Talk on open research and archaeology given by Dr. Lisa Lodwick at Oxford OpenCon satellite event, November 2018.

1. Open Research and Archaeology
Dr Lisa Lodwick, All Souls College
University of Oxford
@LisaLodwick

4. Why Open Research in
Archaeology?
• Archaeology is destructive – responsibility to record and
share
• Many archaeologist are not within academia – developer-
funded archaeology, museums, community archaeologists,
the public
• Research funding source
• Reproducibility based upon access to primary data

5. 1.Open Access in Archaeology

6. Early e-
publishing
initiatives

7. Society
Journals
Commercial
Journals

8. Open Access Journals

9. 2. Open Data in Archaeology

10. Archaeological data
Is messy
.xls
.doc
.tiff
.dwg
.prn
.png
.csv

12. Example of Contents of ADS

13. Example of Contents of ADS

14. Does primary data matter in
archaeology?
• FAIR in practice 2018
“For archaeological data, the final dataset is
often stored with the Archaeological Data
Services (ADS), in keeping with mandates linked
to regulations about building and discovery of
archaeological remains. The journal itself
provides the “story” about the data, the layer
that describes what the data is, how it was
collected and what the author thinks it means. “

15. How much primary data is
published?
Marwick and Pilaar Birch 2018 Advances in Archaeological Practice
53% of 48 articles in Journal of
Archaeological Science had
open primary data in 2017
Can I have your data?
Is the data available?

16. How much primary data is
published?
182 Archaeobotanical
primary data publications in
8 journals 2008-2019
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Arch Anth
Sci
Env Arch VHA Antiquity OJA JASR PNAS JAS
Numberofarticles
N Table .docx .pdf .xls Repo
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Numberofarticles
N Table .docx .pdf .xls Repo
Antiquity (CUP)
Arch Anth Sci (Springer)
Env Arch (T & F)
J Arch Sci (Elsevier)
J Arch Sci Reports (Elsevier)
Oxford J Archaeology (Wiley)
PNAS
Veg Hist (Springer) –
encourages data sharing
Research policy available
51% without primary data

17. 3. ECR-driven initiatives

18. Proceedings of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
1991 --> 2016
Mainly Oxbow (specialist archaeological publisher) no £
Motivations: widen access to knowledge, improve publishing option for
authors, disrupt the sub-discipline.

19. - Charitable organization
dedicated to OA publishing
- Prof Martin Eve and Dr Caroline
Edwards (Birkbeck)
- Launched 2015
- publish 23 journals

21. https://www.openlibhums.org/journals/

22. https://traj.openlibhums.org/

23. • Registration (DOAJ, CCBY)
• Certification (double-blind peer
review)
• Prestige
• Archiving (CLOCKKS, LOCKKS)
• Dissemination (open)
• Discoverability (range of indexing
google scholar, Web of Science
(Emerging Sources Citation Index,
social media share buttons)
• Experimentation and innovation
• Get to the ‘right’ people (29 year
brand)
Prof Susan Alcock (University of Michigan)
Dr John Creighton (University of Reading)
Dr Ben Croxford (Merseyside HER)
Prof Hella Eckardt (University of Reading)
Dr Andrew Gardner (UCL)
Dr Elizabeth Greene (Western University)
Prof Richard Hingley (Durham University)
Prof David Mattingly (University of Leicester)
Prof Martin Millett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Louise Revell (University of Southampton)
Dr Darrell Rohl (Canterbury Christ Church)
Dr Eleanor Scott
Prof Naomi Sykes (University of Nottingham)
Prof Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan)
Dr Astrid van Oyen (Cornell University)
Prof Miguel Versluys (Universiteit Leiden)
Dr Jane Webster (University of Newcastle)
Dr Robert Witcher (Durham University)

27. Who we usually talk with
Who we probably should be talking with
Archaeology

28. Biophysicist (Classical)
Archaeobotanist

30. • Encourage colleagues (Phds, ECRs) to archive
their post prints (and even pre prints).
• Push for movements towards open access
within scholarly societies.
• Talk to people outside your disciplinary bubble.
• Do something.