A paper presented at a Wits University research policy seminar. At the end of the day, the university signed the Berlin Declaration and announced that it would be adopting open access as a core component of its new research strategy.
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
Big Data for the Social Sciences - David De Roure - Jisc Digital Festival 2014Jisc
The analysis of government data, data held by business, the web, social science survey data will support new research directions and findings. Big Data is one of David Willetts’ 8 great technologies, and in order to secure the UK’s competitive advantage new investments have been made by the Economic Social Science Research Council ( ESRC) in Big Data, for example the Business Datasafe and Understanding Populations investments. In this session the benefits of the use of Big Data in social science , and the ESRCs Big Data strategy will be explained by Professor David De Roure.of the Oxford e-Research Centre and advisor to the ESRC.
The Next Decade of Open Access: Moving Beyond Traditional Forms and Functions...Leslie Chan
Keynote presentation at the 3º Simpósio Brasileiro de Comunicação Científica: Perspectivas em Acesso Aberto, http://www.sbcc.ufsc.br 05 e 06 de junho de 2012, Florianópolis (SC) – Brasil.
2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a declaration that provided a formal definition of Open Access (OA) and a set of strategies for archiving OA. This talk begins with a review of the major milestones of achievement over the last decade, both globally and with specific attention to Brazil and Latin America, followed by identification of key areas of research communication that remained to be improved. These areas include infrastructural development for e-research, more diverse and transparent metrics for evaluating scholarship, funding and institutional policy alignment, and new forms of scholarly practices and representation. Examples from these areas will be highlighted, with emphasis on areas of collaboration between information scientists and scholars from various fields.
In scientific communication, we observe a complex interaction of several stakeholder groups, each of which have distinct interests, strategies and approaches for Open Access and Open Data. The German government initiated a “Commission for the Future of the Information Infrastructure” (KII) in Germany. In this commission, most of the stakeholders are working together in order to design a future scenario for the supply of scientific information. The KII’s evaluation and recommendations for Open Access as well as research data will be particularly highly recognized and will significantly influence Open Access and Open Data developments in Germany.
I will outline the current situation in Germany – players and their interactions in terms of Open Access and Open Data – and present two initiatives and their work in detail. One of them, the KII process, will show the official site, the other one will show the grassroots site of the story.
The SDGs represent challenges in advancing the broad access to information agenda because of the divergent goals and proliferating targets and indicators. At the same time, the broadness of many of the goals presents opportunities for the agenda, particularly in the form of open access and open science, to embed itself at the core, thus allowing concrete actions and policies to be formulated in order to achieve tangible development outcomes. I will focus in particular on Goal 9 (“Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”) and argue that information and knowledge are essential infrastructure needed to build local research capacity which are in turn the foundation for sustainable development. The growing understanding of the importance of sharing methods and results throughout the research life cycle further demands the need for appropriate infrastructure. Examples of such infrastructure, such as data and publication repositories, already exist at some local level, but they are often fragmented and lack adequate resources. It is therefore important for FAO/IFLA/COAR to continue to advocate for the development of knowledge infrastructure and to ensure that policies are in place to support their long term sustainability.
Presentation at the Open Knowledge Festival: Open Research and Education Stream, 20 September 2012, Helsinki; also
Presentation at the DINI-Jahrestagung - Bausteine für Open Science, 24 September 2012, Karlsruhe;
also Belgian Open Access Week: Open Access to Excellence in Research, 22 October 2012, Brussels.
Implementing Open Access: Effective Management of Your Research DataMartin Hamilton
The slides from my session with the DCC's Martin Donnelly at the Understanding ModernGov "Implementing Open Access" event in June 2014. Our talk is all about the support available from Jisc and the DCC to help you manage your research data, and potential future initiatives that might help institutions to handle the move to "open science".
Science Diplomacy from a Journalist's PerspectiveCRDF Global
SciDev.Net Director David Dickson. Presented at CRDF Global’s Science Diplomacy Boot camp for Journalists; Thursday July 14, at the New York Academy of Sciences.
A partnership of funders invites applications for proposals to support networking of researchers from different disciplines relating to the topic of decision making under uncertainty. The theme of the call builds on a number of events held by the funding partners and Research Councils UK (RCUK).
There is a budget of up to £750,000 to support this activity, and we expect to fund a maximum of two networks, which will include support for feasibility projects, for two years.
Proposals will need to consider & seek to involve a wide breadth of relevant communities and build on current RCUK funded activities (see Annex I for examples).
The purpose of this call is to develop & build widespread linkages between disciplines related to decision making under uncertainty and grow a multidisciplinary community in this space. The network(s) will be expected to work with user organisations (policy-makers, industry, and/or civil society organisations) to analyse real-world systems and identify where multi-disciplinary research can develop new approaches to improve decision-making under uncertainty.
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
Open Access Week 2009 University of the Western CapeEve Gray
A seminar on the strategic advantages of open access for university researchers and their institutions. The University of the Western Cape, Open Access Week, October 2009
The Next Decade of Open Access: Moving Beyond Traditional Forms and Functions...Leslie Chan
Keynote presentation at the 3º Simpósio Brasileiro de Comunicação Científica: Perspectivas em Acesso Aberto, http://www.sbcc.ufsc.br 05 e 06 de junho de 2012, Florianópolis (SC) – Brasil.
2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, a declaration that provided a formal definition of Open Access (OA) and a set of strategies for archiving OA. This talk begins with a review of the major milestones of achievement over the last decade, both globally and with specific attention to Brazil and Latin America, followed by identification of key areas of research communication that remained to be improved. These areas include infrastructural development for e-research, more diverse and transparent metrics for evaluating scholarship, funding and institutional policy alignment, and new forms of scholarly practices and representation. Examples from these areas will be highlighted, with emphasis on areas of collaboration between information scientists and scholars from various fields.
In scientific communication, we observe a complex interaction of several stakeholder groups, each of which have distinct interests, strategies and approaches for Open Access and Open Data. The German government initiated a “Commission for the Future of the Information Infrastructure” (KII) in Germany. In this commission, most of the stakeholders are working together in order to design a future scenario for the supply of scientific information. The KII’s evaluation and recommendations for Open Access as well as research data will be particularly highly recognized and will significantly influence Open Access and Open Data developments in Germany.
I will outline the current situation in Germany – players and their interactions in terms of Open Access and Open Data – and present two initiatives and their work in detail. One of them, the KII process, will show the official site, the other one will show the grassroots site of the story.
The SDGs represent challenges in advancing the broad access to information agenda because of the divergent goals and proliferating targets and indicators. At the same time, the broadness of many of the goals presents opportunities for the agenda, particularly in the form of open access and open science, to embed itself at the core, thus allowing concrete actions and policies to be formulated in order to achieve tangible development outcomes. I will focus in particular on Goal 9 (“Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”) and argue that information and knowledge are essential infrastructure needed to build local research capacity which are in turn the foundation for sustainable development. The growing understanding of the importance of sharing methods and results throughout the research life cycle further demands the need for appropriate infrastructure. Examples of such infrastructure, such as data and publication repositories, already exist at some local level, but they are often fragmented and lack adequate resources. It is therefore important for FAO/IFLA/COAR to continue to advocate for the development of knowledge infrastructure and to ensure that policies are in place to support their long term sustainability.
Presentation at the Open Knowledge Festival: Open Research and Education Stream, 20 September 2012, Helsinki; also
Presentation at the DINI-Jahrestagung - Bausteine für Open Science, 24 September 2012, Karlsruhe;
also Belgian Open Access Week: Open Access to Excellence in Research, 22 October 2012, Brussels.
Implementing Open Access: Effective Management of Your Research DataMartin Hamilton
The slides from my session with the DCC's Martin Donnelly at the Understanding ModernGov "Implementing Open Access" event in June 2014. Our talk is all about the support available from Jisc and the DCC to help you manage your research data, and potential future initiatives that might help institutions to handle the move to "open science".
Science Diplomacy from a Journalist's PerspectiveCRDF Global
SciDev.Net Director David Dickson. Presented at CRDF Global’s Science Diplomacy Boot camp for Journalists; Thursday July 14, at the New York Academy of Sciences.
A partnership of funders invites applications for proposals to support networking of researchers from different disciplines relating to the topic of decision making under uncertainty. The theme of the call builds on a number of events held by the funding partners and Research Councils UK (RCUK).
There is a budget of up to £750,000 to support this activity, and we expect to fund a maximum of two networks, which will include support for feasibility projects, for two years.
Proposals will need to consider & seek to involve a wide breadth of relevant communities and build on current RCUK funded activities (see Annex I for examples).
The purpose of this call is to develop & build widespread linkages between disciplines related to decision making under uncertainty and grow a multidisciplinary community in this space. The network(s) will be expected to work with user organisations (policy-makers, industry, and/or civil society organisations) to analyse real-world systems and identify where multi-disciplinary research can develop new approaches to improve decision-making under uncertainty.
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
Open Access Week 2009 University of the Western CapeEve Gray
A seminar on the strategic advantages of open access for university researchers and their institutions. The University of the Western Cape, Open Access Week, October 2009
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Presentation during the 14th Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference and African Open Science Platform (AOSP)/Research Data Alliance (RDA) Workshop in Accra, Ghana, 7-8 June 2017.
Today research visibility is very important in an otherwise crowded digital environment. Here the concept of visibility generated and visibility earned is explained.
From Open Data to Open Science, by Geoffrey BoultonLEARN Project
1st LEARN Workshop. Embedding Research Data as part of the research cycle. 29 Jan 2016. Presentation by Geoffrey Boulton, University of Edinburgh & CODATA
Curating the Scholarly Record: Data Management and Research LibrariesKeith Webster
Presentation at the National Data Service Conference "New Frontiers in Data Discovery: Collaboration with Research Libraries.", Pittsburgh, 20 October 2016
The State of Open Data Report by @figshare.
A selection of analyses and articles about open data, curated by Figshare
Foreword by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
OCTOBER 2016
South African National Library and Information Consortium Conference - Disruption in the Library, teh Laboratory, the Classroom
Presentation on the neo-colonial origins of the commercial journal system
OA 2013 - A Broader Vision of Open Access for Development Eve Gray
A paper delivered at the UNISA Open Access Seminar, 23 October 2013.
The paper argues that in a developing world context, and particularly in Africa, the narrow focus of conventional OA arguments on journal articles and an emphasis on the impact factor has been counterproductive. A wider approach, incorporating transformative uses of scholarly outputs for policy development and teaching and learning would be more appropriate.
A view from the south: the perils and promises of digital media for African p...Eve Gray
Paper delivered at the International Publishers Association Congress, Cape Town, 2012. The congress focused on 'Publishing in a New Area' and this presentation aimed to present the issues from a South African perspective
Presentation at the launch of the third series of workshops for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme at the University of Namibia in June 2012
Publishing Development Research and Adding ValueEve Gray
A presentation made at the UNESCO workshop on Open Access in Africa, Pretoria, 22-23 November 2010, co-sponsored by the Academy of Science of South Africa and EiFL
Publishing and Alternative Licensing Models in Africa (PALM Africa) was a two-
country research programme conducted in South Africa and Uganda, using action
research to explore the potential of open access and flexible and open intellectual property
licences with the aim of enhancing the impact of African publishing.
The premise of the PALM intervention was that in Africa, which needs the
development impact of knowledge production more than any other continent, the
conventional book trade – both commercial and not-for-profit – faces serious barriers
in reaching readers and creating sustainable business models.
Creative Commons Workshop for FAIFE, Bloemfontein 2009:Eve Gray
A presentation on Creative Commons licences for a workshop of the Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) at the annual conference of the Library Association of South Africa (LIASA), September 2009.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
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South African open access policy - a comparative overview
1. The policy context: South African
and UK approaches to open access
Open Access, Policy and Practice in
Research
SPARC Seminar, Wits University
9 November 2012
13. The message
• There will be pressure for national and
institutional OA policy
• The ‘translational’ potential of research and its
development impact will be on the agenda
• More open Creative Commons licences are
becoming the norm – CC-BY
16. The Impact Factor
excludes developing
country research…
AttributionNoncommercial Some rights reserved by emily_mas
17. World Research Publication - 2001
http://www.worldmapper.org
2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark
Newman (University of Michigan).
18.
19. DHET – Green Paper on Post-School
Education
• OERs advocated
• Government funded open textbooks
• Openness in distance education
• Will OA be part of the White Paper?
• Need for ‘an overarching policy framework on
IP and copyright in higher education’
47. Our universities, in particular, should be
directing their research focus to address the
development and social needs of our
communities. The impact of their research
should be measured by how much difference it
makes to the needs of our communities, rather
than by just how many international citations
researchers receive in their publications.
Blade Nzimande, SA Minster of Higher Education and Training, Women in Science
Awards. 2010
54. …beyond journal
articles…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/ CC attribution licence
55. The Finch Report
…the infrastructure of subject and institutional
repositories should be developed so that they
play a valuable role complementary to formal
publishing, particularly in providing access to
research data and to grey literature, and in
digital preservation
56.
57. … moving beyond the impact factor
with new journal models and
altmetrics?
58.
59. Will WB and FAO style initiatives, taken
together with the Finch
recommendations on repositories, add
traction to national policy
development for development-
focused research?
61. Do we want to advise our colleagues in the
developing world to replicate a journal
system that we think is on the way out? Or
do we want to encourage them to adopt
something that is far more current–that is
cutting edge and is going to lead the way?
Leslie Chan – Interview with Hassan Masum: Center for Global
Health R&D Assessment
62. Eve Gray
Scholarly Communication in Africa
Programme
University of Cape Town
Centre for Educational Technology
IP Law and Policy Research Unit
University of Cape Town
http://www.gray-area.co.za
Twitter: graysouth
Editor's Notes
Michael Mabeabd Francis Gurry – OA on the move
Access to publicly funded research – read in the UN Declaration rights to scientific knoweldge,
Open innovation needs to provide a batter balance – a counter to maximalist, industry-driven approach. Legislative confusion - IPR Act in SA Use of ‘outputs’ as measures of research effectiveness – patents and journal articles, with a presumption that the ISI is the standard
2011 – November Endorsed by member nationsThere will probably be regional workshops The IDS online dialogue
OA for development impact, ‘transformational research
The geopolitics of the impact factor and the marginalisation of developing country research Increasingly, I see this as the real problem, the single factor that most needs dealing with, largely because it creates an impenetrable barrier between strategy and reward systems The Lancet and the difficulty of including African authors – yet 650,000 people in Africa die of malaria every year
This has been the default position and has been heavily promoted for the developing world in the form of: Institutional repositories (the most popular solution offered to African universities). Promoted as a way of making articles in ISI journals sharable and increasing their impact. Also as a way of providing exposure for articles in developing country journals in the rest of the world – Bioline international – gets 5 million full text downloads across the system – research exposed South-South and South-North – increases exposure for issues that do not get into the major Northern journals Subject repositoriesRegional or world archivesThis does increase reach and impact, Problems – capacity for institutional repositories – too many have very little in them, or have effectively collapsed as a result of insitutionalcapcity to maintain them.
The fact that the Finch report opted for publication in open access journals has created a furore particularly among the supporters of the green route as a way of changing the subscription journal system. Do the journals actually see green route article archives as a threat to their business. In many cases, perhaps not, as what the journal publishes is the article of record. CfArXiv, where journal articles are published as a matter of record and to earn prestige – not necessarily for reading
Is the final version, with edited text, complete diagrams, etc. If it is to be cited or referred to, this is the version that needs to be used. For developing countries offers participation rather than only accessI would argue that the commercial journals are not really concerned about green route deposits, as it is the version of record that needs to be subscribed to and referenced.
The EC links this to regional research infrastructure development that in turn supports communication – a lesson for SADC? The problem in the South – research funds are limited, there is a very high level of dependency on donor funding, which is short term, Where does the money come from? Will a more open system that allows government to get a comprehensive view of what is being achieved lead to more investment?
The EC links this to regional research infrastructure development that in turn supports communication – a lesson for SADC? The problem in the South – research funds are limited, there is a very high level of dependency on donor funding, which is short term, Where does the money come from? Will a more open system that allows government to get a comprehensive view of what is being achieved lead to more investment?
This has been the default position and has been heavily promoted for the developing world in the form of: Institutional repositories (the most popular solution offered to African universities). Promoted as a way of making articles in ISI journals sharable and increasing their impact. Also as a way of providing exposure for articles in developing country journals in the rest of the world – Bioline international – gets 5 million full text downloads across the system – research exposed South-South and South-North – increases exposure for issues that do not get into the major Northern journals Subject repositoriesRegional or world archivesThis does increase reach and impact, Problems – capacity for institutional repositories – too many have very little in them, or have effectively collapsed as a result of insitutionalcapcity to maintain them.
The geopolitics of the impact factor and the marginalisation of developing country research Increasingly, I see this as the real problem, the single factor that most needs dealing with, largely because it creates an impenetrable barrier between strategy and reward systems