Scott Edmunds presentation on Hong Kong Open Access & GigaScience for the Creative Commons Hong Kong 10th Anniversary day, 8th December 2018

1. Hong Kong: an Open Access perspective
Scott Edmunds
Creative Commons HK @10
http://web.archive.org/web/20131127073400/http://openaccess.hk/about.html

2. In the rest of the world (inc China) OA is coming…
BOA definition = CC-BY (no NC/ND clauses).

3. Meanwhile in Hong Kong…
http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/344.html
• 4 (weak) uni policies in ROARmap
• 20 OA journals in DOAJ
• 704 publications in Wizdom.ai

4. One open access example in HK
http://gigasciencejournal.com/
Launched July 2012. Links papers to data & software incentivising release.

5. Rewarding open data
Integrated GigaDB repository – 35TB of CC0 data in Tai Po. Linked to papers via DOIs.

6. Why CC? Maximises reuse
http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-goes-cc4-a-handy-cut-out-and-keep-guide-to-our-licenses/

7. Why CC? Seeing the benefits
• Maximising reuse and credit (two papers with >1000 citations)
• Content used as teaching materials (>100,000 accesses)
• Content used in media and wikipedia
• Awards: PROSE Award for Innovation in Journal Publishing
Results in traditional forms of prestige (highest ranked journal in
HK, 2nd highest life science research journal in China)

8. Rice 3K project
• 3,000 rice genomes
for rice breeders
• 13.4TB CC0 data
• Quadrupled public
data
• Data published 4
years before
analysis published
Why CC? Open Data Saves Lives

9. Why CC? Open Data Saves Lives
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/Report/

10. https://osf.io/cgpzb/
Open Science (Open Access & Open
Data) survey of Hong Kong
In press…

11. The cost to Hong Kong of not doing this?
• Estimates lack of citation impact not being OA = 50% ($8.75B?)2
• How much is the HK taxpayer losing through missing out on potential
collaborations, wider engagement & unrepeatable work?
HK UCG grant budget = $17.5 Billion HKD/yr (4% of Gov spending)
Taking lowest reported reproducibility rates (11%) = >$15 billion wasted1
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1. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/483531a.html
2. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/research-australia.doc