Open Research comprises open access to the broad range of research outputs, from journal articles and the underlying data to protocols, results (including negative results), software and tools. Open Research increases inclusivity and collaboration, improves transparency and reproducibility of research and underpins research integrity.
This workshop focuses on the benefits of practicing open research for you as a researcher, to improve discoverability and maximise access to your work and to raise your professional profile.
By the end of the session you will:
• Have an understanding of the principles of Open Research
• Understand open licences and how they apply to publications, data and software
• Be able to apply key tools and techniques to increase the visibility of yourself and your research, including repositories, ORCID, social media and altmetrics
• Describe the different ways of making research and data available open access
Presented at the Open Science Fair, Athens 6-8 September 2017, at the FOSTER Plus "Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond" workshop http://www.opensciencefair.eu/training/parallel-day-2-2/fostering-the-practical-implementation-of-open-science-in-horizon-2020-and-beyond
Stop Press: Libraries' Role in the Future of PublishingDanny Kingsley
This was presented to the SLA2016 conference in Philadelphia on 12 June.
ABSTRACT: Libraries are moving from curators of bought content to providing access to research or industry outputs. This activity can range from the relatively informal process of dissemination through a repository to acting as publishers - through the hosting of research journals, bibliographies and newsletters to the provision of editorial services and advice. This 90 minute Master Class will look at different models of publishing in the library environment with several examples of publishing activity in different libraries. The session will start with a strategic overview of the need for libraries to actively engage in the dissemination of information created by their organisations. The discussion will cover the staffing implications including how to recruit and train for the required skills sets. Attendees will work through some of the issues that need to be considered if a library is interested in publishing, including some of the legal implications and the different software and technical platforms available. Ideas will be workshopped about ways to engage the institutional community and encourage uptake of services on offer. The class aims to provide practical information to allow attendees to make decisions about what services are achievable to offer their clients, both from a technical and a staffing perspective. Attendees who are currently publishing are actively encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Presented at the Open Science Fair, Athens 6-8 September 2017, at the FOSTER Plus "Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond" workshop http://www.opensciencefair.eu/training/parallel-day-2-2/fostering-the-practical-implementation-of-open-science-in-horizon-2020-and-beyond
Stop Press: Libraries' Role in the Future of PublishingDanny Kingsley
This was presented to the SLA2016 conference in Philadelphia on 12 June.
ABSTRACT: Libraries are moving from curators of bought content to providing access to research or industry outputs. This activity can range from the relatively informal process of dissemination through a repository to acting as publishers - through the hosting of research journals, bibliographies and newsletters to the provision of editorial services and advice. This 90 minute Master Class will look at different models of publishing in the library environment with several examples of publishing activity in different libraries. The session will start with a strategic overview of the need for libraries to actively engage in the dissemination of information created by their organisations. The discussion will cover the staffing implications including how to recruit and train for the required skills sets. Attendees will work through some of the issues that need to be considered if a library is interested in publishing, including some of the legal implications and the different software and technical platforms available. Ideas will be workshopped about ways to engage the institutional community and encourage uptake of services on offer. The class aims to provide practical information to allow attendees to make decisions about what services are achievable to offer their clients, both from a technical and a staffing perspective. Attendees who are currently publishing are actively encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Open Science, Why not?
Presented at the Agreenskills meeting
Paris, 15 February 2017
Abstract: Imagine YOUR research some time in the future! Abandon all preconceptions, and imagine an idealised way of how research might be done in the future. What does it look like? Is the knowledge you’ll create in the future constrained to your pencil scribbled notebook, to your lab, and to the pages of an elite journal? Or does it flow seamlessly across disciplines and collaborative teams. Is the knowledge you generate in the future categorised, labelled and published according to rigid disciplinary taxonomy, or is it being applied by people you never met and may never meet. Is the fruit of your labour so discoverable, accessible and re-usable that it advances knowledge, fixes real world problems in research directions that you never thought of possible anticipated? And imagine all that happens even while you are sleeping, but attributing full credit to you? That future may become the default setting sooner than you might guess.
The presentation will briefly introduce Open Science in the context of an open, transparent, re-usable and reproducible research lifecycle, and present strategic and career arguments, such as why research of relevance to societal challenges can not afford not to adopt Open Science as the default setting.
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Ulrich Pöschl (MPIC/ ACP) -- Multi-stage open peer review integrating the str...OpenAIRE
Presentation of Ulrich Pöschl from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz/Germany and ACP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) on the OpenAIRE workshop "Open Peer Review: Models, Benefits and Limitations"
6-4-13 VIVO Case Studies Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #2: Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College, June 4, 2013
Presented by: Alex Viggio, VIVO Implementation Lead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
O Futuro da Biblioteconomia no Brasil: Workshop Interativo
Quando: 07 de outubro de 2015 – 10h – 15h
Onde: Auditório do INRAD
Instituto de Radiologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, s/nº – Rua 1 – Cerqueira César – São Paulo, SP.
Meeting the Research Data Management Challenge - Rachel Bruce, Kevin Ashley, ...Jisc
Universities and researchers need to be able to manage research data effectively to fulfil research funders requirements and ultimately to contribute to research excellence. UK universities are comparatively well advanced in what is a global challenge, but none the less there needs to be further advances in university policy, technical and support services. This session will share best practice in research data management and information about key tools that can help to develop university solutions; and it will also inform participants about the latest Jisc initiatives to help build university research data services and shared services.
6-11-13 VIVO Technical Deep Dive Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #: 6-11-13 VIVO Technical Deep Dive, June 11, 2013
Presented by: Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell University and Jim Blake, VIVO Release Manager, Cornell University.
5-14-13 An Introduction to VIVO Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #1: An Introduction to VIVO, May 14, 2013
Presented by: Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Management Committee, Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell and Jon Corson-Rikert, VIVO Development Lead, Cornell
Relationship Building and Advocacy Across the CampusUCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, Research Services Manager at University College Dublin Library, to the ANLTC Seminar: Supporting the Activities of Your Research Community - Issues and Initiatives, held on December 3, 2014 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
Closing the scientific literature access gap with CORE - how to gain free acc...Nancy Pontika
Presented during the International Open Access Week 2020 for the Kerala Library Association, October 21, 2020.
The presentation is about CORE, a global harvester of open access scientific content and the CORE services on content discovery, managing content and access to raw data.
Keynote talk to LEARN (LERU/H2020 project) for research data management. Emphasizes that problems are cultural not technical. Promotes modern approaches such as Git / continuousIntegration, announces DAT. Asserts that the Right to Read in the Right to Mine. Calls for widespread development of contentmining (TDM)
Open Science, Why not?
Presented at the Agreenskills meeting
Paris, 15 February 2017
Abstract: Imagine YOUR research some time in the future! Abandon all preconceptions, and imagine an idealised way of how research might be done in the future. What does it look like? Is the knowledge you’ll create in the future constrained to your pencil scribbled notebook, to your lab, and to the pages of an elite journal? Or does it flow seamlessly across disciplines and collaborative teams. Is the knowledge you generate in the future categorised, labelled and published according to rigid disciplinary taxonomy, or is it being applied by people you never met and may never meet. Is the fruit of your labour so discoverable, accessible and re-usable that it advances knowledge, fixes real world problems in research directions that you never thought of possible anticipated? And imagine all that happens even while you are sleeping, but attributing full credit to you? That future may become the default setting sooner than you might guess.
The presentation will briefly introduce Open Science in the context of an open, transparent, re-usable and reproducible research lifecycle, and present strategic and career arguments, such as why research of relevance to societal challenges can not afford not to adopt Open Science as the default setting.
It is not new to say that the scholarly communication system is sick. One way to put it is that the publishers have built a paywall around the papers written by our faculty and make us librarians pay for it.
For years, Open Access via the green and gold route have been touted as a joint solution. To this end, as academic librarians, we focused on building institutional repositories and getting open access mandates. However, recently, many prominent members of the open access community have begun to express doubts about the viability of institutional repositories as a solution given the lack of success.
Some, like Stevan Harnad self-dubbed “Open Access Archivangelist” for Green Open access, claim to have given up, while others, like Eric Van de Velde, suggest that we rethink other ways to accomplish Green Open access beyond just institutional repositories. In this webinar, we will summarise all the arguments and attempt to give a librarian’s point of view about the future of IRs.
Ulrich Pöschl (MPIC/ ACP) -- Multi-stage open peer review integrating the str...OpenAIRE
Presentation of Ulrich Pöschl from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz/Germany and ACP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) on the OpenAIRE workshop "Open Peer Review: Models, Benefits and Limitations"
6-4-13 VIVO Case Studies Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #2: Case Studies: VIVO at Colorado, Brown, Duke, and Weill Cornell Medical College, June 4, 2013
Presented by: Alex Viggio, VIVO Implementation Lead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Steven McCauley, Brown University, Julia Trimmer, Duke University and Paul Albert, Weill Cornell Medical College.
Notes from attending FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh (October 15-18), covering a range of topics around Research Communications, e-Scholarship, Open Science and Open Access. Links on last slide for full conference programme and presented materials available online.
O Futuro da Biblioteconomia no Brasil: Workshop Interativo
Quando: 07 de outubro de 2015 – 10h – 15h
Onde: Auditório do INRAD
Instituto de Radiologia do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP
Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, s/nº – Rua 1 – Cerqueira César – São Paulo, SP.
Meeting the Research Data Management Challenge - Rachel Bruce, Kevin Ashley, ...Jisc
Universities and researchers need to be able to manage research data effectively to fulfil research funders requirements and ultimately to contribute to research excellence. UK universities are comparatively well advanced in what is a global challenge, but none the less there needs to be further advances in university policy, technical and support services. This session will share best practice in research data management and information about key tools that can help to develop university solutions; and it will also inform participants about the latest Jisc initiatives to help build university research data services and shared services.
6-11-13 VIVO Technical Deep Dive Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #: 6-11-13 VIVO Technical Deep Dive, June 11, 2013
Presented by: Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell University and Jim Blake, VIVO Release Manager, Cornell University.
5-14-13 An Introduction to VIVO Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, "Series Five: VIVO: Research Discovery and Networking.” Webinar #1: An Introduction to VIVO, May 14, 2013
Presented by: Dean Krafft, Chief Technology Strategist at Cornell University Library and Chair of the VIVO-DuraSpace Management Committee, Brian Lowe, Semantic Applications Programmer, Cornell and Jon Corson-Rikert, VIVO Development Lead, Cornell
Relationship Building and Advocacy Across the CampusUCD Library
Presentation given by Julia Barrett, Research Services Manager at University College Dublin Library, to the ANLTC Seminar: Supporting the Activities of Your Research Community - Issues and Initiatives, held on December 3, 2014 at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
Closing the scientific literature access gap with CORE - how to gain free acc...Nancy Pontika
Presented during the International Open Access Week 2020 for the Kerala Library Association, October 21, 2020.
The presentation is about CORE, a global harvester of open access scientific content and the CORE services on content discovery, managing content and access to raw data.
Keynote talk to LEARN (LERU/H2020 project) for research data management. Emphasizes that problems are cultural not technical. Promotes modern approaches such as Git / continuousIntegration, announces DAT. Asserts that the Right to Read in the Right to Mine. Calls for widespread development of contentmining (TDM)
Lezione di Emma Lazzeri e Paolo Manghi (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) entro la Didattica sperimentale per dottorandi dell'Università di Pisa 2018-2019 - Modulo offerti dal LabCD
Common Ground: a policy framework for open access to research dataLIBER Europe
Presentation of the ReCODE project at LIBER 2013 in Munich. Presents the argument for stakeholder engagement in the development of open access policies for research data
Realising the value of open data: some disciplinary perspectivesLIBER Europe
Presentation fro the CIRCE workshop on ISS data preservation and use. Presents finding from the RECODE project on the value of making data open from the perspective of different research disciplines.
Presentation by the ROER4D Curation and Dissemination Manager, Michelle Willmers, on Science Communication to the “Middleware for Collaborative Applications and Global Virtual Communities” (Magic) project.
Session 1
How to implement Open Science
Antónia Correia & Pedro Principe, University of Minho
Open Access Publishing
How to implement Open Access and Open Science
What is Open Access and how to provide Open Access
Open Access in Horizon 2020: how to comply with H2020 Open Science requirements
Managing and Sharing Research Data
Open, closed and shared data
Data Management Plans
Open Data in Horizon 2020: how to comply with H2020 Open Science requirements
Presentation delivered by cIRcle staff for graduate student series at UBC Library on Scholarly Rights and Responsibilities. Topics include publisher agreements, author rights, benefits of using cIRcle, UBC's digital repository .
This presentation by Judith Coffey Russell, Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida and Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access, Elsevier describes expanding access to publications by University of Florida authors through the university's institutional repository using ScienceDirect supplied data and links. See the webcast at https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9995/125071.
Open Research – an introduction. Presented by Judith Carr, Research Data Manager, Open Research Team, University of Liverpool Library. Session aims:
* To show how open research can involve the research lifecycle from the beginning to the end.
* To encourage you as researchers to recognise opportunities where you can be more open
From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research?OER Hub
"From Theory to Practice..." was presented by Beck Pitt at OpenEd 2014, Washington DC, USA during November 2014.
This presentation was developed from the slide deck presented at CALRG 2014 at The Open University (UK) during Summer 2014.
From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research?Beck Pitt
"From Theory to Practice..." was presented by Beck Pitt at OpenEd 2014, Washington DC, USA during November 2014.
This presentation was developed from the slide deck presented at CALRG 2014 at The Open University (UK) during Summer 2014.
Publication Strategy: Helping Academics to Increase the Impact of their Res...Fintan Bracken
This presentation was given at the CONUL / ANLTC Seminar "Supporting the activities of your research community – issues and initiatives" Royal Irish Academy, Dublin in December 2014.The talk looked at methods of helping researchers to improve the impact of their research.
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Slides from an online event held at the University of Leeds on 22 September 2022: Case by case: Open research in different disciplines
Together with Dr Dorka Tamás, Chris Cox has developed open research case studies from across the University of Leeds.
You can access the event recording on the University of Leeds Libraries blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/case-by-case-open-research-in-different-disciplines/
Case by case: Open research in different disciplinesUoLResearchSupport
Slides from an online event held at the University of Leeds on 22 September 2022: Case by case: Open research in different disciplines
Together with Chris Cox, Dr Dorka Tamás has developed open research case studies from across the University of Leeds.
You can access the event recording on the University of Leeds Libraries blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2022/11/04/case-by-case-open-research-in-different-disciplines/
Funded by Research England, post-doctoral researcher Dorka Tamás and PhD candidate Christopher Cox have conducted interviews with colleagues from different faculties, schools and services across the University of Leeds, to raise awareness of open research practices across disciplines and career stages.
These are Chris' slides from an online event held on 22 September 2022.
For more information see the Library blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/tag/open-lunch/
Case by case: Open research in different disciplines (Dr Dorka Tamas)UoLResearchSupport
Funded by Research England, post-doctoral researcher Dorka Tamás and PhD candidate Christopher Cox have conducted interviews with colleagues from different faculties, schools and services across the University of Leeds, to raise awareness of open research practices across disciplines and career stages.
These are Dorka's slides from an online event held on 22 September 2022.
For more information see the Library blog: https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/tag/open-lunch/
Contributing to the global commons: A Wikipedia "how to" sessionUoLResearchSupport
Full recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7bbSPQyVdQ
Wikipedia 'The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit' aspires to provide universal access to a summary of all human knowledge and is one of the first places people go when looking for information, with over 15 billion visitors every month.
While they may not readily admit it, not only a lay audience but scholars, researchers and doctors also use Wikipedia. There is evidence, for example, that Wikipedia shapes language in science papers.
Wikipedia is only as good as its contributors. This event was part of a pilot project to empower colleagues to join the Wikipedia community and contribute their expertise to the 'global commons'.
The session was be led by Dr Martin Poulter from the University of Bristol and former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the University of Oxford. Martin took us through the guidelines for working with the Wikimedia community, taught us how to use the wiki interface and helped usmake some test edits.
Martin also explained how Wikipedia is just one of 16 interconnected projects that are also linked to a wider ecosystem of sites and apps.
Further reading:
Poulter, Martin, and Nick Sheppard. 2020. “Wikimedia and Universities: Contributing to the Global Commons in the Age of Disinformation”. Insights 33 (1): 14. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.509
Slides from a hybrid event at the University of Leeds on 21 July 2022. Part of a pilot project to empower colleagues to contribute to the 'global commons' of knowledge through the Wikimedia suite of tools.
(Recording to follow)
See a recording of a previous event "Contributing to the global commons: A Wikipedia "how to" session" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7bbSPQyVdQ
Both sessions were led by Dr Martin Poulter from the University of Bristol and former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the University of Oxford.
A global commons: turning research into educational material with WikimediaUoLResearchSupport
On 21st April we welcomed Dr Martin Poulter former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the Bodleian Library to learn how the Wikimedia suite of tools can extend the reach and impact of research to support teaching and learning.
Martin talked about his work as a Wikimedian, and some of the projects at the Bodleian that demonstrate the combined use of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia to extend the reach and impact of research outputs.
Wikimedia also aligns with the University of Leeds Libraries Vision for 2030: Knowledge for all, and Open Research Advisor Nick Sheppard discussed how we are planning to work with Martin as part of our open research strategy.
Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is one of the most visited website in the world. Perhaps less well-known are a wide range of related projects under the Wikimedia umbrella.
- Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed media files including photographs, diagrams, video and audio
- Wikisource is a free library of out-of-copyright texts
Wikiversity and Wikibooks encourage collaborative creation of open educational resources (OERs)
- Wikidata is a store of structured data that can be read and edited by humans or machines.
A global commons: turning research into educational material with Wikimedia UoLResearchSupport
On 21st April we welcomed Dr Martin Poulter former 'Wikimedian in Residence' at the Bodleian Library to learn how the Wikimedia suite of tools can extend the reach and impact of research to support teaching and learning.
Martin talked about his work as a Wikimedian, and some of the projects at the Bodleian that demonstrate the combined use of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia to extend the reach and impact of research outputs.
Wikimedia also aligns with the University of Leeds Libraries Vision for 2030: Knowledge for all, and Open Research Advisor Nick Sheppard discussed how we are planning to work with Martin as part of our open research strategy.
Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" is one of the most visited website in the world. Perhaps less well-known are a wide range of related projects under the Wikimedia umbrella.
- Wikimedia Commons is a repository of openly licensed media files including photographs, diagrams, video and audio
- Wikisource is a free library of out-of-copyright texts
Wikiversity and Wikibooks encourage collaborative creation of open educational resources (OERs)
- Wikidata is a store of structured data that can be read and edited by humans or machines.
What support is being provided to researchers? A view from a universityUoLResearchSupport
Short presentation on Friday 26th December as part of the FAIRsFAIR workshop: Advancing the skills agenda for reproducibility, open and FAIR. A virtual National Roadshow from FAIRsFAIR
The greatest possible impact: The Wellcome Trust and open researchUoLResearchSupport
Research funders are increasingly recognising the importance of open research practices, to increase the reach and impact of their funded research and to ensure the integrity of research results.
The Wellcome Trust have been leading efforts to make research more open for more than 20 years, ever since working to make sure the results of the Human Genome Project were released immediately into the public domain. They were also the first research funder to introduce a mandatory open access policy, with more than 150 global research funders having since followed their lead. More recently, they have developed the Wellcome Open Research platform, which allow their researchers to rapidly publish and share their findings openly and transparently, and encourage researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
On Thursday 17th June we welcome Sonya Towers, Grants Adviser - Immunobiology and Infectious Disease at the Wellcome Trust, to discuss Wellcome’s approach to open research including their Output Management Plan pilot on which they are liaising with the University of Leeds.
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On 26 May 2021 Dr Marlene Mengoni was one of two speakers at an event exploring barriers to open research.
Dr Marlene Mengoni is a member of the Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering (IMBE) at the University of Leeds and is interested in theoretical aspects of musculoskeletal tissues biomechanics with a fundamental computational engineering approach.
Speaking from an engineering perspective, Dr Mengoni discussed how the research culture at the University of Leeds can help to foster open research practices, throughout the research cycle, including embedding "open" in research and training.
Not just for STEM: Open and reproducible research in the social sciencesUoLResearchSupport
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From peer reviewed journal articles, to assorted reports and grey literature, to datasets comprising numerical, textual or multimedia files; we generate thousands of research outputs.
In this session, Kirsten Thompson (OD&PL) and Nick Sheppard (Library) will discuss strategies for increasing quality online engagement with that research. We will explore how you can use ‘alternative metrics’, more commonly known as ‘altmetrics’, to monitor such engagement. Altmetrics can help to showcase the reach of your work, supplement grant and tenure applications, identify new audiences, and connect with other researchers in your discipline.
In the age of “fake news”, academics have a responsibility to share their expertise beyond the Ivory Tower. We’ll show you how to ensure all these disparate outputs are properly curated in university repositories with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). There will also be an opportunity to learn about and contribute to the Library led Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM).
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
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How practising open research can benefit you
1. How practising open research can benefit you
2019/20
e: research@library.leeds.ac.uk
t: 0113 343 8956
2. Learning outcomes
By the end of the session you will:
• Have an understanding of the principles of Open Research
• Understand open licences and how they apply to publications, data and
software
• Be able to apply key tools and techniques to increase the visibility of
yourself and your research, including repositories, ORCID, social media and
altmetrics
• Describe the different ways of making research and data available open
access
3. Who are you?
• Staff or PGR?
• Faculty?
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https://www.menti.com/
Please enter the code
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7. What is Open Research?
Open Science is the practice of science in such
a way that others can collaborate and
contribute, where research data, lab notes
and other research processes are freely
available, under terms that enable reuse,
redistribution and reproduction of the
research and its underlying data and methods.
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/foster-
taxonomy/open-science-definition
We prefer the term “open research” to be more
inclusive of the humanities.
The same principles apply.
Open Science facets as a beehive
8. Open Access (publications)
Gold Open Access
• Free to read on publisher
website
• Alternative funding models
(e.g. Open Library of the
Humanities)
• Payment of Article Processing
Charges (APC) to a publisher
• University may pay APC if you
are funded by COAF or RCUK
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/open
-access-funding
• Paper should also be added to
Publications Database
Green Open Access
• Paper published in subscription
journal
• Log in to the University’s
Publications Database using your
IT username and password and
add your research outputs
(author accepted manuscript)
https://publications.leeds.ac.uk
• No cost involved
• Library checks, adds it to the
institutional repository (White
Rose Research Online) and applies
any embargoes
Preprints
• Version that precedes formal
peer review
• Preprint servers in a range of
disciplines
• Does not (usually) preclude
later formal publication
• Arxiv (1991)
• BioRxiv
• ChemRxiv
• PsyArxiv
e.g. Elsevier, not universal Not universal. Caveats applyRequired by UKRI
9. A note on Plan S
Hybrid model
• subscription access but gives
authors an option to pay to
make articles open access
• attracts criticism for charging
authors and subscribers at
the same time
• “double dipping”
• Plan S does not support
publication in hybrid journals
• Publications published under an open
license (CC-BY)
• Full and immediate access at the point of
publication
• Funders won’t pay APCs for Hybrid
journals (journals that charge both for
subscription and publication costs)
• Green OA is compliant as long as
publications are made openly available at
the point of publication (zero embargo)
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14061/open_access/8/open_access_explained/4
10. Open Data
“as open as possible, as closed as necessary”
• Publicly-funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest
• Publicly-funded research data should be openly available to the maximum extent
possible
• A data management plan should exist
• Software and code
• Wellcome Trust - Data, software and materials management and sharing policy
• “Output management plan”
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Horizon 2020
11. • REF 2021 Open Access Policy (UKRI)
• EPSRC policy framework on research data
• Data, software and materials management and
sharing policy (Wellcome Trust)
• University of Leeds publication policy
• Research data management policy
The policy burden
12. Benefit 1
Who is most likely to reuse
your data in the future?
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13. Benefit 1
Self-interest
Who is most likely to reuse your data in the future?
Retain access to your own material when you move institution
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Putting more of your work and data in the public domain is central to open science and increases ECRs’
opportunities for acknowledgment, exchange, collaboration, and advancement.
• Allen, C. and Mehler, D. (2019). Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and
beyond. PLOS Biology, 17(5), p.e3000246. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000246
14. Challenges
• Challenge 1: Restrictions on flexibility (e.g. registered reports*)
• Challenge 2: The time cost
• Challenge 3: Incentive structure isn’t in place yet
* Empirical article in which the methods and proposed analyses are registered and reviewed prior to research
being conducted – designed to minimise bias
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Overall, we believe open methods are worthwhile, positive, necessary, and inevitable but can come at a
cost that ECRs would do well to consider.
• Allen, C. and Mehler, D. (2019). Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and
beyond. PLOS Biology, 17(5), p.e3000246. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000246
15. Transparent and reproducible research
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Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments
in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0399-z
Ensuring that analyses and methodology are fully transparent throughout the
research lifecycle means you can better contribute to science and research,
saving time and enabling others to check your results.
• several high profile social science
studies could not be independently
replicated
• similar issues identified in psychology
and biomedical science
https://the-turing-way.netlify.com/reproducibility/03/definitions.html
16. Exercise
A researcher in your School has published a highly cited research paper.
A professor at another institution has reported that she cannot
replicate the reported research findings.
• What information and documentation would be needed for your
colleague to demonstrate how their findings can be replicated?”
17. UKRNLeeds
• UK Reproducibility Network
• http://ukrn.org
• ReproducibiliTea
• Resources and reading list
• https://osf.io/3qrj6/wiki/home/
• ReproducibiliTea at Leeds
• http://bit.ly/ReproducibiliTea
• Twitter - #UKRNLeeds
18. Infrastructure
• Repositories
• institutional
• 3rd party
• https://www.re3data.org/
• Persistent identifiers (PIDs)
• DOI
• ORCID - https://orcid.org/
• Social media
• Twitter*
• Blogs
• Mendeley*
• ResearchGate*
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“digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual
output of a single or multi-university community”
SPARC 2006
* Is proprietary infrastructure properly ‘open’?
19. Infrastructure
• Repositories
• institutional
• 3rd party
• Persistent identifiers (PIDs)
• DOI
• ORCID - https://orcid.org/
• Social media
• Twitter*
• Blogs
• Mendeley*
• ResearchGate*
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PIDs eliminate ambiguity; the metadata associated with them
describes what something is, helps you find it, and lets you
know how to use and reuse it.
FREYA project
* Is proprietary infrastructure properly ‘open’?
20. Other tools
• Altmetric*
• Academia.edu*
• ScienceOpen -
https://www.scienceopen.com/
• Open Science Framework -
https://osf.io/
• Kudos -
https://growkudos.com/
• Wikimedia -
https://www.wikimedia.org/
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101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication
* Is proprietary infrastructure properly ‘open’?
21. Benefit 2
Be the change you want to see
By helping to change academic culture you benefit everyone
If your group isn’t doing it, initiate the discussion – impress
your peers!
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22. Open licences – Creative commons
• “Some rights reserved”
• Enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction
• Legal code / human and machine readable
No rights reserved
Attribution (CC-BY)
Attribution ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC
BY-NC-SA)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC
BY-NC-ND)
23. Software
• Make your code citable
• Github/Zenodo
• https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/
• Open Software License 3.0 (OSL-3.0)
• https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0
• GNU General Public Licence v3.0
• https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
• MIT Licence
• https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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24. Benefit 3
Open should be the default, not the
exception
Faster dissemination and impact (but make sure you talk to your
collaborators)
Research data has intrinsic value and will have an impact in itself and
through increased citation
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25. An example
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• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.09.010
• http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/121665/
• https://doi.org/10.5518/252
• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2949-5353
• https://twitter.com/JirenXu
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PEATMAP.jpg
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58417726
27. Altmetrics
To track the online attention for a specific piece of research
Altmetric.com needs:
An output (journal
article, dataset etc)
An identifier attached to
the output (DOI)
Mentions in a
source we track
29. Benefit 4
Innovation thrives on collaboration
Wider reach, wider impact (outside academia).
Interdisciplinary research is the future – help your work reach others
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30. Jack Andraka
• Invented a new type of sensor for early-stage pancreatic cancer
screening
• Grand prize at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (2012)
I had no access to any information that wasn’t on the Internet. I was able to
educate myself using Google and Wikipedia. These resources can empower
not only patients, but researchers like me who do not have access to
university libraries or classrooms. I was able to learn the basics and then dig
deeper as questions arose. I was able to access research from many fields
and then connect the dots to create my new sensor.
Teen cancer researcher Jack Andraka discusses open access in science,
stagnation in medicine
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31. • Open access (publications)
• Funder policies
• Journal policies
• Preprints
• Open research data
• Researcher attitudes
• Funder policies
• Research data repositories
• Open code
• Github / Zenodo (DOI)
• Software licences
• Open scholarly comms
• Open peer review
• Networks
• Use of altmetrics
Bringing it all together
32. Self-interest
• Who is most likely to reuse your data in
the future?
Be the change you want to see
• Initiate the discussion – impress your
peers!
Open should be the default, not the
exception
• Faster dissemination and impact
Innovation thrives on collaboration
• Wider reach, wider impact (outside
academia)
Bringing it all together
33. Further information and support
Researcher support webpages: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/researcher
• Raising research visibility
• Open access
• Endnote
• Bibliometrics
• Literature searching
• Research data management
Email us: research@library.leeds.ac.uk
Call us: 0113 343 0583
34. Workshops
• Data management essentials: PGRs and research staff
• EndNote training webinar: For anyone who wants to learn the basics of EndNote
• Increase your research visibility: PGRs
• Increase your research visibility: Research staff
• Literature searching for your research project: PGRs and research staff
• Safeguarding sensitive data: for your research degree: PGRs
• Safeguarding sensitive data: for research staff: Research staff
• How practicing Open Research can benefit you: PGRs and research staff
• Finding open content for your research: PGRs and research staff
• Using Symplectic to increase the visibility of your research outputs: PGRs & research staff
• Introduction to bibliometrics for research staff: Suitable for research staff
• Publishing your PhD as a monograph: Suitable for PGRs and research staff
• Shut up and write: Suitable for PGRs and research staff
For more information and to book: http://bit.ly/376Ua7L
Editor's Notes
Handout?
Briefly explain that we have mapped our workshops to the Researcher Development Framework – Info lit lens. It maybe something that they want to have a look at to help them identify any areas where they may feel they need to develop their skills.
Opening up your data is just one element of a wider philosophy and practice of ‘open science’ – or ‘open scholarship’
#openscience - making scientific research, data and dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society
New research methods – Big Data management and analysis
Societal engagement – citizen science, include society in scientific discussion
OA to research and underlying data, transparency of research processes
Collaboration – data sharing based collaboration, social media in research
Plan S is an initiative to speed up the transition to Open Access, where funded research is available immediately in OA journals and on platforms. It is led by a consortium (cOAlition S) of 23 funders, supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council. Plan S is due to come into force from 1 January 2021.
Academic publishing industry has profit margins to rival Google, Apple and Amazon
In 2017, Elsevier’s annual profits exceeded £900 million
Globally, the academic publishing industry is valued at over £19 billion
Unsustainable journal business models
Outrageous system; researchers provide work, funders and universities foot the bill. Then universities/funders then have to pay colossal fees to publish & pay for access!
Hybrid Journals: some articles are OA and other content is only accessible via subscriptions.
So many universities and funders have to pay twice for Library subscriptions and APCs.
As publishers’ income increases from APCs, many fail to adjust subscription prices. This is known as “Double Dipping”.
At Leeds, in 2017/18 an average APC for Hybrid cost approx. £2,100
Pure Gold APC average cost £1684.
All the Research Councils have data management expectations and there is a major data pilot as part of the European Horizon 2020 programme.
Much research is publicly funded. The Research Councils’ statement on data emphasises “Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the public interest, which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner that does not harm intellectual property.” [RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy, www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/]
Many Universities have data management policies (not just in the UK). The Leeds data policy is online at http://researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/management-policy
Some journal publishers expect the data underpinning published papers to be available – it may be a condition of acceptance (e.g. Nature, PLoS)
The move towards improving data management and data sharing is international.
ensure return on public money - not just policies for policy sake!
Hard distinction between confirmatory and exploratory research i.e. sto developing an experiment and start collecting data
For transparency and as part of good scholarly practice, you should think about whether and how another researcher could reproduce your finding using the same method and your shared data.
Read the linked material for a definition of key terms used in discussion of reproducibility and replicability.
A 2018 paper published in Nature Human Behaviour found that a significant number of high profile social science studies could not be independently replicated. Similar issues have been identified in psychology and biomedical science. To ensure that research is transparent and reproducible, data and code underlying a research output should be available to rerun analyses.
Ensuring that analyses and methodology are fully transparent throughout the research lifecycle means you can better contribute to science and research, saving time and enabling others to check your results. Other researchers can easily build on your results or reuse your data, code and
methodology for their own independent analyses. Another benefit is that negative results can be shared so that other researchers do not needlessly repeat your work.
Suppose a researchers publishes their work but someone accuses them of falsifying or misrepresenting the data in some way. How could the researcher show that they generated the data how and when they said they did.
There is a lot of sensitivity – particularly in some disciplines – about difficulties in reproducing findings published in the scholarly literature.
The UK Reproducibility Network is one response to the ‘reproducibility crisis’. It started in Bristol but there are ‘nodes’ at several Universities, including the University of Leeds.
The UKRN has also encouraged something called ReproducibiliTea – which is a journal club aimed at PGRs and Early Career Researchers. The network meets monthly to discuss topics around reproducible research.
Meetings are held on EBL Level 13.
Proper use of PIDs supports:
Discovery of resources
Citation and reuse
Collaboration across facilities, disciplines, institutions, and countries
Credit - people and facilities can be reliably associated and acknowledged
Evaluation of impact through citation tracking
Trust and verification - accurate identification builds trust
Privacy - accurate identification allows privacy preferences to be supported
Efficiency and scalability - through increased interoperability
Innovation
The main benefits of using PIDs vary across different communities - based on the groupings for the Knowledge Hub we have summarised them below.
For researchers the main benefit of PIDs are the discoverability and profile building opportunities offered. It is also easier to gain credits for work undertaken in an unambiguous way.
For librarians and repository managers the longevity and trustworthy nature of PIDs is a large benefit as well as the opportunity of assessment.
For developers PIDs make it easier to interoperate across systems, their trustworthy nature and metadata requirements make this interoperability easier.
For funders and policy makers PIDs make it easier to track research outputs and understand the relationships between researchers and different types of research outputs.
For publishers PIDs improve the trustworthiness of their resources, and provide an interoperable framework across published research.
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