OPEN ACCESS @ UPEI: 2013Mark Leggott, Robertson Library

TOPICS

๏ Open Foundations

๏ IslandScholar and Open Access

๏ Open Data

๏ Open Textbooks

CONTEXT

๏ Beall’s List creator sued by OMICS

๏ Dale Askey sued by Edwin Mellen Press

๏ Publishers “double-dipping” practices even when faced with mandates

๏ Rising cost of journals

OA ON TRIAL?๏ Science issue features an article by John

Bohannon - OA journals + bogus article

๏ Selected “underclass of journals”, a number of which accepted the article

๏ Some belonged to publishers like Sage, Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer and others

๏ Suggestion of article was OA encourages

CORE OF OA๏ Bohannon article is an indictment of

shoddy peer review and business practice

๏ Nothing to do with OA

๏ OA is a philosophy designed to make advances in research available to all, regardless of $$, not a publishing process

F1000RESEARCH๏ New effort by creator of BioMed Central

example of new approach to peer review

๏ Instant publication (internal review)

๏ Open peer review

๏ Open comments

๏ Release of full data set

VALUE OF OA๏ Research made more widely available

๏ Increasing citations/impact factor

๏ Facilitate interdisciplinarity & collaboration

๏ Responds to “public good” argument for research outputs in general

UPEI OA POLICY

๏ Approved in 2012, encourages scholars:

๏ to deposit research output in IslandScholar and retain copyright when possible

๏ to consider open access options

๏ to deposit research data in a VRE

ISLANDSCHOLAR๏ UPEI’s institutional repository

๏ provides access to scholar’s citations and where available, article/data

๏ currently has 8,300+ citations

๏ facilitates deposit under OA Policy

๏ Islandora system is the foundation

DRAFT TRI-AGENCY OAP๏ SSHRC/CIHR/NSERC have released a

Draft OA Policy - Sept 1, 2014 proposes:

๏ journal publications only

๏ REQUIREMENT to deposit

๏ CIHR open data REQUIREMENT

OPEN DATA๏ “trust, but verify” core of research

๏ Increasing interest in having access to data, collaborators and funders

๏ Open Data generally implies open and unfettered access to data

๏ Providing controlled access is also possible via systems like UPEI’s VRE

REPRODUCIBILITY๏ Increasingly of interest, especially in

disciplines like health

๏ Goal is to provide data and all information needed to duplicate research

๏ One interest is responding to recent studies that suggests vast majority of research is NOT reproducible

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REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH

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NEGATIVE RESULTS PUBLISHED

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CHANGING LANDSCAPES

Economist: How science goes wrong. October 18, 2013.

VRE SERVICE

๏ Can provide range of service from online presence to data repository with backup and preservation

๏ UPEI now able to assign DOI’s for data

๏ Linkages to IslandScholar records

๏ Increase discoverability and citations

DATACITE DOIS๏ Unique identifiers for datasets, provide:

๏ easy reuse/verification of data

๏ impact of data can be tracked

๏ facilitates recognition of data producers

๏ Links back to scholar record/IR

DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP

๏ Tri-agency+CFI+GenomeC consultation

๏ proposing a collective realignment of funding policies that will help promote excellence in data-management practices in agency-funded projects

๏ Responses accepted up to Dec 16/2013

OPEN TEXTBOOKS๏ Recent effort to facilitate discussion of

making open textbooks available at UPEI

๏ 1st-year programs a focus, all of interest

๏ Business, Biology, Chemistry, RS

๏ 2-4th-year courses also considered

๏ Initial savings to students $30,000+

DISCUSSION