Open at the level of (para)text: critical intertextuality and discursive notation as open research practices in the humanities

This article contends that open research practices and principles are embedded in humanities research paradigms in ways that are not currently visible within either the open science-dominated framework of open research or the discourse of open qualitative research that is emerging as its corrective. Focusing on practices around citation (here framed as critical intertextuality) and discursive notation, I explore the ways in which these everyday practices of humanities discourse manifest forms of openness which should be more fully recognised within the discourse of open research. Occurring at a time when efforts to measure, incentivise and mandate open research at institutional, funder, journal and research assessment levels risk delegitimizing forms of enquiry that lie outside existing frameworks, such reconsiderations of unrecognised practices of openness in the humanities are both crucial and timely.