Leeds blog post on publishers and data access statements

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From: Nick Sheppard <N.Sheppard@leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:02 AM
Subject: Publishers and data access statements
To: RESEARCH-DATAMAN@jiscmail.ac.uk

Hi all

We’ve posted a blog about some of the issues we’ve encountered with publishers and data access statements, grateful for any comment:

https://leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/publishers-and-data-access-statements/

Thanks

Nick

Nick Sheppard

Research Data Management (RDM) Advisor I Research Data Leeds

Leeds University Library

0113 343 8956

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/

https://researchdata.leeds.ac.uk

Council of the European Union calls for full open access to scientific research by 2020 - Creative Commons blog post

Taken from: https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/05/27/council-european-union-calls-full-open-access-scientific-research-2020/?utm_content=buffer31966&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 

A few weeks ago we wrote about how the European Union is pushing ahead its support for open access to EU-funded scientific research and data. Today at the meeting of the Council of the European Union, the Council reinforced the commitment to making all scientific articles and data openly accessible and reusable by 2020. In its communication, the Council offered several conclusions on the transition towards an open science system:

• ACKNOWLEDGES that open science has the potential to increase the quality, impact and benefits of science and to accelerate advancement of knowledge by making it more reliable, more efficient and accurate, better understandable by society and responsive to societal challenges, and has the potential to enable growth and innovation through reuse of scientific results by all stakeholders at all levels of society, and ultimately contribute to growth and competitiveness of Europe;

• INVITES the Commission and the Member States to explore legal possibilities for measures in this respect and promote the use of licensing models, such as Creative Commons, for scientific publications and research data sets;

• WELCOMES open access to scientific publications as the option by default for publishing the results of publicly funded research;

• AGREES to further promote the mainstreaming of open access to scientific publications by continuing to support a transition to immediate open access as the default by 2020;

• ENCOURAGES the Member States, the Commission and stakeholders to set optimal reuse of research data as the point of departure, whilst recognising the needs for different access regimes because of Intellectual Property Rights, personal data protection and confidentiality, security concerns, as well as global economic competitiveness and other legitimate interests.

You can read the rest of the conclusions here. Crucially, the Council said that “open access to scientific publications” will be interpreted as being aligned to the definition laid out in the Budapest Open Access Initiative: free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Taken from:https://blog.creativecommons.org/2016/05/27/council-european-union-calls-full-open-access-scientific-research-2020/?utm_content=buffer31966&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

European Commission's View on Increasing Access to Research Information

In this Communication to the European Parliament, the European Commission highlights the importance of increasing public access to research information:

"It is estimated that government investments of $3.8 billion in the Human Genome Project, a U.S. co-ordinated research endeavour including major European contributions, have had an economic impact worth $796 billion, created 310 000 jobs and launched the genome revolution."

https://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_en.pdf

The Role of Research Data in Public Health Policies - the Case of Tamiflu

In this episode of Catalyst produced by the ABC, Dr Maryanne Demasi examines issues surrounding access to research data relating to Tamiflu.

https://youtu.be/Wiqb9U3hup0

Data Access Plans

http://www.nature.com/news/funders-must-encourage-scientists-to-share-1.17718?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150611

"Today, we publish our recommendations (see www.wellcome.ac.uk/EAGDA). They are aimed at research funders, who are best placed to implement them. But we hope that all researchers will find them useful. A key recommendation is that data-access plans should be integral to the grant-application process."

An upgrade from the Data management plan to the Data ACCESS plan.

Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT): A Joint Statement by Political Science Journal Editors

From the “Workshop on Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) in Political Science.” Convened by the American Political Science Association (APSA) and hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), with support from Syracuse University’s Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI), and the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies (CPS).

September 18-19, 2014, Ann Arbor, MI

October 6, 2014

In this joint statement, journal editors commit their respective journals to the principles of data access and research transparency, and to implementing policies requiring authors to make as accessible as possible the empirical foundation and logic of inquiry of evidence-based research.

http://media.wix.com/ugd/fa8393_da017d3fed824cf587932534c860ea25.pdf

Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001975

Abstract

As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers—alongside funders, institutions, and libraries—are expanding their role to address this need. Here we outline eight recommendations and a set of suggested action items for publishers to promote and contribute to increasing access to data. This call to action emerged from a summit that brought together data stewardship leaders across stakeholder groups. The recommendations were subsequently refined by the community as a result of public input gathered online and in meetings.

Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT): A Joint Statement by Political Science Journal Editors

Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT): A Joint Statement by Political Science Journal Editors 
From the “Workshop on Data Access and Research Transparency (DA-RT) in Political Science.” Convened by the American Political Science Association (APSA) and hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for  Political and Social Research (ICPSR), with support from Syracuse University’s Center for Qualitative and  Multi-Method Inquiry (CQMI), and the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies (CPS).

In this joint statement, journal editors commit their respective journals to the principles of data access and research transparency, and to implementing policies requiring authors to make as accessible as
possible the empirical foundation and logic of inquiry of evidence-based research.

A Commitment to Data Access and Research Transparency
Transparency requires making visible both the empirical foundation and the logic of inquiry of research.
We agree that by January 15, 2016 we will:

1. Require authors to ensure that cited data are available at the time of publication through a
trusted digital repository.iii Journals may specify which trusted digital repository shall be used
(for example if they have their own dataverse).
• If cited data are restricted (e.g., classified, require confidentiality protections, were
obtained under a non-disclosure agreement, or have inherent logistical constraints),
authors must notify the editor at the time of submission. The editor shall have full
discretion to follow their journal’s policy on restricted data, including declining to review
the manuscript or granting an exemption with or without conditions. The editor shall
inform the author of that decision prior to review.

2. Require authors to delineate clearly the analytic procedures upon which their published claims
rely, and where possible to provide access to all relevant analytic materials. If such materials are
not published with the article, they must be shared to the greatest extent possible through a
trusted digital repository.

3. Maintain a consistent data citation policy to increase the credit that data creators and suppliers
receive for their work. These policies include using data citation practices that identify a
dataset’s author(s), title, date, version, and a persistent identifier. In sum, we will require authors
who base their claims on data created by others to reference and cite those data as an
intellectual product of value.

4. Ensure that journal style guides, codes of ethics, publication manuals, and other forms of
guidance are updated and expanded to include improved data access and research transparency
requirements.

Read the whole statement:  http://media.wix.com/ugd/fa8393_da017d3fed824cf587932534c860ea25.pdf

Satellites: Make Earth observations open access

Freely available satellite imagery will improve science and environmental-monitoring products, say Michael A. Wulder and Nicholas C. Coops.

NASA

The Landsat 8 satellite launched in February 2013 (artist's impression).

A new era of open-access satellite data has arrived. In 2008, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released for free to the public its Landsat archive, which dates back to the 1970s and is the world's largest collection of Earth imagery². Greater computing power is also enabling scientists to manipulate big data representing larger areas and with greater sophistication, to produce multibillion-pixel composite maps of land cover and change across regions, continents and the globe. Monitoring land-cover change in near-real time is now a reality.

http://www.nature.com/news/satellites-make-earth-observations-open-access-1.15804

Visualizing 800,000 public comments about net neutrality

Ignoring the politics inherent in this - it is a pretty amazing data visualisation.

And the data is available for download so you can do your own analysis.

Graphic credit: Sunlight Foundation. 

On Aug. 5, the Federal Communications Commission announced the bulk release of the comments from its largest-ever public comment collection. We've spent the last three weeks cleaning and preparing the data and leveraging our experience in machine learning and natural language processing to try and make sense of the hundreds-of-thousands of comments in the docket. Here is a high-level overview, as well as our cleaned version of the full corpus which is available for download in the hopes of making further research easier.

Our first exploration uses natural language processing techniques to identify topical keywords within comments and use those keywords to group comments together. We analyzed a corpus of 800,959 comments. Some key findings:

• We estimate that less than 1 percent of comments were clearly opposed to net neutrality1.
• At least 60 percent of comments submitted were form letters written by organized campaigns (484,692 comments); while these make up the majority of comments, this is actually a lower percentage than is common for high-volume regulatory dockets.
• At least 200 comments came from law firms, on behalf of themselves or their clients.

The interactive visualization that lets you explore these groupings and view individual comments within the groups.

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/09/02/what-can-we-learn-from-800000-public-comments-on-the-fccs-net-neutrality-plan/

50 Years of Data on Lemurs and Other Small Primates

The Duke Lemur Center has unveiled a database of life history data on 3,600 animals representing 27 species of lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Scientists tracked all kinds of information about the tropical primates as they lived and died over 50 years, including information on growth, diet, behavior, offspring, and cause of death. Because lemurs are dying out due to habitat encroachment, Duke scientists say it is unlikely that a data set of this size will ever be recreated. The data set’s creators hope the information will help research institutions and zoos better care for these animals in captivity and help conservationists better protect them in the wild.

Found on: http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/08/50-years-of-data-on-lemurs-and-other-small-primates/
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Amakukha

Privacy in health care - brief ABC interview with A/Prof John Glover. Discusses use of health and spatial data to aid policy development and health service provision, and challenges faced by strict data (non)release policies for MBS data. Discusses privacy issues around health data.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/hr-john-glover/5235168

Opening Up Scholarly communications: Jisc & CNI conference - slides etc are available

Jisc and CNI conference 2014

Opening up scholarly communications

The 2014 Jisc/CNI conference brought together leading experts from the UK, US and Europe to explore the theme of opening up scholarly communications through the four key themes of:

• policy
• data
• access
• infrastructure

This event took place 10 July 2014

Slides available: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/jisc-and-cni-conference-2014-10-jul-2014