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Open Access, Open Data.
Open Research?
The challenges and opportunities of enabling
public access to publicly funded research

Public access to publicly funded research

Public access to publicly funded research

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Author copy
From work... deposited
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Does it really matter?

“...I worked at a 300-person nonprofit research
institute with a small library. So there I was—a
scientist and a taxpayer—desperate to read the
results of work that I helped pay for...And yet either
I could not get the papers or I had to pay to read
them without knowing if they would be helpful...”
Eisen JA (2008) PLoS Biology 2.0. PLoS Biol 6(2): e48

http://reddit.com/top 10:46 GMT 27/1/09

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Open Access Publishers
http://biology.plosjournals.org
http://www.biomedcentral.com

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Why go to trouble of depositing?

SEC. 218. The Director of the National Institutes of Health
shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH
submit or have submitted for them to the National Library
of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of
their final peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for
publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12
months after the official date of publication: Provided,
That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a
manner consistent with copyright law.
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

UK funders with a publications policy

The Council reaffirms its long-standing view that authors choose
where to place their research for publication. Furthermore, the
Council now also strongly encourages researchers to deposit
research outputs resulting from use of Council facilities or grants
in appropriate open access repositories. Authors should at the
earliest opportunity:
• Personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the deposit of, a copy
of articles published in journals or conference proceedings in an
appropriate e-print repository.
• Wherever possible, personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the
deposit of, the bibliographical metadata relating to such articles,
including a link to the publisher's website, at or around the time
of publication.
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Publications/sci/outputs.aspx

“Within two years it will be
unusual for a serious
research funder not to have
an Open Access policy”
John Wilbanks, Vice President, Science Commons
ESOF Satellite Workshop, July 2008

Papers are easy...
...it’s just money
http://flickr.com/photos/cudmore/4079784/ CC-BY-SA

Data is much,
much, harder...
...capturing annotation,
context, meaning...
http://flickr.com/photos/kubina/941699149/ CC-BY-SA

This is not very useful...

BBSRC expects research data generated as
a result of BBSRC support to be made
available...no later than the release through
publication...in-line with established best
practice in the field...data should also be
retained for a period of ten years after
completion of a research project...
...an application’s credibility will suffer if the
[data sharing]...statement is inappropriate
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/publications/policy/data_sharing_policy.pdf

A paper = a claim (or claims)
The full record that supports that
claim should be available for
detailed examination and critique
“We argue in good faith from shared
evidence to shared conclusions”
Lee Smolin
http://flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/2756494307/

Enough problems already!

“Communicate first,
standardise second.”
Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University

http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/blog_id/5

http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/blog_id/5

If you thought data was
hard, process is much worse

Capture it at source...
...in context
http://flickr.com/photos/jason_burmeister/2053139930/

...rather than wait till here
http://flickr.com/photos/clairity/114084801/

But what’s in it for me?

http://tinyurl.com/friendfeed-mthk-request

http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/bit_id/7735

http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/bit_id/7735

A tender…
http://web2-in-science.wikidot.com/

A paper…
http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Blog_-_PLoS_Bio

A grant proposal
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dhs5x5kr_559gqg6x7&revision=_latest

What about some real science?

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/why-global-regularity-for-navier-stokes-is-hard/

Comments from Greg
Kuperberg, Gil Kalai,
Nets Katz....
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/why-global-regularity-for-navier-stokes-is-hard/

Measuring solubility

http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/Exp026

http://tinyurl.com/ons-challenge-spreadsheet

http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/165/178/24

113 individual measurements
(plus 71 literature values)
14 researchers in four countries
One undergraduate chemistry class
$6000 funding (for prizes and chemicals)

113 individual measurements
(plus 71 literature values)
14 researchers in four countries
One undergraduate chemistry class
$6000 funding (for prizes and chemicals)
Four months

Agile collaboration
The right person for each job

Agile collaboration
The right person for each job
Even if you don’t know who
that is yet

…efficiency...
...value for money...
...return on investment
http://flickr.com/photos/luismimunoznajar/2093185804/

STFC can follow...

...or lead

Realistically, the current
mainstream response to these
ideas looks like…

http://flickr.com/photos/zanotti/314391903/

A B.H.A.G.
STFC as a world leader in making
research outputs available

1. Put a high value on the data we fund
2. Require data sharing statements to help
raise awareness among users
3. Lead the building of an international
data and process sharing infrastructure
4. Support OA for in house publications
5. Set high standards of methodological
description for published in house research

Have a policy
Mean it
Coordinate with other
research funders

In the last five years...?
http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/

...in the past 24 hours?

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