The document is an introductory presentation on open research organized by the Office of Scholarly Communication for STEM PhD students, highlighting the importance of sharing research openly and transparently. Key topics include managing one's online presence, utilizing repositories for sharing work, and the advantages of obtaining an ORCID for researchers. The presentation emphasizes ethical research practices and aims to enhance visibility and collaboration in the academic community.

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Office of Scholarly Communication
Open Research 101:
An Introduction for STEM
PhD students
Marta Teperek
Office of Scholarly Communication
mt446@cam.ac.uk
@martateperek
24 October 2016
All images are under CC0, unless
indicated otherwise

2. OSCLearning-by-doing
‘Click’ along:
http://bit.ly/OpenResearch20161024

3. OSCSlides are available
Slides are available – no
need to write everything
down
http://bit.ly/OpenResearchSlides

4. OSCTo start with…
• What are your expectations of today?
• Do you have any questions?

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• Transparency with the research process
• Ethical research
• Making research available fairly
• Making the whole research process available – not just the pdf of
the publication
• Rewarding researchers for working reproducibly
Today we will talk about the various elements of Open Research
What is Open Research?

6. OSCContents
Why Share?
• Being open means being online
• How do you want to present yourself to the outside
world?
• Benefits of sharing
• ORCiDs
How to share: Repositories
• What are repositories?
• Apollo – the institutional repository
Copyright
University services

7. OSCSo, let’s find out who you are
• Take a piece of paper
• Write your name on it in clear lettering
• Fold in quarters & give it to the person next to you
• You have two minutes to Google the person
• Write down four things about them
• Refold the paper & give the note back to the ‘owner’

8. OSCWhat’s Google saying about you?
• Have a look at your piece of paper
• Is this surprising?
• Anything you would like to talk about?

9. OSCSharing your work
Sharing your work means managing your online
presence
Manage it well!

10. OSCOne researcher’s list of things to do
http://svpow.com/2015/06/04/things-to-do-when-a-paper-comes-out-a-checklist/

11. OSCWhat’s this sharing business all about?
Research relies on the principle that we share our
findings
Ideas and arguments need to be shared to move
human knowledge forward
Without the supporting evidence, publications are just
claims
Sharing is fundamental to being a good academic

12. OSCBenefits of sharing your research

13. OSCBenefits of sharing your research
Copyright: Kirsten Lamb

14. OSC
Funders require that research is shared

15. OSCAnd of course… your VISIBILITY

16. OSC
• Did you find information about the right
person?
But coming back to Googling

17. OSCIdentify yourself

18. OSCWhich Wang?

19. OSCWhich Wang?

20. OSCAre you unique?
“Of the more than 6 million authors in major journal citations and abstracts database,
more then two-thirds of them share a last name and single initial with another author”
April 2014
http://www.ands.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/388822/share-issue-18.pdf
I’m lucky – I am unique
What about you?
Activity: Go to Scopus and search for yourself by initial and surname. Are you unique?
https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri

21. OSCGet an ORCiD!
Open
Researcher and
Contributor
ID
ORCID - your lifelong digital name
• It’s yours, not your institutions.
• You get a unique ID number and a profile page:
• You control your record, manage what information is connected and decide
how it is shared
• You can connect it with institutional systems!

22. OSCYour profile

23. OSCWhat are the benefits for me?
2. Reliably and easily connects you with your contributions and affiliations
1. Alleviates mistaken identity
John A. SmithJ. A. Smith
John Alexander Smith
J. Smith
?
John Smith

24. OSCWhat are the benefits for me?
3. Saves you time – “enter once, re-use often”
4. Improves recognition and
discoverability for you and your research
outputs
5. Enables you to comply with organisations that
require ORCIDs

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• Go to http://orcid.org/
Create your ORCiD

26. OSCYou can search for people by their ORCiD:

27. OSCHow to Share
“Can’t I just share my research
on ResearchGate?”

28. OSCHow to share
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A social networking site is NOT a substitute for an
open access repository
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-open-access-repository/
• ResearchGate and Academia.edu - primary aim is
to connect researchers with common interests
➢ Facebook/LinkedIn style experience
• Commercial companies
➢ Although Academia.edu has a “.edu” URL, it
isn’t run by a higher education institution.

29. OSCResearchGate requires you to log in to access

30. OSCAcademia.edu requires you to log in to access

31. OSC
– A place where things can be stored and shared
What is a repository?
What is a repository?

32. OSCWhat can be shared in a repository?
• Theses?
• Datasets?
• Personal data?
• Posters?
• Commercial data
(from an industrial
sponsor)?
• Copyright-protected
materials?
• Presentations?
• Articles?
• Data management
plans?
• Books?
• Reports?
• Somebody else’s work?
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33. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
There are different kinds of repositories:
• for ‘everything’
• for manuscripts & publications
• for books
• for datasets
• for software
• for hardware
• for institutions
And more!

34. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for ‘everything’
https://zenodo.org/

35. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for manuscripts and publications
https://arxiv.org/
Open access to
1,151,602 e-prints in:
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Quantitative Biology
• Quantitative Finance
• Statistics
http://biorxiv.org/

36. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for books
http://www.oapen.org/home
Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of
humanities and social sciences

37. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for datasets
http://www.re3data.org/
General purpose Discipline-specific

38. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for software

39. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for hardware
http://www.ohwr.org/
https://github.com/rwb27/openflexure_microscope

40. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for protocols
https://www.protocols.io/
https://www.protocols.io/view/Dissecting-and-Immunostaining-Drosophila-
melanogas-mw9wh5

41. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for model organisms
http://www.wormbase.org/
http://flybase.org/
http://www.xenbase.org/
https://www.arabidopsis.org/

42. OSCWhat kinds of repositories are there?
Repositories for physical samples
https://www.addgene.org/
http://www.findmice.org/
ATCC maintains
nearly 4,000 cell lines
http://www.lgcstan
dards-atcc.org/

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Institutional repository - Apollo
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You can use it to share:
– Articles
– Data
– Software
– Theses
– Presentations
– Posters
– Reports
– Videos
– Audio
– Books and book chapters
– Many others
Each records gets a DOI, which other
people can use to cite your output

44. OSCCambridge research repository
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/

45. OSCEach department has its own collection
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/24531

46. OSCAnd each submission gets its own record
http://dx.doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33
Citation
Reference to other
outputs
Licence

47. OSCUniversity repository is connected with ORCiD
http://dx.doi.org/10.17863/CAM.772

48. OSCYou can view other works by that person

49. OSCWell indexed - Google & Google Scholar

50. OSCNumbers of visits 17 Sept – 17 Oct 2016
Total 24,418

51. OSCYour VISIBILITY

52. OSC
Can you find research relevant to you?
- Try searching one of the repositories mentioned
Activity
52http://bit.ly/OpenResearch20161024

53. OSC
Warning!
Check the copyright conditions before you use
or share!

54. OSCLet’s start with a quiz…
www.slido.com
Code: #6910
Quiz adapted from:
• https://umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_admin/ofp/copyri
ght/media/Copyright_Quiz.pdf
• https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/grs/2015/07/24/take-
the-copyright-quiz-for-research-students-2/

55. OSCWhat if I want to re-use an image from the internet in my work?
You need to seek permission from the rights
holder
• If granted:
– Keep a copy of the correspondence
• If not given (or there is no response):
– you cannot make work available

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• How do I let others know they can re-use my
work?
This is extremely complicated!

57. OSCLicence you work!
https://vimeo.com/ccanz/cckiwi

58. OSCOr CC0 – public domain licence
https://pixabay.com/

59. OSCSo much choice! Can you recommend one?
Attribution Distribute, remix, tweak and
build upon the work as long as the author is
credited for the original creation
CC-BY

60. OSCSpotting the licence
http://dx.doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33
Licence

61. OSCCambridge support for sharing research

62. OSCHow to share your research?
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/share-your-research

63. OSCTraining and support
www.osc.cam.ac.uk/events

64. OSCSubscribe to our newsletter:
http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/newsletter/signup

65. OSCLost?
Dedicated support mailboxes:
• Publications: info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk
• Data: info@data.cam.ac.uk
• Theses: support@repository.cam.ac.uk
• Not sure? info@osc.cam.ac.uk

66. OSCHow does this all fit with Open Research?

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• Findable
– Every research output gets its own record
– Easily findable
• Accessible
– The record is retrievable and the files are available
• Interoperable
– Use of metadata and disciplinary standards
• Re-usable
– Re-use conditions specified
And the researcher gets credit (DOIs!)
Open Research is FAIR
https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples

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Nature 533, 452–454 (26 May 2016) doi:10.1038/533452a
Open Research is reproducible research

69. OSCScience relies on the principle that we share our findings
From Dr Eric Turner:
https://figshare.com/articles/Peer_review_After_Results_are_Known_Are_we_PARKing_th
e_Cart_Before_the_Horse_/3381379
FDA record of clinical trials with 12 antidepressants:
Only positive results published

70. OSCFunders support Open Research
https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/open-research

71. OSCCambridge supports Open Research
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research

72. OSCOpenCon Cam community
http://www.openconcam.org/

73. OSCOpenCon Cambridge – 24 November
http://www.opencon2016.org/kirstiejane/ope
ncon_2016_cambridge

74. OSCSeries of blog posts on Unlocking Research blog:
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=2#OpenResearch

75. OSCCould Open Research benefit Cambridge researchers?
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=817

76. OSC
Lead by example
What can you do today?

77. OSC
p-value 0.05: who is going to publish their results?
Share your research! Also non-positive!

78. OSCShare your research
• Theses?
• Datasets?
• Personal data?
• Posters?
• Commercial data
(from an industrial
sponsor)?
• Copyright-protected
materials?
• Presentations?
• Articles?
• Data management
plans?
• Books?
• Reports?
• Somebody else’s work?
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
? ?
?
X

79. OSCJoin Open Con Cam community
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/openconcam
If you are not sure it is for you, join the mailing list first:
Meeting every months on Wednesdays

80. OSCRegister for OpenCon Cambridge 2016
http://www.opencon2016.org/kirstiejane/ope
ncon_2016_cambridge

81. OSC
Questions
Feedback forms

82. OSCTake-aways:

83. OSC
@CamOpenData
@CamOpenAccess
Thank you
http://bit.ly/OpenResearchSlides