“Why Open Science matters”

AppsforGhent

Aaron Swartz

• On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by

MIT police on state breaking-and-entering

charges, after systematically downloading

academic journal articles from JSTOR

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SPARC.ORG

“dissemination of results of research is an

essential, inseparable component of the

research process”

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Wikipedia

Open science is the movement to make

scientific research, data and dissemination

accessible to all levels of an inquiring society,

amateur or professional.

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Source: clobridge consulting clobridgeconsulting.com

Why publish?

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Bagaball, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagaball/3144971358 (CC BY )9

Open Access: what is it?

• Worldwide electronic dissemination

• Of peer-reviewed research results

(publications or data)

• Free to use, free of restrictions (attribution!)

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Science for everyone to use

Source: Hack your PHD

http://hackyourphd.org/en/flyers/

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Creative Commons

Retain control over your work

Machine readable

Human readable

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Infrastructure

• Repositories:

eg. subject http://arxiv.org,

http://europepmc.org/, http://zenodo.eu

eg. Institutional http://biblio.ugent.be,

directory: http://opendoar.org

• Services: eg http://OpenAIRE.eu

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arXiv

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Europe PubMed Central

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Biblio

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Building Biblio: LibreCat.org

Software

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OpenAIRE

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(OPEN) RESEARCH DATA

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Data underlying

publications

Source: Hack your PHD

http://hackyourphd.org/en/flyers/

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Negative data is still data

Source: The Upturned Microscope, Nik

Papageorgiou

https://upmic.files.wordpress.com/201

3/06/negative-

data.png?w=545&h=1538

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• Publication

• Citation

• Archiving / curation

• Attribution

• Re-use

• Quality check

• Combine / mix

• Collaborate

• ….

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Directory: Re3data.org

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Burton, Gideon, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3156792001/ (CC BY-SA)25

Inge Van Nieuwerburgh

OpenAccess Belgium

http://openaccess.be

info@openaccess.be

Ghent University Library

Inge.VanNieuwerburgh@UGent.be

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