1.
Publishing books and data
Brian Hole
London Book Fair, 15 April 2013
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2.
The Social Contract
of Science
• Dissemination
• Validation
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Researchers
• Publishers
• Libraries, repositories…
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4.
OA eBooks
• Many disciplines (e.g. Humanities) are yet to
fully benefit from electronic OA publishing
because half of their output is in book form
• Many scholarly monographs are overpriced
and poorly distributed
• “At this price, people will only read the
reviews”
• Research libraries are increasingly looking to
save money
• One e copy for multiple students
• No shelf space requirements
• No lending administration overhead
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5.
Metajournals as incentives
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6.
Data journals
• Provide a way of finding data scattered in
many siloed locations
• Are a low-barrier, familiar way to
incentivise data sharing
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7.
What is a data paper?
A data paper…
• … describes the methodology with which
a dataset was created.
• … describes the dataset itself.
• … details the reuse potential of the data.
• … is often authored by a data scientist.
• … is citable, enabling reuse to be tracked.
A data paper is not…
• … a research paper. A data paper only
describes a dataset. But it will reference
research papers that are based on the data.
• … simply replication of the information in a
data repository.
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8.
Peer review
1. The paper contents
a. The methods section of the paper must provide
sufficient detail that a reader can understand how
the resource was created.
b. The resource must be correctly described.
c. The reuse section must provide concrete and useful
suggestions for reuse of the reuse.
2. The deposited resource
a. The repository must be suitable for resource
and have a sustainability model.
b. Open license permits unrestricted access (e.g. CC0).
c. A version in an open, non-proprietary format.
d. Labeled in such a way that a 3rd party can make
sense of it.
e. Must be actionable.
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10.
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