Open science introduction @ apps for Ghent

1. “Why Open Science matters”
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2. Aaron Swartz
• On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by
MIT police on state breaking-and-entering
charges, after systematically downloading
academic journal articles from JSTOR
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4. SPARC.ORG
“dissemination of results of research is an
essential, inseparable component of the
research process”
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5. Wikipedia
Open science is the movement to make
scientific research, data and dissemination
accessible to all levels of an inquiring society,
amateur or professional.
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Source: clobridge consulting clobridgeconsulting.com

8. Why publish?
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9. Bagaball, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagaball/3144971358 (CC BY )
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10. Open Access: what is it?
• Worldwide electronic dissemination
• Of peer-reviewed research results
(publications or data)
• Free to use, free of restrictions (attribution!)
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12. Science for everyone to use
Source: Hack your PHD
http://hackyourphd.org/en/flyers/
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13. Creative Commons
Retain control over your work
Machine readable
Human readable
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14. Infrastructure
• Repositories:
eg. subject http://arxiv.org,
http://europepmc.org/, http://zenodo.eu
eg. Institutional http://biblio.ugent.be,
directory: http://opendoar.org
• Services: eg http://OpenAIRE.eu
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15. arXiv
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16. Europe PubMed Central
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17. Biblio
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18. Building Biblio: LibreCat.org
Software
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19. OpenAIRE
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20. (OPEN) RESEARCH DATA
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21. Data underlying
publications
Source: Hack your PHD
http://hackyourphd.org/en/flyers/
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22. Negative data is still data
Source: The Upturned Microscope, Nik
Papageorgiou
https://upmic.files.wordpress.com/201
3/06/negative-
data.png?w=545&h=1538
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23. • Publication
• Citation
• Archiving / curation
• Attribution
• Re-use
• Quality check
• Combine / mix
• Collaborate
• ….
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24. Directory: Re3data.org
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25. Burton, Gideon, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3156792001/ (CC BY-SA)
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26. Inge Van Nieuwerburgh
OpenAccess Belgium
http://openaccess.be
info@openaccess.be
Ghent University Library
Inge.VanNieuwerburgh@UGent.be
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