Digital Academia
The Future of Research
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“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve
easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for.
That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John
Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D
expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded
research freely available to the public within one year of publication and
requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data
resulting from federally funded scientific research.”
February 22nd 2013
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“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than
incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical
collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of
work under NSF grants”
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4
“NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the
acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset”
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharingdata_sharing_guidance.htm#time
“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution”
http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf
“But taxpayers who are paying for that
research will want to see something
back. Directly – through open access
to results and data. And indirectly –
through making science work better
for all of us.
That’s why we will require open
access to all publications stemming
from EU-funded research. That’s why
we will progressively open access to
the research data, too. And why we’re
asking national funding bodies to do
the same.”
Neelie Kroes.
Vice President for the Eurpoean Commission
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The Open Academic Tidal Wave
1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded
research
4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded
research
5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
The Open Academic Tidal Wave
1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly
funded research
2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly
funded research
3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded
research
4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded
research
5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of
publicly funded research
6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of
publicly funded research
What is figshare?
A cloud based research data management
system for academics and administrators:
Manage their research
outputs privately and
securely, with controlled
collaborative spaces
Public repository of all
research outputs from an
institution, with impact and
usage metrics
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Some of the publishers we work with
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Why?
- Research Integrity
- Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
- Funders’ Policies
- As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of your
research data on figshare can help promote your research
and raise your profile
- It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research data
is associated with increased citation rate’
- Simplicity
- Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.
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Some basic things that need to happen…
APIs are essential
Open access is essential
Persistent identifiers are essential
Persistent identifiers are essential
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Institutions
Generating the world’s knowledge
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"Products of research are not just publications.”
NSF senior policy specialist Beth Strausser.
Biographical Sketch(es), has been revised to rename the “Publications”
section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly.
13 January 2013: "National Science Foundation’s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions” Chapter II.C.2.f(i)(c),
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Advocacy
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Thanks for your time.
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