The benefits & practice of openness Sarah Jones Digital Curation Centre, University of Glasgow sarah.jones@glasgow.ac.uk Twitter: @sjDCC Boo(s)tcamp Open Science, KU Leuven, 24th October www.kuleuven.be/research/bootcamp What does it mean to be open? Image by biblioteekje CC-BY-NC-SA www.flickr.com/photos/biblioteekje/3992172265 What is open science? “science carried out and communicated in a manner which allows others to contribute, collaborate and add to the research effort, with all kinds of data, results and protocols made freely available at different stages of the research process.” Research Information Network, Open Science case studies www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/data-management-and-curation/ open-science-case-studies Open methods • Documenting and sharing workflows and methods • Sharing code and tools to allow others to reproduce work • Using web based tools to facilitate collaboration and interaction from the outside world • Open netbook science – “when there is a URL to a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines.” http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/open-notebook-science.ht ml Open access to publications • Free, immediate, online access to the results of research • Make sure anyone can access your papers – Gold route: paying APCs to ensure publishers makes copy open – Green route: self-archiving Open Access copy in repository • Find out what your publisher allows on SHERPA RoMEO – www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Open data  make your stuff available on the Web (whatever format) under an open licence  make it available as structured data (e.g. Excel instead of a scan of a table)  use non-proprietary formats (e.g. CSV instead of Excel)  use URIs to denote things, so that people can point at your stuff  link your data to other data to provide context Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for five star open data - http://5stardata.info “Open data and content can be freely used, modified and shared by anyone for any purpose” http://opendefinition.org Design Experiment AnalysisPublication Release Openness at every stage Open science image CC BY-SA 3.0 by Greg Emmerich www.flickr.com/photos/gemmerich/6365692655 www.myexperiment.org www.taverna.org.uk www.labtrove.org impactstory.org www.datacite.org https://github.com www.sherpa.ac.uk/rome o http://openwetware.org Why should you be open? Image by wonderwebby CC-BY-NC-SA www.flickr.com/photos/wonderwebby/2723279491 It’s part of good research practice Science as an open enterprise https://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/Report “Much of the remarkable growth of scientific understanding in recent centuries is due to open practices; open communication and deliberation sit at the heart of scientific practice.” Royal Society report calls for ‘intelligent openness’ whereby data are accessible, intelligible, assessable and usable. Some benefits of openness • You can access relevant literature – not behind pay walls • Ensures research is transparent and reproducible • Increased visibility, usage and impact of your work • New collaborations and research partnerships • Ensure long-term access to your outputs • Help increase the efficiency of research Saving wasted time OA helps to reduce time spent finding/accessing material: “If around 60 minutes were characteristic for researchers (the average time spent trying to access the last research article they had difficulty accessing), then in the current environment the time spent dealing with research article access difficulties might be costing around DKK 540 million (EUR 72 million) per year among specialist researchers in Denmark alone.” Access to research and technical information in Denmark, Houghton, Swan & Brown (2011) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22603 Cut down on academic fraud www.nature.com/news/2011/111101/full/479015a.html Validation of results www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-error-george-osborne-au sterity “It was a mistake in a spreadsheet that could have been easily overlooked: a few rows left out of an equation to average the values in a column. The spreadsheet was used to draw the conclusion of an influential 2010 economics paper: that public debt of more than 90% of GDP slows down growth. This conclusion was later cited by the International Monetary Fund and the UK Treasury to justify programmes of austerity that have arguably led to riots, poverty and lost jobs.” Acceleration of the research process “As more papers are deposited and more scientists use the repository, the time between an article being deposited and being cited has been shrinking dramatically, year upon year. This is important for research uptake and progress, because it means that in this area of research, where articles are made available at – or frequently before – publication, the research cycle is accelerating.” Open Access: Why should we have it? Alma Swan www.keyperspectives.co.uk More scientific breakthroughs www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 “It was unbelievable. Its not science the way most of us have practiced in our careers. But we all realised that we would never get biomarkers unless all of us parked our egos and intellectual property noses outside the door and agreed that all of our data would be public immediately.” Dr John Trojanowski, University of Pennsylvania A citation advantage A study that analysed the citation counts of 10,555 papers on gene expression studies that created microarray data, showed: “studies that made data available in a public repository received 9% more citations than similar studies for which the data was not made available”  Data reuse and the open data citation advantage, Piwowar, H. & Vision, T. https://peerj.com/articles/175 Increased use and economic benefit Up to 2008 Sold through the US Geological Survey for US$600 per scene Sales of 19,000 scenes per year Annual revenue of $11.4 million Since 2009 Freely available over the internet Google Earth now uses the images Transmission of 2,100,000 scenes per year. Estimated to have created value for the environmental management industry of $935 million, with direct benefit of more than $100 million per year to the US economy Has stimulated the development of applications from a large number of companies worldwide The case of NASA Landsat satellite imagery of the Earth’s surface: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83394&src=v e But there are also opportunity costs By Emilio Bruna http://brunalab.org/blog/2014/09/04/the-opportu nity-cost-of-my-openscience-was-35-hours-690 For his most recent paper: 1. Double checking the main dataset and reformatting to submit to Dryad: 5 hours 2. Creating complementary file and preparing metadata: 3 hours 3. Submission of these two files and the metadata to Dryad: 45 minutes 4. Preparing a map of the locations: 1 hour 5. Submission of map to Figshare: 15 minutes 6. Cleaning up and documenting the code, uploading it to GitHub: 25 hours 7. Cost of archiving in Dryad: US$90 8. Page Charges: $600 So what needs to change? Conclusions from Emilio Bruna: • Develop a better system of incentives from the community for archiving data and code • Teach our students how to do this NOW - it’s much easier if you develop good habits early • Minimise the actual and opportunity costs We need to stop telling people “You should” and get better at telling people “Here’s how” How to practice open science Image by Paul Downey CC-BY www.flickr.com/photos/psd/3925801816 Conducting science in the open: UsefulChem http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/EXP284 Collaboration & sharing: MyExperiment www.myexperiment.org/workflows/16.h tml Open access publication Immediate open access (via publisher) Pay Article Processing Charge (APC) - if required GOLD OA ROUTE IF OPTION EXISTS e.g. a ‘hybrid’ journal (a subscription-based journal that has a paid open access option) Immediate open access (via publisher) Pay Article Processing Charge (APC) Self-archive in a repository, based on publisher policy. Immediate or delayed open access, depending on publisher’s policy. Search for a repository http://opendoar.org GREEN OA ROUTE Publish in a subscription-base d journal Publish in an open access journal Researcher decides where to publish Check SHERPA RoMEO to see what OA and self-archiving options are available www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Sherpah RoMEO Deposit in your local repository! • Speak to the library and deposit in Lirias - https://lirias.kuleuven.be • Consider other relevant repositories for your field too e.g. Arxiv - http://arxiv.org • Check OpenDOAR for examples - http:// www.opendoar.org OpenAIRE http://vimeo.com/108790101 Open Access Infrastructure for research in Europe aggregates data on OA publications mines & enriches it content by linking thing together provides services & APIs e.g. to generate publication lists www.openaire.eu How to make data open? 1. Choose your dataset(s)  – What can you may open? You may need to revisit this step if you encounter problems later. 2. Apply an open license  – Determine what IP exists. Apply a suitable licence e.g. CC-BY 3. Make the data available  – Provide the data in a suitable format. Use repositories.   4. Make it discoverable  – Post on the web, register in catalogues… https://okfn.org www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/license-research-data Licensing research data Outlines pros and cons of each approach and gives practical advice on how to implement your licence CREATIVE COMMONS LIMITATIONS NC Non-Commercial What counts as commercial? SA Share Alike Reduces interoperability ND No Derivatives Severely restricts use Horizon 2020 Open Access guidelines point to: or Potential repositories http://databib.org http://service.re3data.org/sear ch Zenodo • OpenAIRE-CERN joint effort • Multidisciplinary repository • Multiple data types ● Publications ● Long tail of research data • Citable data (DOI) • Links funding, publications, data & software www.zenodo.org Metadata standards Use relevant standards for interoperability www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards Thanks – any questions? Follow us on Twitter: @fosterscience and #fosteropenscience FOSTER training events and materials: www.fosteropenscience.eu/events