Open scholarship [a FOSTER open science talk]

Open scholarship [a FOSTER open science talk]

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  The Open Advantagefor Early Career Researchers by Dr Ross Mounce @rmounce http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3520-2046 www.okfn.org
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  A bit aboutmyself, for context... I’m an evolutionary biologist into fossils & phylogenetics * Vocal advocate for open scholarship (not just access!) * Awarded Panton Fellowship 2012-13 * Submitted PhD @UniOfBath Oct 2013 * Now BBSRC-funded Postdoc at Bath, text & data mining * On Organising Committee of: http://www.opencon2014.org/ (2013) (Washington, D.C., November 2014)
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  Why do Icare about Open Access? The abundance of paywalls seriously obstructs my ability to do rigorous research. I believe charitably and publicly-funded research should be available to all, to read and re-use, at no extra cost. (~80% of academic research is public-funded) I want my research to be read and re-used by others, rather than locked-away behind a paywall.
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  Why do Icare about Open Data? In my fields (palaeo, phylogenetics) data sharing is improving but still poor: ~4-16% of papers publicly share usable data. I believe charitably and publicly-funded research outputs including data & software should be available to all, to read and re-use, at no extra cost. (~80% of academic research is public-funded) I want my research data & scripts to be re-used & cited by others, rather than languishing on my hard drives.
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  Avoid the shame of having your work paywalled! $113 !!! 5 page article Source: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jbmb.2012.1234 (still available at that price, UoBath has no access)
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  OA hugely benefitstext & data mining I’ve had my access to at least one publisher (BioOne) cut-off before. My 'crime' – downloading more than 25 PDFs in 5 minutes. The paywall system and its rate limitations create artificial obstacles for researchers. In contrast, OA publishers have no problem with you downloading ALL their content. Many even actively facilitate this. I have all of PLoS on a USB stick.
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  Practical steps: Avoidmonopolistic publishers When articles are published the publisher often takes the copyright of the work. After this, no-one else can publish copies of it, not even the author(s)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_transfer_agreement N.B. Don’t sign away your copyright! Journals do not need to take away your ©
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  Aim for newer,better journals It’s a myth that gold OA is ‘expensive’ ‘gold’ open access simply means journal-mediated OA Most OA journals do not charge (APC’s) to publish with them* Cost-Free (for Authors) Have Fee Waivers Low cost, High quality AMNH Bulletin Journal of Economic Perspectives Royal Society Open Science IZA Journals *Source: Solomon, D. J. and Björk, B.-C. 2012. A study of open access journals using article processing charges. J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec 63:1485-1495. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22673
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  My experience withOA - ‘gold-route’ Stoltzfus, A., O'Meara, B., Whitacre, J., Mounce, R., Gillespie, E., Kumar, S., Rosauer, D., and Vos, R. 2012. Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis. BMC Research Notes 5:574+ Mounce, R 2013. Open access and altmetrics: Distinct but complementary. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 39:14-17. Poisot, T., Mounce, R., and Gravel, D. 2013. Moving toward a sustainable ecological science: don't let data go to waste! Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 6. Vos, R ... Mounce, R. et al 2014. Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and service. Biodiversity Data Journal 2:e1125+ Cost Fee-waiver Free Free Free
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  My experience withOA - ‘green-route’ Available in full at: Mounce, R. and Wills, M. A. 2011. Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature10266 Mounce, R. and Janies, D., 2013. Synergistic sharing of data and tools to enable team science. In: Zander, J. and Mosterman, P. J., eds. Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society. CRC Press, pp. 437-447. [book chapter] Mounce, R. and Wills, M. A. 2011. Methods of determining cranial and postcranial character congruence. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.88864 [conference poster] Stoltzfus A, O'Meara B, Whitacre J, Mounce R, Gillespie EL, Kumar S, Rosauer DF, Vos RA (2012) Data from: Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis. Dryad Digital Repository. doi: 10.5061/dryad.h6pf365t [DATA] OPUS (UoBath) & Academia.edu OPUS (UoBath) & Academia.edu
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  Tools! Use theseto your advantage!