open Science as a set of conditions waiting to be met, without regard for regional differences, including cultural and historical contexts of knowledge production.

Intended to generate discussion and debate on the potential and limitations of openness, the proceedings of Elpub 2017:

• address the current challenges and opportunities in the ecosystem of Open Science, and
• explore how to move forward in developing an inclusive system that will work for a much broader range of participants.

The proceedings will be of interest to all those concerned with electronic publishing, and Open Science in particular.

Paper (open access)	Author(s)
Open Science and Accelerating Discovery in Rare and Neglected Diseases	Rachel J. Harding
Openness in Scholarship: A Return to Core Values?	Cameron Neylon
Framing a Situated and Inclusive Open Science: Emerging Lessons from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network	Rebecca Hillyer, Alejandro Posada, Denisse Albornoz, Leslie Chan, Angela Okune
Claims About Benefits of Open Access to Society (Beyond Academia)	ElHassan ElSabry
Open Access Policy and Funding in Cyprus University of Technology a Case Study	Marios Zervas, Petros Artemi, Stamatios Giannoulakis
OpenAIRE: Supporting the H2020 Open Access Mandate	Vasiliki (Sylvia) V. Koukounidou
New Toolkits on the Block: Peer Review Alternatives in Scholarly Communication	Birgit Schmidt, Edit Görögh
Imparting Knowledge in Humanities. About Some Practices of Scientific Blogging on Hypothèses	Ingrid Mayeur
Grey Literature Publishing in Public Policy: Production and Management, Costs and Benefits	Amanda Lawrence
Arxiv-Based Commenting Resources By and For Astrophysicists and Physicists: An Initial Survey	Monica Marra
The Transition to Open Access: The State of the Market, Offsetting Deals, and a Demonstrated Model for Fair Open Access with the Open Library of Humanities	Martin Paul Eve, Saskia C.J. de Vries, Johan Rooryck
Rethinking Openness: Challenges and New Approaches to Open Scholarly Journals	Andre Luiz Appel, Maria Lucia Maciel, Sarita Albagli
Alternative Metrics for the Evaluation of Scholarly Activities: An Analysis of Articles Authored by Greek Researchers	Aspasia Togia, Eleftheria Koseoglou, Sofia Zapounidou
Benefits of Open Science: An Analytical Framework Illustrated with Case Study Evidence from Argentina	Valeria Arza, Mariano Fressoli
Inventory of Research Data Management Services in France	Violaine Rebouillat
Increasing Papers' Discoverability with Precise Semantic Labeling: The sci.AI Platform	Roman Gurinovich, Alexander Pashuk, Yuriy Petrovskiy, Alex Dmitrievskij, Oleg Kuryan, Alexei Scerbacov, Antonia Tiggre, Elena Moroz, Yuri Nikolsky
Living Digital Ecosystems for Data Preservation: An Austrian Use Case Towards the European Open Science Cloud	Raman Ganguly, Paolo Budroni, Barbara Sánchez Solís
Increasing the Discovery and Use of Non-Patent Literature (NPL): Scientific Publications in Patent Examination	Fernando Loizides, Barrou Diallo, Andrew Pollard, Aekaterini Mavri
Measurement of Open Access as an Infrastructural Challenge: The Case of Finland	Pekka Olsbo
The Transformation of the Ktisis Repository into a Current Research Information System (CRIS)	Alexia Ntini-Kounoudes, Marios Zervas
Web Technologies: A Survey of Their Applicability to Metadata Aggregation in Cultural Heritage	Nuno Freire, Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac, Glen Robson, John Brooks Howard
Governing Knowledge Commons: Applications of an Open Knowledge Broker in Caribbean Disaster Management	Maurice McNaughton, Lila Rao
What Is at Stake? Public Participation and the Co-Production of Open Scientific Knowledge	Hugo Ferpozzi
The University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD) Science Shop “Xam-Xamu Niep Ngir Niep” (Knowledge of All for All)	Dieyi Diouf

Source: IOS Press Ebooks