Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.

1. FORCE2019
Research Communications, e-Scholarship,
Open Science, Open Access
Edinburgh, Oct 15-17, 2019

2. Opening
Keynote
Lesley McAra,
Director,
University of
Edinburgh
The academic’s role is shifting from expert to co-creator
Communications for complex research is moving from
plain technical text to multi-format, from images to stories
and even performance
Five key disruptors in comms are:
the ‘killer graph,’ the ‘killer image,’
the ‘killer story,’ a deep case study,
a performance (stand up, cabaret,
festivals, video e.g.
http://brokentalkers.ie/portfolio/th
e-examination/)
(UCD example of
genuine co-production
between researcher and
stakeholders in new
mode of dissemination.
Co-production process
yields data, rather than
final output. Evidence/
methodology yield valid
research-based stories)

3. Perpetual Access
Machines:
Archiving web-
published
scholarship at scale
Web Archiving & Data
Services, Internet Archive
• Internet Archive’s large-scale project to build as complete a
collection as possible of scholarly outputs published on the web
(also to improve discoverability and accessibility of scholarly works
archived as part of these global web harvests).
• Project involved: targeted archiving of known OA publications
(especially at-risk “long tail” publications); extraction and
augmentation of bibliographic metadata and full text; integration
and preservation of related identifier, registry, and aggregation
services and datastores; partnerships with affiliated initiatives and
joint service developments; and creation of new tools and machine
learning approaches for identifying archived scholarly work in
existing digital and web collections.
• The project also identified and archived associated research outputs
such as blogs, datasets, code repositories and other secondary
research objects. The beta API and public interface "fatcat” can be
found at https://fatcat.wiki/.
• Full lecture available here

4. Transparent
Peer Review,
by Publons
Increasing demand for journals to adopt more open peer review models, but
so far unable to do this at scale
Collaboration between Publons, ScholarOne and Wiley to create scalable
Transparent Peer Review workflow, enabling publication of an article’s
complete peer review process (readers can access a comprehensive peer
review history including reviewer reports, editor decision letters and authors’
responses)
Peer review content is organized by revision rounds with each element
assigned its own DOI, making all content citable
Find full presentation and webinar here

5. Building…then
crossing bridges
in support of
Open Research
St Andrews integrates
Scholarly Comms with
Research & Innovation
• Scholarly Communications team moved out of the library
and became embedded in Research and Innovation
Services
• Digital Research teams (Open Access, Research Data
Management, Digital Humanities, Research Computing)
worked with research office to find joint approach to
build relationships and provide support to researchers
• LEAN project with cross-campus team to find process
improvements, impact on activities and communications
• Main benefits of combining teams were: ability to
communicate open research messages with a strong
policy context; ability to facilitate the required cultural
change in researcher behaviour; greatly increased
deposits and compliance

6. Building…then crossing bridges in support of Open Research
St Andrews integrates Scholarly Comms with Research & Innovation
• St Andrews Library engaged with the university’s LEAN change management
consultancy service to introduce a streamlined Open Access process to
support researchers and the university in meeting REF compliance.
• The LEAN project yielded key enhancements in: Communications/Advocacy
(resulting in reduction in email inquiries but significant increase in deposits
into the research information system (Pure)); APC transactions; and Open
Access compliance
• See full case study of the project here
The details of St Andrew’s full process in bridging the gap between the university’s
library-based Digital Research Services and its Research and Innovation services,
and the outcomes of that process, are available in the full presentation here.

7. An institutional
perspective to
rescue scholarly
orphans
Data Archiving & Networked Services/
Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Scholars across disciplines and throughout the research
life cycle are using a wide variety of scholarly
productivity portals and platforms on the web - such as
Slideshare, GitHub, figshare, Publons etc – but they are
not systematically archived on web (approx 75% not
archived) and searches return zero mementoes
• Scholarly Orphans Project trying to address this (NB.
Non STEM pubs), by devising an institutional pipeline to
track, capture, and archive scholarly artefacts
• Memento Tracer framework plays crucial role in
creating high-fidelity Mementos of artefacts
• Institution-driven paradigm (cf. LOCKSS)
• Prototype of the pipeline available at:
https://myresearch.institute/
• Opportunity to explore connectivity and integration of
Scholarly platforms to social
• Full presentation available here and here

8. Responsible metrics:
the state of the art
By Elizabeth Gadd,
Loughborough University
See full presentation here:
https://zenodo.org/record/3507812#.XbmYsuf7Q6U
“Culture eats strategy for
breakfast”

9. Open Scholarship
case studies at the
University of
Oxford
• Oxford embraced open scholarship in its
strategic aims (referenced Open Science
Task Force at University of Utrecht and
Open Science By Design from the National
Academy of Sciences)
• Oxford’s Bodleian Library is a part of
‘Reproducible Research Oxford Group’, and
through this held a workshop particularly
targeting Early Stage Researchers to find
out how to support them
• They gained a remit to produce case
studies representative of each of the four
academic divisions looking at approaches
to openness and working in an open
scholarship environment

10. Open
Scholarship
case studies
at the
University of
Oxford
CASE STUDY 1: I-Sicily (Inscriptions of Sicily, humanities project)
Benefits include: collaborations, more visibility
Challenges: lack of understanding of OA, OA not general practice
CASE STUDY 2: Peer Community In Ecology
(Peer review which is citable and can have a DOI)
Benefits: promotion, transparency, reduce numbers of peer review,
scientific repeatability
CASE STUDY 3: PERL (Psychopharmacology & Emotion Research
Laboratory) – project with an ‘Open mindset’
Benefits: become leaders in sharing data with research community,
patients and general public; and leaders in Public Engagement
CASE STUDY 5: Cultures of Knowledge/EMLO
(Linked data from correspondence)
Part of COST Action (European Cooperation in Science and
Technology), platform hosted by Oxford
See full presentation at: https://zenodo.org/record/3507283#.XbmdNuf7Q6U

11. Open Citations
How open do we
want them?
• Citation databases play a key role in discovery and
assessment but currently lack community governance
and often have restricted access
• Over half of all articles referenced in Crossref now have
openly available citations thanks to the I4OC initiative,
enabling the citations to be used by anyone for any
purpose.
• Use of Open Citations can increase the coverage and
availability of citations
• For details and stats from citations platforms and
scholarly associations OpenCitations, Crossref, AGU,
COAR and Lens.org, see the presentation here
• Explore OpenCitations/CROCI, AGU in the press, COAR,
and Lens.org for perspectives from the panel discussion.
• Notes from discussion below

12. Using open competitions to drive
innovation and collaboration
By SAGE Publishing
• The Coleridge Initiative (https://coleridgeinitiative.org/) is aiming to
make data more usable and available in the social sciences, by
connecting research papers to the underlying data and creating
infrastructure that provides access to data in computational
environments via project Jupyter.
• This talk looked at one approach taken by the initiative - using a
competition (https://coleridgeinitiative.org/richcontextcompetition)
in order to encourage teams to help solve one of the core problems,
i.e. building machine learning models that identify references to data
sets with no standard identifiers.
• See full presentation here

13. Raising the Profile of Research Software
Through Collaboration
• Netherlands eScience Centre present the case for promoting
research software, which is fundamental to contemporary
research yet is not adequately recognised in the scholarly record
through citation.
• Read their recommendations for giving research software an
equal footing to research data and publications at the policy level
• See their presentation to the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, to highlight the importance of research
software in contemporary research and its relationship to
research data, open science, and reproducibility in research
• The full presentation at FORCE2019 is here

14. #FORCE2019
See the complete programme here
See all available presentations here