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A presentation used to promote open access, data and textbooks at UPEI during Open Access week.
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OPEN ACCESS @ UPEI: 2013Mark Leggott, Robertson Library
TOPICS
๏ Open Foundations
๏ IslandScholar and Open Access
๏ Open Data
๏ Open Textbooks
CONTEXT
๏ Beall’s List creator sued by OMICS
๏ Dale Askey sued by Edwin Mellen Press
๏ Publishers “double-dipping” practices even when faced with mandates
๏ Rising cost of journals
OA ON TRIAL?๏ Science issue features an article by John
Bohannon - OA journals + bogus article
๏ Selected “underclass of journals”, a number of which accepted the article
๏ Some belonged to publishers like Sage, Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer and others
๏ Suggestion of article was OA encourages
CORE OF OA๏ Bohannon article is an indictment of
shoddy peer review and business practice
๏ Nothing to do with OA
๏ OA is a philosophy designed to make advances in research available to all, regardless of $$, not a publishing process
F1000RESEARCH๏ New effort by creator of BioMed Central
example of new approach to peer review
๏ Instant publication (internal review)
๏ Open peer review
๏ Open comments
๏ Release of full data set
VALUE OF OA๏ Research made more widely available
๏ Increasing citations/impact factor
๏ Facilitate interdisciplinarity & collaboration
๏ Responds to “public good” argument for research outputs in general
UPEI OA POLICY
๏ Approved in 2012, encourages scholars:
๏ to deposit research output in IslandScholar and retain copyright when possible
๏ to consider open access options
๏ to deposit research data in a VRE
ISLANDSCHOLAR๏ UPEI’s institutional repository
๏ provides access to scholar’s citations and where available, article/data
๏ currently has 8,300+ citations
๏ facilitates deposit under OA Policy
๏ Islandora system is the foundation
DRAFT TRI-AGENCY OAP๏ SSHRC/CIHR/NSERC have released a
Draft OA Policy - Sept 1, 2014 proposes:
๏ journal publications only
๏ REQUIREMENT to deposit
๏ CIHR open data REQUIREMENT
OPEN DATA๏ “trust, but verify” core of research
๏ Increasing interest in having access to data, collaborators and funders
๏ Open Data generally implies open and unfettered access to data
๏ Providing controlled access is also possible via systems like UPEI’s VRE
REPRODUCIBILITY๏ Increasingly of interest, especially in
disciplines like health
๏ Goal is to provide data and all information needed to duplicate research
๏ One interest is responding to recent studies that suggests vast majority of research is NOT reproducible
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REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH
REPRODUCIBLE NOT
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NEGATIVE RESULTS PUBLISHED
1990 2013
CHANGING LANDSCAPES
Economist: How science goes wrong. October 18, 2013.
VRE SERVICE
๏ Can provide range of service from online presence to data repository with backup and preservation
๏ UPEI now able to assign DOI’s for data
๏ Linkages to IslandScholar records
๏ Increase discoverability and citations
DATACITE DOIS๏ Unique identifiers for datasets, provide:
๏ easy reuse/verification of data
๏ impact of data can be tracked
๏ facilitates recognition of data producers
๏ Links back to scholar record/IR
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
๏ Tri-agency+CFI+GenomeC consultation
๏ proposing a collective realignment of funding policies that will help promote excellence in data-management practices in agency-funded projects
๏ Responses accepted up to Dec 16/2013
OPEN TEXTBOOKS๏ Recent effort to facilitate discussion of
making open textbooks available at UPEI
๏ 1st-year programs a focus, all of interest
๏ Business, Biology, Chemistry, RS
๏ 2-4th-year courses also considered
๏ Initial savings to students $30,000+
DISCUSSION
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