2022 - Leo S. Olschki
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Opening up the History of Science : a Perspective from Centaurus
P. 49-66
- Centaurus was founded in 1950 and has remained so far one of the major generalist journals devoted to the study of the history of science. Since 2007, it has been the official journal of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), which in 2022 became its co-owner. In the last decade, Centaurus' mission has increasingly been aligned with the ESHS's purpose to promote cooperation in the field of the history of science understood in the broadest sense, in and beyond Europe. As a result of these efforts, Centaurus became a ‘diamond' Open Access journal, in which authors can publish without any cost and readers can access all the content for free. Open Access will come with new benefits and new responsibilities, especially for a small humanities field such as the history of science. Transitioning to Open Access is a big challenge and a remarkable change for a journal.
- The first part of this article discusses recent developments in Open Access within their social, economic and political context, taking Centaurus as a case-study. However, Open Access is only the start of a more thorough transition to Open Science practices. The second part of this text focuses on Open-Peer Review, a new process aimed at overcoming the well-known drawbacks of blind peer-review, to open up a discussion about its advantages and disadvantages for the history of science. [Publisher's text]
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DOI: 10.1400/289108
ISSN: 2038-6265
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In this issue
- A Portolan Chart for an Expanding History of Science
- Disciplinary Identity and Isis
- View from the Bibliographer's Desk : Exploring Two-Decades of Citations in the Discipline of History of Science
- Opening up the History of Science : a Perspective from Centaurus
- Developments in the History of Science as seen from the Vantage Point of the Journal Early Science and Medicine
- History of Science from a Visual and Material Perspective : Nuncius's Viewpoint
- History of Biology : Current Approaches and Future Trends
- The Emerging Quest for Relevance in the History of Medicine and Science
- The Historiography of the "Behavioral Science" in the 21st Century
- Knowledge in Action : Experimenting in History and in Science
- Knowledge, Performance, Conservation : How Art and Science Embrace Technology
- History of Ignorance : a 21st Century Project
- History of Science and History of the Earth in the Anthropocene
- Gender Perspectives and New Narratives
- History of Science and Political History : Intersections, Differences, Traditions
- A Diplomacy Turn? : Writing the History of Science in the Context of International Relations
- Towards a Computational History of Science : Limitations and Perspectives of an Emerging Research Approach
- In Memory of Paolo Brenni (1954-2021)
- Abstracts