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Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science
The document provides an overview of open science and its benefits. It discusses how open science involves making research outputs like publications and data openly accessible and reusable. Open access to publications and data sharing are required by Horizon 2020, the EU research funding program. It must be ensured that publications resulting from Horizon 2020 funding are made openly accessible within 6 months, and data must be deposited in repositories to validate results. Overall open science is aimed at increasing the benefits and impacts of research.
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- 1. Facilitate Open ScienceTraining for European Research Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science Martin Donnelly Digital Curation Centre University of Edinburgh (Scotland) European Projects Accelerator event Brussels, 20 May 2015
- 2. Overview 1. Background andcontext 2. What is Open Science? 3. Benefits of Open Science 4. Open Science in Horizon 2020 (inc. policy specifics) a. Focus on publications b. Focus on data (and code) 5. Useful resources for complying with the policies 6. About the FOSTER project
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- 4. Context • Open Scienceis situated within a context of ever greater transparency, accessibility and accountability • The impetus for Openness in research comes from two directions: • Ground-up – OA began in the High Energy Physics research community, which saw benefit in not waiting for publication before sharing research findings (and data / code) • Top-down – Government/funder support, increasing public and commercial engagement with research • The main goals of these developments are to lower barriers to accessing the outputs of publicly funded research (or ‘science’ for short), to speed up the research process, and to strengthen the quality, integrity and longevity of the scholarly record
- 5. The old wayof doing research 1. Researcher collects data (information) 2. Researcher interprets/synthesises data 3. Researcher writes paper based on data 4. Paper is published (and preserved) 5. Data is left to benign neglect, and eventually ceases to be accessible
- 6. The new wayof doing research Plan Collect Assure Describe Preserve Discover Integrate Analyze PUBLISH …and RE-USE The DataONE lifecycle model
- 7. Without intervention, data+ time = no data Vines et al. “examined the availability of data from 516 studies between 2 and 22 years old” - The odds of a data set being reported as extant fell by 17% per year - Broken e-mails and obsolete storage devices were the main obstacles to data sharing - Policies mandating data archiving at publication are clearly needed “The current system of leaving data with authors means that almost all of it is lost over time, unavailable for validation of the original results or to use for entirely new purposes” according to Timothy Vines, one of the researchers. This underscores the need for intentional management of data from all disciplines and opened our conversation on potential roles for librarians in this arena. (“80 Percent of Scientific Data Gone in 20 Years” HNGN, Dec. 20, 2013, http://www.hngn.com/articles/20083/20131220/80-percent- of-scientific-data-gone-in-20-years.htm.) Vines et al., The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age, Current Biology (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.014
- 8. WHAT IS OPENSCIENCE? Image: from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, (MDCCCLXI) (or 1861 if you’d prefer)
- 9. Open Access, OpenData, Open Science • The Internet lowered the physical barriers to accessing knowledge, but financial barriers remained – indeed, the cost of online journals tended to increase much faster than inflation, and scholars/libraries faced a cost crisis • Open Access (OA) originated in the 1980s with free-to-access Listserv journals, but it really took off with the popularisation of the Internet in the mid-1990s, and the subsequent boom in online journals • As Open Access to publications became normal (if not ubiquitous), the scholarly community turned its attention to the data which underpins the research outputs, and eventually to consider it a first-class output in its own right. The development of the OA and research data management (RDM) agendas are closely linked as part of a broader trend in research, sometimes termed ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ • “The European Commission is now moving beyond open access towards the more inclusive area of open science. Elements of open science will gradually feed into the shaping of a policy for Responsible Research and Innovation and will contribute to the realisation of the European Research Area and the Innovation Union, the two main flagship initiatives for research and innovation” http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/index.cfm?pg=policy&lib=science • Open Science encourages – and indeed requires – heterogeneous stakeholder groups to work together for a common, societal goal
- 10. What is RDM? “theactive management and appraisal of data over the lifecycle of scholarly and scientific interest” What sorts of activities? - Planning and describing data- related work before it takes place - Documenting your data so that others can find and understand it - Storing it safely during the project - Depositing it in a trusted archive at the end of the project - Linking publications to the datasets that underpin them Data management is a part of good research practice. - RCUK Policy and Code of Conduct on the Governance of Good Research Conduct
- 11. RDM: who andhow? • RDM is a hybrid activity, involving multiple stakeholder groups… • The researchers themselves • Research support personnel • Partners based in other institutions, commercial partners, etc • Data Management Planning (DMP) underpins and pulls together different strands of data management activities. DMP is the process of planning, describing and communicating the activities carried out during the research lifecycle in order to… • Keep sensitive data safe • Maximise data’s re-use potential • Support longer-term preservation • Data Management Plans are a means of communication, with contemporaries and future re-users alike
- 12. BENEFITS OF OPENSCIENCE Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oblongpictures/
- 13. Benefits of datasharing and publication • SPEED: The research process becomes faster • EFFICIENCY: Data collection can be funded once, and used many times for a variety of purposes • ACCESSIBILITY: Interested third parties can (where appropriate) access and build upon publicly-funded research resources with minimal barriers to access • IMPACT and LONGEVITY: Open publications and data receive more citations, over longer period • TRANSPARENCY and QUALITY: The evidence that underpins research can be made open for anyone to scrutinise, and attempt to replicate findings. This leads to a more robust scholarly record
- 14. “In genomics research,a large-scale analysis of data sharing shows that studies that made data available in repositories received 9% more citations, when controlling for other variables; and that whilst self-reuse citation declines steeply after two years, reuse by third parties increases even after six years.” (Piwowar and Vision, 2013) Van den Eynden, V. and Bishop, L. (2014). Incentives and motivations for sharing research data, a researcher’s perspective. A Knowledge Exchange Report, http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5662/1/KE _report-incentives-for-sharing- researchdata.pdf Benefits of Open Data: Impact and Longevity
- 15. “Data is necessaryfor reproducibility of computational research, but an equal amount of concern should be directed at code sharing.” Victoria Stodden, “Innovation and Growth through Open Access to Scientific Research: Three Ideas for High-Impact Rule Changes” in Litan, Robert E. et al. Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, February 8, 2011. http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1757982. Benefits of Open Data: Quality
- 16. “Conservatively, we estimatethat the value of data in Australia’s public research to be at least $1.9 billion and possibly up to $6 billion a year at current levels of expenditure and activity. Research data curation and sharing might be worth at least $1.8 billion and possibly up to $5.5 billion a year, of which perhaps $1.4 billion to $4.9 billion annually is yet to be realized.” • “Open Research Data”, Report to the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), November 2014 - John Houghton, Victoria Institute of Strategic Economic Studies & Nicholas Gruen, Lateral Economics Benefits of Open Data: Financial
- 17. J. Manyika etal. "Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information" McKinsey Global Institute, October 2013
- 18. “If we aregoing to wait five years for data to be released, the Arctic is going to be a very different place.” Bryn Nelson, Nature, 10 Sept 2009 http://www.nature.com/nature/jour nal/v461/n7261/index.html Benefits of Open Data: Speed https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7348953774/ - CC-BY
- 19. OPEN SCIENCE INHORIZON 2020
- 20. • Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn •Research & Innovation European Research Area (ERA) & Innovation Union Vocal support from the Commission… • Vice-President Neelie Kroes • Digital Agenda Digital single market
- 21. Recap: Open Accessin FP7 The EC’s Open Access pilot ran from August 2008 until the end of the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) in 2013. It required grant recipients in certain areas to “deposit peer reviewed research articles or final manuscripts resulting from their FP7 projects into an online repository and make their best efforts to ensure open access to these articles.” Both green and gold OA were catered for. • Rationale: • to improve and promote the dissemination of knowledge, thereby • improving the efficiency of scientific discovery, and • maximising return on investment in R&D by public research funding bodies • Coverage: Peer reviewed research articles in the following areas… • Energy; Environment (including Climate Change); Health; Information and Communication Technologies (Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics); Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures); Science in society *; Socio-economic sciences and the humanities * • Timing: Open access to these publications is to be ensured within six months after publication (* twelve months in the last two areas) • Place of deposit: Institutional repository was first choice, failing that “an appropriate subject based/thematic repository” or the EC’s open repository for papers that would otherwise be homeless. • Full guidelines: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/open-access-pilot_en.pdf
- 22. Open Access now •OA is now past the ‘tipping point’ in several fields (e.g. biology, biomedical research, mathematics and general science & technology) whereas the social sciences, humanities, applied sciences, engineering and technology are the least engaged. (Archambault et al. (2013)“Proportion of Open Access Peer-Reviewed Papers at the European and World Levels — 2004-2011”) • The EC sees a real economic benefit to OA by supporting SMEs and NGOs that can’t afford subscriptions to the latest research. It removes financial barriers, and serves as a mechanism for transferring technology and knowledge to the knowledge-based SME sector, and contributing to economic growth (cf the EC’s Innovation Union objectives on fuelling economic growth through investment in research) • Houghton, Swan and Brown (http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272603/) offer quantifiable evidence of how much a lack of OA costs SMEs, both in terms of the time lost accessing documents and the delays in producing new products
- 23. Open Science in2020 – Overview (i) PUBLICATIONS • All projects receiving Horizon 2020 funding are obliged to make sure that any peer- reviewed journal article they publish is openly accessible, free of charge, via a repository • The researcher chooses where to publish, and whether to use a ‘gold’ (APC) or ‘green’ (self- archiving) publication route • No current price cap on fees for APCs – write them into your proposals under the dissemination budget, and acknowledge funding in publications A detailed description of the OA mandate and Open Research Data Pilot is provided on the Participants’ Portal
- 24. Open Science in2020 – Overview (ii) DATA MANAGEMENT • H2020 features an Open Research Data pilot, and it seems likely that it will become an across-the-board requirement in FP9… • It applies to data (and metadata) needed to validate scientific results, which should be deposited in a dedicated data repository • The Horizon 2020 Open Research Data pilot covers “Innovation actions” and “Research and Innovation actions”, and involves three iterations of Data Management Plan (DMP) • 6 months after start of project, mid-project review, end-of- project (final review) • DMP contents • Data types; Standards used; Sharing/making available; Curation and preservation • There are certain opt-out conditions A detailed description of the OA mandate and Open Research Data Pilot is provided on the Participants’ Portal
- 25. FOCUS ON PUBLICATIONS Image– Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (2010)
- 26. Publishing particulars • TheEC view is that the new H2020 OA mandate does not restrict publishing in any way; researchers can publish where they choose. The only requirement is that they ensure the publication is made openly available via a repository. This can be done by: • publishing with an OA journal, which may or may not charge an APC; • publishing with a subscription-based journal, and depositing a copy into a repository (with open access being usually delayed by an embargo period imposed by the publisher); or • (if the option is provided by the publisher) pay an APC to have an immediate open access copy. • In Horizon 2020, a copy of the article must always be deposited in a repository, even if the gold (or hybrid) option is chosen • When researchers are deciding where to publish, it’s useful to consult a service like SHERPA RoMEO to see what open access options are available. Researchers could start with a list of targeted journals and prioritise, or use a mix-and-match approach • Although over 60% of publishers don’t charge APCs, fees can be quite high. The average rate is €1,020 per article for open access publishers and €1,980 for hybrid journals. (Ref: Björk & Solomon). It could be very costly to always choose the gold route and pay many APCs, so a mixture of gold and green approaches is often best
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- 28. Summary points • Mainpoints of the Horizon 2020 Open Access requirements: • Researcher chooses where to publish; • Requirements apply to peer-reviewed articles rather than monographs, technical reports and conference proceedings, though these can be included as desired; • All peer-reviewed publications should be made OA via the green or gold routes; • It is no longer sufficient to make publications available on the project website. Deposit in repositories is required in all cases (even under gold OA), so the bibliographic data is open and can be harvested by services like OpenAIRE; • The EC does not currently impose any price cap on fees for publication costs. Researchers should plan OA from the proposal stage, and write any APCs into the proposal under the dissemination budget; • The EC recommends how their funding should be acknowledged in publications. This style should be followed in order to facilitate indexing. • The primary document to consult is “Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020” (2013)
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- 30. H2020 Open Datapilot: overview • The Horizon 2020 Open Research Data pilot covers “Innovation actions” and “Research and Innovation actions” • It involves three iterations of Data Management Plan (DMP) • 6 months after start of project, mid-project review, end-of-project (final review) • DMP contents • Data types; Standards used; Sharing/making available; Curation and preservation • There are opt-out conditions. A detailed description and scope of the Open Research Data Pilot requirements is provided on the Participants’ Portal
- 31. Data management plansand planning • Research funders (and other bodies) often ask for a short statement/plan to be submitted alongside grant applications. HEIs are increasingly asking their researchers to do this too • DMP is the process of planning, describing and communicating the activities carried out during the research lifecycle in order to… • Keep sensitive data safe • Maximise data’s re-use potential • Support longer-term preservation • Data management planning (DMP) underpins and pulls together different strands of data management activities
- 32. What does adata management plan look like? A brief statement defining… • how data will be captured/created • how it will be documented • who will be able to access it • where it will be stored • how it will be backed up, and • whether (and how) it will be shared and preserved long-term • etc DMPs are often submitted as part of funding applications, but will be useful whenever researchers are creating (or reusing) data, especially where the research involves multiple partners, countries, etc…
- 33. Roles and responsibilities It’sworth remembering that RDM is a hybrid activity, involving multiple stakeholder groups… • The principal investigator (usually ultimately responsible for data) • Research assistants (may be more involved in day-to-day data management) • The institution’s funding office (may have a compliance role) • Library/IT/Legal (The library may issue PIDs, or liaise with an external service who do this, e.g. DataCite.) • Partners based in other institutions • Commercial partners • etc
- 34. Benefits of datamanagement planning • It is intuitive that planned activities stand a better chance of meeting their goals than unplanned ones. The process of planning is also a process of communication, increasingly important in interdisciplinary / multi-partner research. Collaboration will be more harmonious if project partners (in industry, other universities, other countries…) are in accord • In terms of data security, if there are good reasons not to publish/share data, in whole or in part, you will be on more solid ground if you flag these up early in the process • DMP also provides an ideal opportunity to engender good practice with regard to (e.g.) file formats, metadata standards, storage and risk management practices, leading to greater longevity of data, and higher quality standards
- 35. Open Data Pilot:specifics (i) AIM The Open Research Data Pilot aims to improve and maximise access to and re-use of research data generated by projects. It will be monitored throughout Horizon 2020 with a view to further developing EC policy on open research. SCOPE For the 2014-2015 Work Programme, the areas of Horizon 2020 participating in the Open Research Data Pilot are: • Future and Emerging Technologies; Research infrastructures; part e-Infrastructures; Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies; Information and Communication Technologies; Societal Challenge: 'Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy’; part Smart cities and communities; Societal Challenge: 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw materials' – except raw materials; Societal Challenge: 'Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies’; Science with and for Society This corresponds to about €3 billion or 20% of the overall Horizon 2020 budget in 2014-2015. COVERAGE The Open Research Data Pilot applies to two types of data: 1. the data, including associated metadata, needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications as soon as possible; 2. other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in the data management plan.
- 36. Open Data Pilot:specifics (ii) STEP 1 • The data should be deposited, preferably in a dedicated research data repository. These may be subject-based/thematic, institutional or centralised. • EC suggests the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org) and Databib (http://databib.org) for researchers looking to identify an appropriate repository • Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) will also become an entry point for linking publications to data. STEP 2 • So far as possible, projects must then take measures to enable for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data. • EC suggests attaching Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY or CC0) to the data deposited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). • At the same time, projects should provide information via the chosen repository about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they should provide the tools and instruments themselves.
- 37. Open Data Pilot:specifics (iii) COSTS Costs relating to the implementation of the pilot will be eligible. Specific technical and professional support services will also be provided (e- Infrastructures WP), e.g. EUDAT and OpenAIRE, alongside support measures such as FOSTER. OPT-OUTS Opt outs are possible, either totally or partially. Projects may opt out of the Pilot at any stage, for a variety of reasons, e.g. • if participation in the Pilot on Open Research Data is incompatible with the Horizon 2020 obligation to protect results if they can reasonably be expected to be commercially or industrially exploited; • confidentiality (e.g. security issues, protection of personal data); • if participation in the Pilot on Open Research Data would jeopardise the achievement of the main aim of the action; • if the project will not generate / collect any research data; • if there are other legitimate reasons to not take part in the Pilot (to be declared at proposal stage)
- 38. Source: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/dat a/ref/h2020/grants_manual/amga/h2020- amga_en.pdf “If a beneficiary breachesany of its obligations under this Article, the grant may be reduced” Grant Agreement Article 29.I-VI
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- 40. 1. Excellence: Objectives Relevance toWorkProgram Concept & Approach Ambition min 3/5 POINTS 2. Impact: Expected impact to WorkProgram Maximise Impact (Open Access & Open Data) min 3/5 POINTS 3. Implementation: Workplan & Management Consortium & Resources min 3/5 POINTS Complying with the policy & getting funded
- 41. • 2. IMPACT(min 3/5 points): 2.1 Expected impact to WorkProgram - expected impacts set out in the work programme - delivering innovations to the markets - socially important impacts 2.2 Maximise Impact (Open Access & Open Data) - plan for results dissemination and exploitation - research data management for verification & re- use - knowledge strategy management & Open Access … for public and societal engagement Complying with the policy & getting funded
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- 43. Open Science stepsand resources 1. Understand your funder’s policies (e.g. the EC Guidelines) 2. Check your intended publisher’s OA policy (e.g. via Sherpa Romeo) 3. Create a data management plan with DMPonline 4. Decide which data to preserve using the DCC How-To guide and checklist, “Five Steps to Decide what Data to Keep” 5. Identify a long-term home for your data (e.g. via re3data.org) 6. Link your data to your publications with a persistent identifier (e.g. via DataCite) • N.B. Many repositories, including Zenodo, will do this for you 7. Investigate EU infrastructure services and resources, e.g. EUDAT, OpenAIRE Plus, FOSTER, etc…
- 44. Data management resources(DCC) • Book chapter • Donnelly, M. (2012) “Data Management Plans and Planning”, in Pryor (ed.) Managing Research Data, London: Facet • Guidance, e.g. “How-To Develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan” • DCC Checklist for a Data Management Plan: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data- management-plans/checklist • Links to all DCC DMP resources via http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data- management-plans • DMPonline: https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/
- 45. • Helps researcherswrite DMPs • Provides funder questions and guidance • Includes a template for Horizon 2020 • Provides help from universities • Examples and suggested answers • Free to use • Mature (v1 launched April 2010) • Code is Open Source (on GitHub) • https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk DMPonline: overview
- 46. Data management resources(Non-DCC) • Book chapter • Sallans, A. and Lake, S. (2014) “Data Management Assessment and Planning Tools”, in Ray (ed.) Research Data Management, Purdue University Press • DMPTool • UKDA guidance • NERC guidance • European Union resources • Resources from other universities, inc. Oxford (http://researchdata.ox.ac.uk/)
- 47. ABOUT THE FOSTERPROJECT Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research
- 48. OBJECTIVES • To supportdifferent stakeholders, especially younger researchers, in adopting open access in the context of the European Research Area (ERA) and in complying with the open access policies and rules of participation set out for Horizon 2020 • To integrate open access principles and practice in the current research workflow by targeting the young researcher training environment • To strengthen institutional training capacity to foster compliance with the open access policies of the ERA and Horizon 2020 (beyond the FOSTER project) • To facilitate the adoption, reinforcement and implementation of open access policies from other European funders, in line with the EC’s recommendation, in partnership with PASTEUR4OA project FacilitateOpenScienceTrainingforEuropeanResearch The project
- 49. METHODS • Identifying alreadyexisting content that can be reused in the context of the training activities and repackaging, reformatting them to be used within FOSTER, and developing/creating/enhancing contents as required • Developing the FOSTER Portal to support e- learning, blended learning, self-learning, dissemination of training materials/contents and a Helpdesk • Delivery of face-to-face training, especially training trainers/multipliers who can deliver further training and dissemination activities, within institutions, nations or disciplinary communities • The EU is also funding other specific technical and professional support services via the e-Infrastructures WP, e.g. EUDAT and OpenAIRE FacilitateOpenScienceTrainingforEuropeanResearch The project
- 50. Thank you /Merci • For more information about the FOSTER project: • Website: www.fosteropenscience.eu • Principal investigator: Eloy Rodrigues (eloy@sdum.uminho.pt) • General enquiries: Gwen Franck (gwen.franck@eifl.net) • Twitter: @fosterscience • My contact details: • Email: martin.donnelly@ed.ac.uk • Twitter: @mkdDCC • Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/martindo nnelly This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
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- #2 Title slide (and verbal overview) This short talk will show how Open Science makes research stronger, more visible, more valuable to scholarly communities and society at large, and describes the FOSTER project which is collecting, organising and presenting training and learning resources from across the entire research cycle in order to make it happen.
- #3 Context: Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, G8 statement Open Science principles are an essential part of knowledge creation and sharing and innovation. They directly support researchers’ need for greater impact, optimum dissemination of research, while also enabling the engagement of citizen scientists and society at large on societal challenges. FOSTER aims to set in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to integrate Open Science in their daily workflow, supporting researchers to optimizing their research visibility and impact and to facilitate the adoption of EU open access policies.
- #4 Context: Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, G8 statement Open Science principles are an essential part of knowledge creation and sharing and innovation. They directly support researchers’ need for greater impact, optimum dissemination of research, while also enabling the engagement of citizen scientists and society at large on societal challenges. FOSTER aims to set in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to integrate Open Science in their daily workflow, supporting researchers to optimizing their research visibility and impact and to facilitate the adoption of EU open access policies.
- #5 Context: Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, G8 statement Open Science principles are an essential part of knowledge creation and sharing and innovation. They directly support researchers’ need for greater impact, optimum dissemination of research, while also enabling the engagement of citizen scientists and society at large on societal challenges. FOSTER aims to set in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to integrate Open Science in their daily workflow, supporting researchers to optimizing their research visibility and impact and to facilitate the adoption of EU open access policies.
- #7 INNOVATION: Enables new uses for publication (e.g. text mining and automation)
- #9 Context: Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, G8 statement Open Science principles are an essential part of knowledge creation and sharing and innovation. They directly support researchers’ need for greater impact, optimum dissemination of research, while also enabling the engagement of citizen scientists and society at large on societal challenges. FOSTER aims to set in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to integrate Open Science in their daily workflow, supporting researchers to optimizing their research visibility and impact and to facilitate the adoption of EU open access policies.
- #10 Intro: Open Science, Open Research, Science 2.0 Who’s involved? OS is a horizontal topic, relevant to all stakeholders of the Research Cycle & Learning Objectives and Methods must address the various needs of each group;
- #11 Will talk about active management now, and appraisal a little later…
- #12 Focus on data management – what is it, what activities are involved (and how do these affect different roles, e.g. researchers, PhD Students, librarians, data managers, research administrators, publishers, policy makers, funders, project managers.) – cite Vines et al.
- #13 ACCESSIBILITY: Interested third parties can (where appropriate) access and build upon publicly-funded research resources with minimal barriers to access.
- #14 Note that even if data is not suitable for sharing/publication, it still needs active management!
- #15 ACCESSIBILITY: Interested third parties can (where appropriate) access and build upon publicly-funded research resources with minimal barriers to access.
- #16 TRANSPARENCY and QUALITY: The evidence that underpins research can be made open for anyone to scrutinise, and attempt to replicate findings. This leads to a more robust scholarly record - linking scholarly publications to the data which underpins them contributes to strengthening the longevity, utility and quality of both
- #18 EFFICIENCY: Data collection can be funded once, and used many times for a variety of purposes.
- #19 SPEED: the research and innovation process is now fastest in High Energy Physics due to the community practice of immediate data publication
- #20 Context: Open Knowledge Foundation, Creative Commons, G8 statement Open Science principles are an essential part of knowledge creation and sharing and innovation. They directly support researchers’ need for greater impact, optimum dissemination of research, while also enabling the engagement of citizen scientists and society at large on societal challenges. FOSTER aims to set in place sustainable mechanisms for EU researchers to integrate Open Science in their daily workflow, supporting researchers to optimizing their research visibility and impact and to facilitate the adoption of EU open access policies.
- #23 SOCIETAL benefits are achieved through increased transparency and accessibility
- #24 Open Science in H2020 – OA mandate and data management pilot STEP 1 The data should be deposited, preferably in a dedicated research data repository. These may be subject-based/thematic, institutional or centralised. EC suggests the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org) and Databib (http://databib.org) for researchers looking to identify an appropriate repository Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) will also become an entry point for linking publications to data. STEP 2 So far as possible, projects must then take measures to enable for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data. EC suggests attaching Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY or CC0) to the data deposited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). At the same time, projects should provide information via the chosen repository about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they should provide the tools and instruments themselves.
- #25 Open Science in H2020 – OA mandate and data management pilot STEP 1 The data should be deposited, preferably in a dedicated research data repository. These may be subject-based/thematic, institutional or centralised. EC suggests the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org) and Databib (http://databib.org) for researchers looking to identify an appropriate repository Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) will also become an entry point for linking publications to data. STEP 2 So far as possible, projects must then take measures to enable for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data. EC suggests attaching Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY or CC0) to the data deposited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). At the same time, projects should provide information via the chosen repository about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they should provide the tools and instruments themselves.
- #26 Open Science in H2020 – OA mandate and data management pilot STEP 1 The data should be deposited, preferably in a dedicated research data repository. These may be subject-based/thematic, institutional or centralised. EC suggests the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org) and Databib (http://databib.org) for researchers looking to identify an appropriate repository Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) will also become an entry point for linking publications to data. STEP 2 So far as possible, projects must then take measures to enable for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data. EC suggests attaching Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY or CC0) to the data deposited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). At the same time, projects should provide information via the chosen repository about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they should provide the tools and instruments themselves.
- #28 Some potential options and useful services. The diagram presents the different publishing options, highlighting gold and green routes to open access. See more at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/blog/fostering-open-science
- #30 Open Science in H2020 – OA mandate and data management pilot STEP 1 The data should be deposited, preferably in a dedicated research data repository. These may be subject-based/thematic, institutional or centralised. EC suggests the Registry of Research Data Repositories (www.re3data.org) and Databib (http://databib.org) for researchers looking to identify an appropriate repository Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) will also become an entry point for linking publications to data. STEP 2 So far as possible, projects must then take measures to enable for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate (free of charge for any user) this research data. EC suggests attaching Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY or CC0) to the data deposited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0). At the same time, projects should provide information via the chosen repository about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results, for instance specialised software or software code, algorithms, analysis protocols, etc. Where possible, they should provide the tools and instruments themselves.
- #31 These guidelines echo the G8 Science Ministers’ statement (2013), which offered similar good practice principles: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g8-science-ministers-statement Horizon 2020 open data pilot follows on from G8 Open Data Charter (June 2013) We’ve created a DMPonline template for Horizon 2020 based on the annexes in the Guidelines for Data Management.
- #34 Research itself is increasingly international, interdisciplinary and collaborative, crossing both public and private spheres. Communication has never been more important.
- #49 The FOSTER project – what and how. FOSTER’s training strategy uses a combination of methods and activities, from face-to-face training, to the use of e-learning, blended and self-learning, as well as the dissemination of training materials/contents/curricula via a dedicated training portal, plus a helpdesk. Face-to-face trainings targets graduate schools in European universities and in particular will train trainers/teachers/multipliers that can conduct further training and dissemination activities in their institution, country and disciplinary community. FOSTER combines experiences and materials to showcase best practices, setting the scene for an active learning and teaching community for open access practices across Europe. The main outcomes of the project are: The FOSTER portal to host training courses and curricula; Facilitate the organisation of FOSTER training events and the creation of training content across Europe Identification of existing contents that can be reused in the context of the training activities and develop/create/ enhance contents if/where they are needed;
- #50 The FOSTER project – what and how. FOSTER’s training strategy uses a combination of methods and activities, from face-to-face training, to the use of e-learning, blended and self-learning, as well as the dissemination of training materials/contents/curricula via a dedicated training portal, plus a helpdesk. Face-to-face trainings targets graduate schools in European universities and in particular will train trainers/teachers/multipliers that can conduct further training and dissemination activities in their institution, country and disciplinary community. FOSTER combines experiences and materials to showcase best practices, setting the scene for an active learning and teaching community for open access practices across Europe. The main outcomes of the project are: The FOSTER portal to host training courses and curricula; Facilitate the organisation of FOSTER training events and the creation of training content across Europe Identification of existing contents that can be reused in the context of the training activities and develop/create/ enhance contents if/where they are needed;
- #51 Conclusion – take home messages and project contact details Open Science makes research stronger, more visible, more valuable to scholarly communities and society at large - this requires training at all stages of the research cycle to make it happen. OS can train future PhDs to be excellent at providing societal context of their research as well as be research excellent; OS can prepare PhD to deal with Research Excellence Framework (REF2020) criteria evolving towards “societal impact”, if they chose to pursue a career in research; OS practices directly prepare practitioners (and academia itself) to engage non-academic stakeholders (general public, policy makers, knowledge based SMEs); Soft-skills for Hard Impact: Broaden doctoral education from strict focus on “research excellence” to include soft-skills that deal with “societal impact of research”, so that future graduates have greater career options whether they stay in research, or not (this could also be a high-level, ambitious conclusion to end the 10 min with)