Sustainable, Successful
Open Data Publication
Brian Hole, Founder and CEO
9th International Digital Curation Conference, San Francisco
February 25 2014
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About Ubiquity Press
Mission

To return control of publishing to university and society
presses, providing them with the infrastructure and support to
advance publishing in the interest of researchers.
Background
 Spun out of University College London in 2012
 Researcher-led
 Extensive publishing background as well
(BioMed Central, PLoS, Elsevier, IOP)
 Based in London
 Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, data, software, ….

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The Social Contract
of Science
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Dissemination

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Validation

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Further development

Scientific Malpractice
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Results
Data
Software
Hardware, wetware…

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The basics of the model
1) Low barrier data publication
 Low APC: $40
 Data papers are short
 Peer review needs to be quick and objective
2) Online authoring
 Lower cost (straight to XML)
 Encourages shorter form
3) Open access only (CC-BY)
4) The publisher is not the repository

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Repositories

Modified from: XKCD

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Peer review
1. The paper contents
a. The methods section of the paper must provide
sufficient detail that a reader can understand how
the resource was created.
b. The resource must be correctly described.
c. The reuse section must provide concrete and useful
suggestions for reuse of the reuse.
2. The deposited resource
a. The repository must be suitable for resource
and have a sustainability model.
b. Open license permits unrestricted access (e.g. CC0),
or access guaranteed if criteria met (must qualify)
c. A version in an open, non-proprietary format.
d. Labeled in such a way that a 3rd party can make
sense of it.
e. Must be actionable.
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Integrating data publication within universities

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A global data journal network

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Sustainable, Successful Open Data Publication

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Important that research money well spentLow cost especially impt for long tailCost of platformsLack of other legacy systems
  • #4 This is for Stuart from the Royal Society
  • #5 All factors of successful data publicationNeed to ensure authors motivated
  • #10 Researchers understand value of papersThey know how to cite themPublishers won’t strip them out
  • #11 Aim is that is quick and objective.Building community of reviewers now.Harder for software as need to get it running.
  • #12 This is an example of an OHD data paperNote the social media activity on the left hand side and the article metrics on the right hand side
  • #13 De-risking business for university – sharing the business model.Only charge is APCsImportant part is providing a MJ for each university.
  • #14 Searching across university datasetsSharing data reviewersCascading content