Open Science: tools and platforms
Dr. Nancy Pontika
Open Access Aggregation Officer
CORE
Twitter: @nancypontika
Why Open Science tools?
Principles for Open Science
• Open Access to Literature for Funded Research
• Access to Research Tools from Funded Research
• Data from Funded Research in the Public Domain
• Invest in Open Cyberinfrastructure
Source: http://sciencecommons.org/resources/readingroom/principles-for-open-science/
Qualities of Open Science tools
• Free to use
• Open source
• Enable customization
• Enable sharing of information
• Be interoperable
Researchers and open science
Source:
http://pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/Discussion%20Paper_Researchers%20and%20Open%20Science.pdf
Tools and platforms
1. Scientific workflows, proposals, registrations
ORCID
Source: https://orcid.org/
How ORCID helps in my case
Source: https://orcid.org/
Aspredicted.org
Source: https://aspredicted.org/
MyExperiment – research workflow
Source: https://www.myexperiment.org/home
Ipython - notebook
Source: http://ipython.org/notebook.html
Open Notebook Science Network
Source: http://onsnetwork.org/
Clinicaltrials.gov
Source: https://clinicaltrials.gov/
Tools and platforms
2. Archiving and sharing
Repositories – institutional & disciplinary
http://roar.eprints.org/
http://opendoar.org/
http://oad.simmons.edu
International disciplinary repositories
Source: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories
Data storing and sharing
Source: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
Directories of data repositories
http://oad.simmons.edu
http://www.re3data.org/
Open Science Framework
Source: https://osf.io/
Impactstory
Source: https://impactstory.org/
Authorea
Source: https://www.authorea.com/
Tools and platforms
3. Communication, discussion, assessment
PubMed Commons
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/
Pro Initiative
Source: https://opennessinitiative.org/
Hypothes.is
Source: https://web.hypothes.is/
Tools and platforms
Crowdsourcing & crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing science
• Scistarter
• Crowdcrafting
• Zooniverse
• Project noah
• Xtribe
• Citizen inventor
Source: https://science.okfn.org/tools-for-open-science/
Crowdfunding science
• Petridish
• Sciencestarter
• Sciflies.org
• Lamscientist.org
• SciFund challenge
• Microryza
• RocketHub
Source: https://science.okfn.org/tools-for-open-science/
Crowd-sourcing tagging:
Open Access Tracking Project - OATP
Source: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project
Open Access Tracking Project – Email
Source: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project
Open Access Tracking Project – Email
Source: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project
Help the OATP tag more resources
Become a tagger
Source: https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project
Why interoperability matters?
The role of aggregators
Source: https://core.ac.uk/
CORE
Statistics
77 million metadata 8 million full text
2500 data providers 6000 journals
53 languages 103 countries
Source: https://core.ac.uk/services
CORE Services
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Source: https://core.ac.uk/about/ambassadors
CORE Ambassadors – how you can help me
Source: https://core.ac.uk/about/ambassadors
CORE Ambassadors – how we can help you
( )
Source: https://www.openaire.eu/
OpenAIRE
https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/
Spurce: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index
CiteSeerX
https://www.base-search.net/
BASE
Discovering new knowledge
Image: https://ubiquitypress.tumblr.com/post/96012592921/the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine
CORE Publisher Connector
Source: https://core.ac.uk/services#connector
What is not an Open tool
Are all innovations open?
Source: https://innoscholcomm.silk.co/
Assignment
Having your research in mind, which open science
tools would you use to:
* share workflow
* deposit data
* deposit output
* assess it
* communicate results
Thank you!
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Open Science: Tools and platforms