This document discusses the importance of open science and provides recommendations for making research more open, reproducible and accessible. It notes that reproducible research remains a challenge, and that open science has benefits like improving citations, driving further studies, and ensuring ethical and proper use of funds. It recommends using open source software and licenses, uploading datasets and materials to sites like Zenodo for free DOIs, publishing preprints on arXiv, and sharing papers on ResearchGate to promote open access. The overall goal is to make studies fully open through simple and free methods.

1. Your research as Open Science
Dmitry Ustalov

2. Outline
• The Problem
• Why it is important?
• Open Software
• Open Data
• Open Access
• DOI
• Conclusion

3. The Problem
• Reproducible research is still a challenge!
– 10% of cancer studies (Reuters, 2012)
– 21% of oncology studies (Nature, 2011)
– 25% of CS studies (UA, 2014)
– etc.
• This is horrible.

4. Why it is important?
It is
egoistic. Improve your own citation index.
altruistic. Your results may drive the studies of
other people.
ethical. Do not waste the people’s money if you
have a government grant.
proper. Clarification and verification of your
approach.
redudant. Backups!

5. Open Science is just a term.
Let’s use it for the greater good.

6. Open Software
• Do not hesitate to publish your source code.
• Do use GitHub, Bitbucket, Assembla.
– https://github.com/
– https://bitbucket.org/
– https://assembla.com/
• Provide a link to your source code in your
paper.
• Licenses: GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT.

9. Open Data
• How to clarify that your results have been
obtained not by a chance?
• How to reuse your results?
• Please, upload somewhere your datasets,
dictionaries, corpora, etc.
• Provide a link.
• Licenses: Creative Commons, GFDL.

12. Open Access
• Before submitting an article, check the
copyright form presented by a publisher.
• Sometimes you are allowed to publish
preprints (and sometimes not.)
• Upload your preprint to arXiv.org!

14. Open Access (cont.)
• Sometimes an author is allowed to share a
copy of the final paper in the manuscript
form under non-commercial terms.
• Use ResearchGate to ask and to share
papers with other researchers.
– https://researchgate.net/
• Yes, this is yet another boring social
network. Just disable notifications.

16. DOI
• A digital object identifier is a unique
identifier of an electronic document.
• You may cite your software and data when
they have an assigned DOI.
• This service was paid-only until Zenodo has
appeared.
– Yes, it is possible to get a free DOI.
– Upload your outputs to https://zenodo.org/

21. Now, make your study open.
It is simple, free and just awesome.

22. Please.

23. Thank you!
• Dmitry Ustalov
– http://ustalov.name/en/
– http://ustalov.imm.uran.ru/
– http://nlpub.ru/
– dmitry@eveel.ru