One interesting question is of course to what extent open scholarship is possible or desirable. Open scholarship has been defined as a commitment to create knowledge and share it as widely as possible for the benefit of all. It contains a set of principles, among which are open access to publicly funded scientific research outputs (see eg, http://www.openscholarship.org). In addition to open access, the Enabling Open Scholarship organisation draws attention to the role of “Associated developments in scholarly communication [which] centre around other new informal means of dissemination and communication, the so-called Web 2.0 technologies, changes in peer review systems, the blurring of boundaries between articles and datasets, and the increasing recognition of new and different forms of output as legitimate products of the research effort” (Enabling Open Scholarship, 2012). Conole (2010) describes the benefits of learning and researching in an open world, outlining how open access and Web 2.0 practices can come together. Of course, changes in academic practice towards working in an open fashion are not inevitable. However, a juncture has been reached where changes in technology have the potential to impact academic practice in this interesting way.