1. Swimming upstream:
libraries and open scholarship
Stephen Grace
orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671
Supporting Open Scholarship: An Introduction, Foundling Museum, London
18 April 2018
2. Overview
• Terminology
• Five “Schools of Thought”
• Open Publications
• Open Data and Materials
• Open Software
• Open Licensing
• Open Peer Review
• Open Metrics and Evaluation
• Roles, Relationships, Advocacy
4. Five Schools of Thought
• Democratic Access to knowledge
• Public Accessibility of knowledge creation
• Infrastructure Technical architectures/tools
• Measurement Alt-metrics
• Pragmatic More efficient methods
Fecher, Benedikt and Friesike, Sascha, Open Science: One Term,
Five Schools of Thought (May 30, 2013). RatSWD_WP_ 218.
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2272036
Fecher B., Friesike S. (2014) Open Science: One Term,
Five Schools of Thought. In: Bartling S., Friesike S. (eds)
Opening Science. Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_2
5. Open Access Publications
Much more to come from Sarah…
• Open Journals (and individual articles)
• Monographs
• OER/textbooks
• Grey literature
• Online literature (like blogs) and AV
6. Open Data and Materials
Much more to come from Carly…
• Scientists/ Academics need or want to share data
because
– Build on the work of others
– Collaborate
– New methods (data science, meta-analyses etc)
– Validation/ reproducibility
– Get credit for the data, which are worthwhile in themselves and not just as
supplementary information to articles
• Materials can include
– Physical materials (rats, tissue samples etc)
– Instruments like questionnaires, survey designs
– Database structures and ontologies – to encourage consistency in data
gathering
7. Open Research
• Data sharing agreements and controlled access to data
that isn’t open
• Open research – registering protocols and clinical trials
in advance
• Reproducibility crisis
8. Open Software
• Open Source software
• Open file formats
• Code repositories like GitHub
• Software Carpentry – teaching good
practice for researchers who aren’t
computer scientists but who create software
9. Open Licensing
To enable appropriate reuse
• Creative Commons for content
• Open Data Commons for data
• Multiple software licences
10. Open Peer Review
• Peer review has its critics…
• Open peer review makes readers aware of who is
reviewing and what they say
– Open identities WHO
– Open reports WHAT
• Prepublication and post publication methods
• Related to megajournals which review the science not
the significance
11. Open Metrics
• Alt-metrics are alternative metrics to traditional
bibliometrics
• Alternative data sources to Scopus and Web of Science
for citations, and therefore bibliometrics
12. Open Infrastructures
• Data repositories to share data
• Project collaborative environments
• Sharing tools, software code and scripts, workflows
13. Roles
• Scholarly Communications
• Research Support roles in academic libraries, research
offices or joint appointments
• Bibliometrics
• Open access infrastructures, systems, services,
training, advocacy
• RDM access infrastructures, systems, services,
training, advocacy
• Direct support for open science allocated to research
projects
– Literature searching/ systematic reviews
– Preparing data for sharing
14. Relationships
• Researchers (academic and research students)
• Research Offices
• ICT
• Graduate Schools
• Senior managers
• Funders
• Don’t forget your library colleagues!
15. Swimming upstream
• Libraries not just as curators of outputs but as partners in a
changing ecosystem
• Publications strategies for groups and individuals
• Bibliometric analysis
• Publishing platforms (like Open Journals System)
• Persistent identifiers for data, grey literature, software, equipment
• Understanding the research role better – Data Asset Framework,
Data Curation Profiles and other methodologies
16. Questions
What roles support open
scholarship at your
institution?
What scope for work in
this area?
What School of Thought
informs your activity?
Five Schools of Thought
Democratic
Access to knowledge
Public
Accessibility of knowledge creation
Infrastructure
Technical architectures/tools
Measurement
Alt-metrics
Pragmatic
More efficient methods
18. Thank you
Stephen Grace, Scholarly Communications & Repository Manager
London South Bank University
orcid.org/0000-0001-8874-2671
stephen.grace@lsbu.ac.uk
@StephenGraceful
Notas do Editor
Open Science seems to be the most established term, but social scientists arts and humanities don’t like using this term to describe what they do – at least in the Anglo-Saxon world. But global initiatives in this area usually talk about open science
Worth thinking about the language you use
Democratic school: Believing that there is an unequal distribution of access to knowledge, this area is concerned with making scholarly knowledge (including publications and data) available freely for all.
Pragmatic school: Following the principle that the creation of knowledge is made more efficient through collaboration and strengthened through critique, this area seeks to harness network effects by connecting scholars and making scholarly methods transparent.
Infrastructure school: This thread is motivated by the assumption that efficient research requires readily available platforms, tools and services for dissemination and collaboration.
Public school: Based on the recognition that true societal impact requires societal engagement in research and readily understandable communication of scientific results, this area seeks to bring the public to collaborate in research through citizen science, and make scholarship more readily understandable through lay summaries, blogging and other less formal communicative methods.
Measurement school: Motivated by the acknowledgement that traditional metrics for measuring scientific impact have proven problematic (by being too heavily focused on publications, often only at the journal-level, for instance), this strand seeks "alternative metrics" which can make use of the new possibilities of digitally networked tools to track and measure the impact of scholarship through formerly invisible activities
In the interests of openness, Ive given you two citations to the work of Fecher and Friesike – a working paper preprint in SSRN and a subsequent book chapter
Bear in mind these five schools – the assumptions and motivations they inmply – when considering the differing dimensions of open scholarship that follow.
Peer review has its critics, who say it is subjective, reinforces status quo and discriminates against young/female/diverse academics
Prepublication OPR – such as Biomed Central journals and Frontiers, where the reviewers are named and their reviews may be published.
Postpub OPR where anyone can pile in – including non-peers like members of the public (when it gets called open review)
Actually some nuances to OPR. Some journals allow reviewers names to be withheld even though their reviews are made public, and some give authors the power to choose what gets disclosed.
Altmetric shows latest alt-citations, but only subscribers see full details, and they don’t disclose their methodology for the score
Two major services are Altmetric and PlumX from Plum Analytics
Open Citations is building the Open Citations Corpus as open repository of scholarly citation data
Initiative for Open Citations The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open.
Open source repos – Eprints, Dspace, Fedora with its Samvera and Islandora flavours
Growing preponderance of CRIS systems which aren’t open source, and aren’t open because they contain private information
Collaborative environments allow multiple researchers to store, backup, share and archive their data – OSF and Dataverse
Taverna is a workflow engine, allowing researchers to join together multiple software tools and processes, and keep a provenance chain of what has happened to the data
Altmetric shows latest alt-citations, but only subscribers see full details, and they don’t disclose their methodology for the score
Two major services are Altmetric and PlumX from Plum Analytics
Open Citations is building the Open Citations Corpus as open repository of scholarly citation data
Initiative for Open Citations The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open.
Altmetric shows latest alt-citations, but only subscribers see full details, and they don’t disclose their methodology for the score
Two major services are Altmetric and PlumX from Plum Analytics
Open Citations is building the Open Citations Corpus as open repository of scholarly citation data
Initiative for Open Citations The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open.