Laying out the Principles of Open Science

laying out the principles of open science (an abbreviated version) kaitlin thaney program manager, science commons open science@PSB 5 january 2009 This presentation is licensed under the CreativeCommons-Attribution-3.0 license.

most of the useful knowledge is inaccessible. most of the useful knowledge is in the wrong technology. we don’t have enough people working on it.

science commons principles of open science barcelona, spain july 2008

(1) open access to literature from funded research

it all starts with the scholarly digital content: journals and databases

transition from “paper metaphor”

thinking of “papers” as containers of knowledge

“papers” IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

“networked knowledge” IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

“ By open access to the literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting users to read, download, copy, distribute. print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without ﬁnancial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Image from the Public Library of Science, licensed to the public, under CC-BY-3.0

“The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to properly acknowledged and cited.”

legal implementation

(2) access to research tools from funded research

examples: lab mice, cell lines, DNA ... the physical materials

research materials represent an incredible investment in tacit knowledge

the web revolutionized search, commerce, collaboration

ofﬁce supplies for science

there are no ofﬁce superstores for science

no internet marketplaces for science

everyone has to pre-authorize through institutions

the commons allows for “some rights reserved” options to share

solves the access problem via contract (standardized material transfer agreements, or MTAs)

(3) put data from funded research in the public domain

ensures ability to freely distribute, copy, reformat, and integrate data from research into new research ... without legal barriers citation, attribution via norms

creates legal zones of certainty

a protocol, not a license

(4) invest in open cyberinfrastructure

data without structure and annotation is a lost opportunity. data should ﬂow in an open, public, and extensible infrastructure support recombination and reconﬁguration into computer models, queryable by search engine treated as public good

this is only the beginning of the conversation

for more information, visit http://sciencecommons.org/resources/ readingroom/principles-for-open-science/

thank you we’d love to hear from you kaitlin@creativecommons.org http://sciencecommons.org

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