OPEN RESEARCH DATAJessica Gallinger

Systems & Data Services Librarian

Okanagan College

INTRODUCTION TO OPEN ACCESS

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, described knowledge in the

following way: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening

mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." In doing so,

Jefferson anticipated the modern concept of a public good.

… A public good [depends on] non-rivalrous consumption – the consumption of one individual

does not detract from that of [another]. Knowledge of a mathematical theorem clearly satisfies

[this] attributes: if I teach you the theorem, I continue to enjoy the knowledge of the theorem at

the same time that you do.

Stiglitz (1999). Knowledge as a Global Public Good.

OUTLINE

Introduction to Open Access

What is open research data?

What are some examples of open data?

Merits of publishing research data

Finding repositories

Finding datasets

Research data management

References

Appendixes

WHAT IS OPEN RESEARCH DATA?

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WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF OPEN DATA?

Example: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Example: Kelowna Open Data Catalogue

Example: Abacus Dataverse Network

MERITS OF PUBLISHING DATA

May citation frequency

permits mashups

May integrity

Metadata record discoverability

searchability

contact-ability

* Data repositories accept null results

* Data repositories help you comply with Tri-Council funding requirements

Sharing Detailed Research Data Is

Associated with Increased Citation

Rate: Principal Findings

[The study] examined the citation history

of 85 cancer microarray clinical trial

publications with respect to the

availability of their data. The 48% of

trials with publicly available microarray

data received 85% of the aggregate

citations. Publicly available data was

significantly (p = 0.006) associated with

a 69% increase in citations,

independently of journal impact factor,

date of publication, and author country

of origin using linear regression.

FINDING REPOSITORIES

Types of repositories:

Un/curated

Restricted use vs on demand

Disclosure risk

Digital preservation (or not)

Registry of Research Data Repositories > re3data.org

FINDING DATASETS

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANS

DMP Assistant is a bilingual tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs). The tool follows best practices in data stewardship and walks researchers step-by-step through key questions about data management.

REFERENCES

King, Gary. (2007). An Introduction to the Dataverse Network as an Infrastructure for Data Sharing. Sociological Methods and Research 36: 173-199. copy at http://j.mp/iHJcAa

Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB. (2007). Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Stiglitz, J. (1999). Knowledge as a global public good, in Kaul, I., Grunberg, I. and Stern, M. (eds.), Global Public Goods: International cooperation in the 21st century. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 308–325.

Wicherts JM, Bakker M, Molenaar D. (2011). Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results. PLoS ONE 6(11): e26828. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026828

Willinsky, J. (2010). Open access and academic reputation. Annals of Library and Information Studies 57: pp. 296-302 http://goo.gl/UzTAW

APPENDIX OF RESOURCES

Highlighted repositories:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Kelowna Open Data Catalogue

Abacus Dataverse Network

Registry of Research Data Repositories: re3data.org

DataCite Metadata Search

Portage DMP Assistant

APPENDIX: TRI-COUNCIL POLICIES

Funding Agency Open Data Policies

SSHRC : Research Data Archiving Policy

NSERC : Responsibilities and Accountability (see: Intellectual Property)

CIHR : Tri-Agency Open Access Policy: Publication-related Research Data