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Helping Your Researchers Get

The Credit They Deserve

@markhahnel

@figshare

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“The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve

easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for.

That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John

Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D

expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded

research freely available to the public within one year of publication and

requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data

resulting from federally funded scientific research.”

February 22nd 2013

“Investigators are expected to share with other researchers, at no more than

incremental cost and within a reasonable time, the primary data, samples, physical

collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of

work under NSF grants”

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/aag_6.jsp#VID4

“NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the

acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset”

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharingdata_sharing_guidance.htm#time

“NEH is committed to timely and rapid data distribution”

http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/data_management_plans_2012.pdf

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1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly

funded research

2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly

funded research

3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded

research

4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded

research

5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly

funded research

6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly

funded research

The Open Academic Tidal Wave

1. Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly

funded research

2. Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly

funded research

3. Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded

research

4. Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded

research

5. Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of

publicly funded research

6. Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of

publicly funded research

The Open Academic Tidal Wave

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"Products of research are not just publications.”NSF senior policy specialist Beth Strausser.

Biographical Sketch(es), has been revised to rename the “Publications”

section to “Products” and amend terminology and instructions accordingly.

13 January 2013: "National Science Foundation’s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions” Chapter II.C.2.f(i)(c),

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A cloud based research data management

system for academics and administrators:

What is figshare?

Manage their research

outputs privately and

securely, with controlled

collaborative spaces

Public repository of all

research outputs from an

institution, with impact and

usage metrics

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4 Reporting Dashboard

Impact and Usage Reporting.

Administrative Workflow Portal

A portal where administrators can manage curation of files to be

made public, storage space allocation and user rights.

Public Digital Research Repository

A customisable public portal with all digital files made public at an

institutional, departmental and group level.

Research Data Management

Private, controlled storage and collaborative spaces

for every academic at the institution.

4 Key Modules

•Incentivising compliance

•Facilitating international collaboration

•Integration into user workflows

•Quantifying impact

•Administrative curation layer

•Embargo support

•Open data principles

•Citable – with DOIs

•Increases impact of research

•Trusted Repository

•Persistent links

•Heavyweight infrastructure

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Advocacy is essential

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InstitutionsGenerating the world’s knowledge

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Thanks for your time.