Laying out the Principles of Open Science

laying out the principles of open science

(an abbreviated version)

kaitlin thaney program manager, science commons

open science@PSB5 january 2009

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most of the useful knowledge is inaccessible.

most of the useful knowledge is in the wrong technology.

we don’t have enough people working on it.

science commonsprinciples of open science

barcelona, spain july 2008

open access to literature from funded research

(1)

it all starts with the scholarly digital content: journals and databases

transition from “paper metaphor”

thinking of “papers” as containers of knowledge

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

“papers”

IGFBP-5 plays a role in the regulation of cellular senescence via a p53-dependent pathway and in aging-associated vascular diseases

“networked knowledge”

“ By open access to the literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting users to

read, download, copy, distribute. print, search, or link to the full texts of the 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 other than those inseparable from

gaining access to the internet itself.”

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“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 properly acknowledged and

cited.”

legal implementation

access to research tools from funded research

(2)

examples:lab mice, cell lines, DNA

... the physical materials

research materials represent an incredible investment in tacit

knowledge

the web revolutionized search, commerce, collaboration

office supplies for science

there are no office superstores

for science

no internet marketplacesfor science

everyone has to pre-authorize

through institutions

the commons allows for “some rights reserved”

options to share

solves the access problem via contract

(standardized material transfer agreements, or

MTAs)

put data from funded research in the public domain

(3)

citation, attribution via norms

ensures ability to freely distribute, copy, reformat, and integrate data from research into

new research ... without legal barriers

creates legal zones of certainty

a protocol, not a license

invest in open cyberinfrastructure

(4)

data without structure and annotation is a lost opportunity.

data should flow in an open, public, and extensible infrastructure

support recombination and reconfiguration into computer models, queryable by search

engine

treated as public good

this is only the beginning of the conversation

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readingroom/principles-for-open-science/

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