Open Science, Why not?

AgreenSkills – Open Science, Why Not ?

Paris, 15 February 2017 Nancy Pontika & Ivo Grigorov

on behalf of FP7 FOSTER

www.fosteropenscience.eu

Source : Embedding open science practices within evaluation systems can promote research that meets societal needs in developing countries, LSE Impact Blog Jan 2017 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/. Image credit: 2 by Mundial Perspectives

“ academic impact trumps excellence and relevance together, the cost of which is researchers deviating

from paths they would have followed were the incentive structures different.

If researchers continue to be assessed using such narrow criteria, scientific research

activities will become further dislocated from the needs of the society “

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Open Access Citation Advantagehttp://sparceurope.org/oaca/

Open Access Publication Funds

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_publication_funds

http://www.oacompact.org/

http://sparceurope.org/analysis-of-funder-open-access-policies-around-the-world/

Know your way around OA services & tools

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php Sherpa Romeo

https://doaj.org/

Open Access Policies

http://roarmap.eprints.org/

Source: Houghton, J., Swan, A. & Brown, S. Access to research and technical information in Denmark. (2011) http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272603

19% of the processes developed would have been delayed or abandoned without access to research

a 2.2 years delay would cost around EUR 5 million per firm in lost sales

Does #OpenScience contribute to Economic Growth?

www.fosteropenscience.eu

“Open Science is applied to optimise reproducibility” Excellence

Impact

Implementation

“data accessibility is unclear!”

“data storage & access not considered”

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“Open Access to scientific knowledge is an essential principle in the project, but there is not enough information on data management or IPR.”

Can #OpenScience win Research Grants?(quotes from EC Evaluators 2014-2017)

“replace research impact indicators beyond the typical bibliometrics and

patenting”

Source: Horizon2020 Societal Challenge 6, WP 2017 “Better integration of evidence on the impact of research and innovation in policy making” https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/co-creation-08-2016-2017.html

“ two out of five studies substantially reproduced

research findings, although not all experiments met thresholds of

statistical significance ”

Nature 541, 19 Jan 2017, doi:10.1038/541269aeLife elifesciences.org/collections/reproducibility-project-cancer-biology

Stanley Flegler/Visuals Unlimited, Inc./Science Photo Library

Benefits of machine readability & TDMhttps://core.ac.uk/

• Improve productivity in the curation of biomedical literature by 50%• Accelerate drug discovery, reducing the 10-12 year average timeframe

from discovery to market• Improves understanding of climate impact in the agro-industry• Helping to predict epidemics

Source: TDM in Public Research, 2016http://adbu.fr/competplug/uploads/2016/12/TDM-in-Public-Research-Revised-15-Dec-16.pdf

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