This document discusses a workshop on open access and sharing research data. It introduces open access, defines it as digital works that are free online and free of copyright restrictions. It discusses funder mandates requiring open access publication and sharing of research data. It also addresses issues around research integrity and transparency when publicly sharing data and retaining copyright of published work. The document provides information on open access policies and initiatives in various fields and journals.

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Open Access &
sharing
research data
SOM workshop 2013
Esther Hoorn

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program
› Intro
- Sharing results of publicly funded research- open access
- data mining - re-use
- Research integrity - transparency
› How does that affect you?
- dissemination paragraph of a research proposal
› Why is the library involved?
- Support for visibility of research
- Repository for dissertations
- Awareness on copyright-issues & OA-policy
› Planning
- general introduction on policy,
- OA for publications, than break
- discussion sharing research data

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Definition Open Access
Open access (OA) literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions.
Peter Suber

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Open Access at Springer

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Aim Horizon 2020:
› It’s partly about making access to
scientific information more affordable.
› But improving access can also help
science and innovation itself.
 Sharing research results helps the scientific
community to examine, compare, learn, and
spread knowledge — faster and better.
 http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/open-science/

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Leadership EU: Horizon 2020
› plan to make available under open access
all publications stemming from EU-funded
research. EC also commits to progressively
open access to research data
› EC is also formally recommending to EU
Member States that they join us on this
road to open access, for research funded at
national level.

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Data is hot!
Article on “trends for
2012”: “Keeping your
research data secret until
they are finally printed in
a scientific journal is so
2011”
Neelie Kroes (Vice-
President of the European
Commission responsible
for the Digital Agenda):
“Data is the new gold”

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Netherlands Code of Conduct for
Scientific Practice 2004, updated 2012
III. Verifiability
Principle
Presented information is verifiable.
Whenever research results are publicized, it
is made clear what the data and the
conclusions are based on, where they were
derived from and how they can be verified.

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Best Practice
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› III.1 Research must be replicable in order to verify its
accuracy. The choice of research question, the research set-up,
the choice of method and the reference to sources studied is
accurately documented.
› III.2 The quality of data collection, data input, data storage and
data processing is guarded closely. All steps taken must be
properly reported and their execution must be properly
monitored (lab journals, progress reports, documentation of
arrangements and decisions, etc.).
› III.3 Raw research data are stored for at least five years. These
data are made available to other scientific practitioners at
request.
› III.4 Raw research data are archived in such a way that they can
be consulted at a minimum expense of time and effort.
› III.5 The source of all educational material, including oral
information transfer, is stated.

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Data
Management
Plans
1. Preparation of the
data collection
project
2. Implementation of
the data collection
project
3. Archiving data and
making data available
http://www.dans.knaw.nl/cont
ent/categorieen/diensten/data
-management-plan

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McCullough/McGeary/Harrison:
“Lessons from the JMCB Archive”, 2006
http://openeconomics.net/2012/12/07/research-data-management-in-economic-journals/
“Results published in economic journals are
accepted at face value and rarely subjected to
the independent verification that is the
cornerstone of the scientific method. Most
results published in economics journals cannot
be subjected to verification, even in principle,
because authors typically are not required
to make their data and code available for
verification.”

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Final report cie Levelt (Stapel)
“Although mutual trust remains at the basis of
scientific collaboration, this cannot be taken for
granted. Of course, the shortcomings identified
must not result in organized distrust or
overblown bureaucracy that unnecessarily
impedes scientific work, but rather in the
creation of a research environment in which
researchers are encouraged, through
coaching, training and effective controls, to take
account of the rules for careful and honest
academic research.”

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New initiatives on sharing
data

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New initiatives in marketing science
› Marketing Science announces its new
replication and disclosure policies that will
take effect beginning April 15, 2013.
› International Journal of Research in Marketing:
We launched a new section in the journal: the
Replication Corner. The idea is to publish
conceptual replications, and in some cases also
failed replications, of important findings in the
field. We ask you…to encourage research
students, perhaps as part of their training, to
send to IJRM their replication works.

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Request:
Dear Esther,
It is great to hear from you and also to know
that this information has been useful for you.
Your workshop sounds really interesting, would
you like to share some information about the
workshop on the open economics
blog: openeconomics.net/blog ?
Velichka

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Discussion on
Open Access & data sharing

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Are you aware of funder’s mandates that require and fund
Open Access in your field of research? See for instance
NWO's website.
“Although OA journals began a little later in China, they have
undergone rapid development. Many universities and
colleges, academic associations, and research institutions in
China currently practice an OA model…
Economics 30 journals with OA 4.4 % of all journals
(Medicine 30%)”
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2012.03.001

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2
› Name two journals in which you would like to
publish articles during your (Phd.) research.
› Check the impact factor of these journals in the
Journal Citation Reports For a short tutorial on
the JCR: Short Journal Citation Report video
tutorial
› For innovative approaches to metrics see
Altmetrics, Altmetric and the PLOS page on
article level metrics.

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› Do the publishers of these two journals allow
you to retain your copyrights and to publish
Open Access? Here is a short Dutch Youtube
film on retaining your copyright.
› If not, do they allow to make the final version
before publication available in Open Access.
Check on the website for publishers copyright
and self-archiving SHERPA-Romeo.

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4
› Are there interesting Open Access journals or
similar initiatives in your field?
› See for a database with Open Access journals
the directory of Open Access journals.

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5
Select one issue related to the topic “Research
data & integrity” you consider relevant for your
line of research, and explain why it is relevant.

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Issues: data policies
› attitude/role as researcher
› What data authors have to provide
- descriptions of the data
- instructions on how to use
- submission of (self-written) programs used e.g. for
simulation
- programs used for these simulations
 When?
- prior to publication
- Proprietary data
 How?
- Open formats
- Version of software

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Look at this blogpost on research data
management in economic journals on the open
economics website. Are there relevant policies
for adding data to journals articles for the
journals you selected under question 2?

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Conclusions?

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Thank you!
E.Hoorn@rug.nl
@ehoorn
http://www.rug.nl/science-and-
society/library/services/openaccess/