Transformations in Scholarly Communication

Phill Jones, PhD

Head of Publisher Outreach

Digital Science

@phillbjones

p.jones@digital-science.com

“The publisher’s new job is to support researchers at

every stage of the research cycle” Annette Thomas

Utopia-Thomas Moore1516

Data as research output

Citable and engaged with

Web of contextual references

Narrative as supplement to data

Barend Mons talking about the ‘European Open Science

Cloud’ at APE in January 2016

http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/media/conferences/ape-2016/0101-Barend-Mons/

Dr Rachel HardingUniversity of Toronto

Can Blogging make research more transparent?

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11148452/science-blog

Research is Changing

Science is Increasingly International

Source: ‘The Fourth Age of Research’ by Jonathan Adams, Nature 497, 557-

Source: Nature News, 19th December 2013

http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-losing-data-at-a-rapid-rate-1.14416

“But taxpayers who are paying for that

research will want to see something

back. Directly – through open access

to results and data. And indirectly –

through making science work better

for all of us.

That’s why we will require open

access to all publications stemming

from EU-funded research. That’s why

we will progressively open access to

the research data, too. And why we’re

asking national funding bodies to do

the same.”

Neelie Kroes.

Vice President for the European

Commission

“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy

access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why,

in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed

Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to

make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public

within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and

manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.”

February 22nd 2013

“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than

incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples,

physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in

the course of work under NSF grants”

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4

“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution”

http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf

Publicly funded research data are a public good, produced in the

public interest, which should be made openly available with as few

restrictions as possible in a timely and responsible manner.

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/DataPolicy/

Valen, Dan; Blanchat, Kelly (2015): Overview of OSTP Responses. figshare.https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1367165.v7

January 2015 - according to Sherpa Juliet, 34

funders required data archiving, 16 encourage it

UK funder data archiving policies

US Governmental funders mandating data

depositsEverybody needs a place

to put their data (and the

means to organize it)

1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of

publicly funded research

2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of

publicly funded research

3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly

funded research

4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly

funded research

5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of

publicly funded research

6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of

publicly funded research

The Open Academic Tidal Wave

Two approaches to data repositories

Structured

• Data is curated and standards are enforced

• Data is gathered with the aim of creating a

super-data set

• Easily machine readable

• Examples: Genbank, HEASARC

Unstructured

• All data types can be stored

• Varying degrees of curation

• Institutional, publisher, non-profit and private

offerings

• Not necessarily machine readable

• Examples: Figshare, Dryad, zenodo, Pure

Research Assessment is Changing

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/Y

ear/2015/metrictide/Title,104463,en.html

http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/

Open Science ≠ Open Access

A body of work begins with an idea and

ends when the impact of that idea has

been maximized.

Institutional/funding needs

Research management software, reporting

Personal Impact

Altmetrics, Author profiles

Documentation of findings

Publications, Open data

Doing the Research

Digital Notebooks, Lab Management Software

Getting an Idea

Reference Managers, Social Reading

Traditional Point of Contact

Original Idea

Perform Research

Write Article

Submit

Reviews and Revisions

Point of Publication

Maximize Impact

Share Information

Upstream Engagement• Collaborative Authorship• Community Services• Predictive data

Downstream Engagement• COUNTER / usage stats• Altmetrics• Data publishing

Symplectic

From the bench compliance

Data Type

Fundref

GRID

ORCID

Integrated into workflow

Intuitive

Thanks.

Any

questions?

@phillbjones

p.jones@digital-science.com