Research Methodologies :: Open Research

Jessy Kate Cowan-SharpUniversity of Maryland

Research...

Research today<--> 

The World is Changing

Science?

{         Verifiable,         Repeatable,         Extensible,         Accessible }

"The Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and

processes digitally visible... who invites and encourages ongoing [dialog about]

their work and secondary uses..."

http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html

Open Science == Science

In Practice?

Product Open Access JournalsMachine readable formatsOpen Peer ReviewLicensesProcess Collaboration Data Licenses

* (There’s tons out there on Open Educational Resources, OpenCourseWare… won't be going into that here.)

Open Access Journals

Openly accessible regardless of affiliation or financial means

Publication models: pay-to-publish || no fee

Access models: print || digital

Public Library of Science (PLoS)plos.org

Open Research Computation ...for computational researchersopenresearchcomputation.com

Nature Communications ...open access option (fee-based)http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access

Theory of Computing (Professor Srinivasan)theoryofcomputing.org

Arxive.org(Pr)e-prints 

Directory of Open Access Journals doaj.org

OpenAccess

Peer Reviewed

Journals... and many more

Licensing - Content

Licensing - Data

Licensing - Author Rightshttp://scholars.sciencecommons.org

Modifies the publisher’s agreement

Allows you to keep key rights to your articles

Creative Commons Interactive Form - fill out and print

opendatacommons.org

Guides and Licenses

Process :: Open NotebookScience

http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/

Process :: Blogs

Process ::Microformats

http://jessykate.posterous.com/open-science-microformats-initial-thoughts

References            Conversations 

Data

Process :: Code

Clutter versus transparency

Getting “scooped” - What if someone steals my idea?

Being wrong

Being special  

“They won’t understand”

Challenges

Hippocratic Oath for scientists? Fair trade research?

Databases of theories (correct and falsified)

Databases of failed experiments, negative results. 

More fine-grained licensing

Queryable atomic results

Innovating science itself - by exposing the process we make it more "hackable."

Looking to the Future...

Keep a research blog

Make it CC

Post your data online (with good documentation)

Put your code on github (or some other public place)

Use open access journals and source materials for courses.

Things We Can Do

Some PhilosophyTools are always changing, but.. As Scientists we aim to:Advance the state of society’s knowledge and understanding Do good and help humanity. 

How can our research reach or benefit the most people? How can we ensure that it is built upon and used to inform future work? How can we ensure our work is maximally re-useable, re-mixable? 

:: Sharing process:: Sharing results:: Optimizing for re-usability and re-mixability

Summary

Initiatives - Get Involved

Beyond the Impact Factor

Science Hack DayOpen Science Summit

Open Knowledge Foundation Open Science mailing list

#openscience