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Open Scholarship: more important than ever
Brian Hole, Founder and CEO Levy Library, October 24th 2018

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 About Ubiquity
 WHY openness
matters
 Benefits of open
 Our approach
 Recent policy
 Achieving OA & OS
 The OS flywheel

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To achieve a revolution in open scholarship, returning control of
publishing to universities, libraries and researchers, by providing
them with the infrastructure, skills and support to succeed.
Background
Mission
 Spun out of University College London in 2012
 Researcher-led
 200+ years publishing experience
(BioMed Central, PLOS, Elsevier etc.)
 Current staff of 25, head office in London,
US office in Berkeley
 Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, conferences, repositories, data, software, wetware…
About Ubiquity Press

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100% OPEN ACCESS
100% OPEN SOURCE
Customer Charter
NO EXCLUSIVE BUNDLING

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Institutional customers
Must demonstrate community
values and provide guarantees
Determine who we will integrate
and work with
STEERING BOARD
Verify that charter is upheld in
significant investment or acquisition
PARTNERSHIP RULES
Community Driven

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The Social Contract of Academia
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Data, software, hardware,
wetware…
• Results
Source: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/2003-05-01
Unconditionally Open

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Source: Washington Post, May 7 2013 / Imgur: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more-
than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/

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Source: Nature News, 20 April 2011, DOI: 10.1038/472276a

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We’re not there
yet

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Transparent pricing, e.g. APC $500 (HSS) or $600 (STEM)

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Full anti-plagiarism checking
Provision for open research data
and software archiving with all
publications
Rigorous peer review
Editorial guidance and training
Provision for open peer review
COPE membership for all editors
Close links with society’s ethics
committee
Research integrity

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https://www.levylibrarypress.org/

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Recent policy

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European Commission plus 13
national research funding
organizations
‘cOAlition S’
“After 1 January 2020 scientific
publications on the results from
research funded by public
grants provided by national and
European research councils and
funding bodies, must be
published in compliant Open
Access Journals or on compliant
Open Access Platforms.”
Funders to cover APCs
APCs to be capped
No ‘hybrid’ OA

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• National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine (2018)
'A Vision for 21st Century
Research’
• "research conducted openly and
transparently leads to better science"
Available at: http://nap.edu/25116
• "Additional funding, mandates, and
community initiatives can be deployed
to push towards open science, but
careful planning of stakeholder buy-in
will be needed to avoid unintended
negative consequences and
disruptions."

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Means openness throughout the research lifecycle,
not just open access at the end:
Open Scholarship
Data Management Plans
Protocols / methodologies
Research data and software at all stages
Laboratory notebooks
Preprints
Peer-reviewed research results (articles, books)

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https://openhealthdata.metajnl.com/

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https://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/

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https://openbioresources.metajnl.com/

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http://opensourcemalaria.org/

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https://www.biorxiv.org/

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Legacy publishers have lobbied against the
right to electronically read even already
purchased content.
https://www.futuretdm.eu/
Machine reading of large volumes of papers
and datasets
More efficient, discovers otherwise
unknown correlations
Significant potential to accelerate science,
accelerate economic growth
Text and Data Mining

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Thanks!
Any questions?