Proprietary and closed infrastructures limit both research accessibility and reuse, preventing other tools from building on top of their software, data, and content; an example is Google Scholar. Instead, open infrastructures can help people move beyond this issue and create a community-driven and community-owned ecosystem.

A presentation by Peter Kraker and Maxi Schramm.

From the same author, also available the Open Knowledge maps and his campaign #DontLeaveittoGoogle.

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