2014 Charleston Conference Friday, Nov 7, 3:15 PM Presented by Mark Hahnel, Figshare

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Helping Your Researchers Get
The Credit They Deserve
@markhahnel
@figshare

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“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve
easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for.
That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John
Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D
expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded
research freely available to the public within one year of publication and
requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data
resulting from federally funded scientific research.”
February 22nd 2013

3. “Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than
incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical
collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of
work under NSF grants”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4
“NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the
acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset”
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharingdata_sharing_guidance.htm#time
“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution”
http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf

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7. 1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded
research
4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded
research
5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
The Open Academic Tidal Wave

8. 1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded
research
4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded
research
5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of
publicly funded research
6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of
publicly funded research
The Open Academic Tidal Wave

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"Products of research are not just publications.”
NSF senior policy specialist Beth Strausser.
Biographical Sketch(es), has been revised to rename the “Publications”
section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly.
13 January 2013: "National Science Foundation’s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions” Chapter II.C.2.f(i)(c),

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A cloud based research data management
system for academics and administrators:
What is figshare?
Manage their research
outputs privately and
securely, with controlled
collaborative spaces
Public repository of all
research outputs from an
institution, with impact and
usage metrics

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4 Reporting Dashboard
Impact and Usage Reporting.
Administrative Workflow Portal
A portal where administrators can manage curation of files to be
made public, storage space allocation and user rights.
Public Digital Research Repository
A customisable public portal with all digital files made public at an
institutional, departmental and group level.
Research Data Management
Private, controlled storage and collaborative spaces
for every academic at the institution.
4 Key Modules

21. •Incentivising compliance
•Facilitating international collaboration
•Integration into user workflows
•Quantifying impact
•Administrative curation layer
•Embargo support
•Open data principles
•Citable – with DOIs
•Increases impact of research
•Trusted Repository
•Persistent links
•Heavyweight infrastructure

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Advocacy
is essential

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Institutions
Generating the world’s knowledge

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Thanks for your time.