Post-Academic Science

Conceptualized by David Kellog as the emerging third stage of scientific research.

Source: Toward a Post-Academic Science Policy, by David Kellogg, International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (Special Issue, Access to Knowledge), Autumn 2006.

Description

First phase:

Academic science, based on these norms: Communalist; Universal; Disinterested; Original; Skeptical

Second phase:

Industrial science, based on these norms: Proprietary; Local; Authoritarian; Commissioned; Expert

Third phase:

Post-academic science now fits neither the academic nor the industrial model.

(I): post-academic science “multiplies the sites of knowledge production

Excerpt: (II) Post-Academic Science Makes Scientific Knowledge more Open to Public Scrutiny

"The same technologies that make virtual labs and corporations possible also make scientific information more widely distributed and disseminated. Take the scientific journal article itself, which in academic science publishing was confined to the boundaries of the IMRAD [Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion] format. In recent years, scientific journals have started to publish complete data sets accompanying print publication on the web; thus, print articles grow smaller even as the amount of associated available information becomes (as a practical matter) unlimited. Some long-running print journals which have established an internet presence are making such “supplemental materials” a requirement of publication, and journals based entirely on the web practice such openness as a matter of course.[ref 16] At least in theory, this means that both the public and fellow scientists are able to examine claims made in published papers more closely."

More Information

The above is cited from http://tillje.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/open-access-science-and-science-policy/