Open@ed [Research]

What does Open Science,

Open Scholarship look like?

Robin Rice, Data Librarian

EDINA and Data Library, IS

Edinburgh: 9 March 2015

Open Science, Open Scholarship

• Open Access & Data Sharing

• Code Sharing & Reproducible Research

• Networking & Citizen Science

Open Access & Data Sharing

Data sharing policies

Publicly Funded Research

Should Be Made Publicly Available.

- OECD declaration, 2007

- Followed by research

funders

- Then by institutions

Open Access & Data Sharing

Open Access publications becoming norm

• Monographs still the exception

– (Pressure on Humanities?)

• Institutional support for Green and Gold OA

• Preprints & embargoes help speed up

dissemination

• Publishing not yet “Beyond the PDF”

Open Access & Data Sharing

What’s different about data (sharing) ?

• A researcher’s working capital

• ‘Ownership’, rights problematic

• Curation required for re-use

• Citation non-standard

• Career rewards uncertain

Open Access & Data Sharing

Benefits of data sharing

• More eyeballs (scrutiny) on your work

• Publish for posterity

• Deposit for safekeeping

• Sharing goes both ways

Codesharing and

Reproducible Research

3 R’s of sharing

• Re-use

• Replication (independent

verification of findings)

• Reproducibility (analysis

can be repeated using

same code & data)

Networking and Citizen Science

Benefits of citizen science

• Public engagement

• Crowdfunding

• Data gathering, cleaning

• Citizen scientists (informed citizenry)

Title goes here

Science 2.0 = Open Science

• EC consultation on ‘Science 2.0’- Sep ‘14

• Social media for scientists & scholars

• Working transparently: “This is what I’m

working on,” getting early feedback

• eg MyExperiment, Seek4Science

Networking & Citizen Science

Why do Open Science?

Alice Williamson - Chemistry Department,

University of Sydney (statement for the

OpenAIRE Conference 2012)

https://vimeo.com/53506533