key_elements.md

Learning Objectives:

LO1a: Understand the ethical, legal, social, economic, and research impact arguments for and against Open Science (knowledge).

LO1b: Set up a personal profile for defining your impact: measure the social and academic attention on the full range of research processes and outputs (tasks).

Key components:

• What is "Open Science", and why should we care.

• History of Open Science and Open Cultures.

• Differences and commonalities in understanding and interpretation of the term.

• Communities and diversity, inclusivity, fairness, equity, social behaviour, accountability, ethics and responsibility.

• Open Science on a global scale.

• How Open Science influences your career now and the future of research evaluation.

• Open licensing, copyright, and speaking ‘legalise’.

• The different dimensions of Open Science (e.g., Open Access, Open Data, Open Peer Review).

• What are some of the barriers to Open Science, and why.

• Open science and reproducible research: 2 sides of the same coin?

• Open science in daily work: design your workflow with sharing in mind and invest time early.

Who to involve:

• Individuals: Erin McKiernan, Michael Eisen, Katja Mayer, Steven Hill, Cameron Neylon, Peter Kraker, Bianca Kramer, Jeroen Bosman, Ahmed Ogunlaja, Stephanie Wright.

• Organisations: Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), including SPARC EU, OpenCon community and regional groups, HEFCE, NESTA, Mozilla Science Lab (and the Open Leadership Cohort), Global Open Science Hardware (GOScH) Community. Creative Commons Center for Open Science (plus their ambassadors cohort), OCSD network, ORCID.

• Other: The Force11 Scholarly Commons Working Group.

Key resources:

Tools

• The Open Science Training Initiative.

• Why Open Research, Erin McKiernan.

• Transparent and Open Social Science MOOC, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS).

• Rainbow of Open Science practices (Kramer and Bosman, 2018).

• Creative Commons license chooser.

  • Open Content - A practical guide to using Creative Commons licenses/the Creative Commons licensing scheme.

• Open Research Glossary, Right to Research Coalition.

• Scholarly Communications super-collection, ScienceOpen.

• Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools.

• FOSTER Open Science Training Courses.

Research Articles and Reports

• Open science is a research accelerator (Woelfle et al., 2011).

• ORCID: A system to uniquely identify researchers (Haak et al., 2012).

• The Conundrum of Sharing Research Data (Borgman, 2012)

• Open Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing (Bartling and Friesike, 2014).

• Open Science: one term, five schools of thought (Fecher and Friesike, 2014).

• From Open Science to Open Innovation (Chesbrough, 2015).

• Winning Research Grants with Open Science (Grigorov et al., 2015).

• Promoting transparency in social science research (Miguel et al., 2014).

• Promoting an open research culture (Nosek et al., 2015).

• When will 'open science' become simply 'science'? (Watson, 2015).

• How does one "open" science? Questions of value in biological research (Levin and Leonelli, 2016).

• Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights (White House, 2016).

• Providing researchers with the skills and competencies they need to practice Open Science: Open Science Skills Working Group Report (European Commission, 2017).

• Do you speak open science? Resources and tips to learn the language (Masuzzo and Martens, 2017).

• Early-career researchers' perceptions of the prevalence of questionable research practices, potential causes, and Open Science (Stürmer et al., 2017).

• Making Science Transparent By Default; Introducing the TOP Statement (Aalbersberg et al., 2018).

• Defining success in Open Science (Ali-Khan et al., 2018).

• Open Science is liberating and can foster creativity (Frankenhuis and Nettle, 2018).

• Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change (LERU, 2018).

• Open Educational Science (van der See and Reich, 2018).

Key posts

• Anatomy of an Open Science Paper, Matt Todd.

• Changing hiring practices towards research transparency: The first open science statement in a professorship advertisement, Felix Schoenbrodt.

• The SV-POW Tutorials include a helpful definition of Open Access and clarifications on licensing, copyright and related topics (Tutorial 19).

• Science 2.0 repositories: Time for a change in scholarly communication (Assante et al., 2015).

• Power and inequality in Open Science discourses, Denisse Albornoz.

• Clash of cultures: Why all science isn't open science, Daniel Katz.

• Preliminary Findings: Rent Seeking by Elsevier, Alejandro Posada.

• Reassessing the Digital Commons, Marianne Corvellec and Jeanne Corvellec.

• A list of publicly available grant proposals in the biological sciences (Jabberwocky).

• Open Science and its Discontents Alex Lancaster

• GENDERACTION: Enhancing the gender dimension of Open Science and Open Innovation policies, OpenAIRE.

Other

• The Open Science Manifesto, OCSD Net.

• The Open Definition, The Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Vienna Principles: A vision for scholarly communication.

• A short lecture on Open Licensing (Lorena, 2017; presenter notes also on SpeakerDeck. Bonus interview).

• The Panton Principles of Open Science.

• List of advocacy organisations for Open Access, Open Access Directory.

• OpenCitations and the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).

• The Knowledge Gap: Geopolitics of Academic Production.

• The Open Archives Initiative - Standards for Web content interoperability.

• Force11 Scholarly Commons Working Group charters database.

• Open Science 101, Konrad Förstner (CC0).

• 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman (interactive version).

• Open Science 101 (OK Science Deutschland).

• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

• Open Research 2015 (P2PU).

  • The accompanying textbook (Pitt et al., 2016).

• Intersections of Openness: Open Access, Science, & Education, Abby Elder.

• GO FAIR initiative, a bottom-up international approach for the practical implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as part of a global Internet of FAIR Data & Services

Tasks:

• Get an ORCID account, and fill out your profile. This is a unique identifier for you as a researcher.

• Get a Publons account, integrate with your new ORCID, and valorise your reviewer effort!

• Get an ImpactStory account, and integrate with ORCID, showcase your output (not just publications)!

• Write a summary about Open Access efforts either on your research discipline and/or in your country. If you have a website or blog, post it there.

  • Were the data for this easy to acquire? Which sources did you use?

• Look at the status of Open Science in your research group or lab. Make a note of who is doing what. What could be improved?

• Define clearly what Open Science means to you. Have a conversation about it with a colleague. Then, find someone from a different country, and have another conversation about Open Science.

• Find out the policies are in your department or institute regarding:

  • Career progression and assessment.

  • Publishing and Open Access.

  • Data sharing.

  • Intellectual Property (IP).

• Identify any disciplinary repositories either for research articles or data.