1. Open Data
‘Viva la evolution’
Mark Hahnel
@MarkHahnel

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Why Open Data? - Open Government Data
•Transparency and democratic control
•Participation
•Self-empowerment
•Improved or new private products and services
•Innovation
•Improved efficiency of government services
•Improved effectiveness of government services
•Impact measurement of policies
•New knowledge from combined data sources and patterns
in large data volumes

3. Growth of Open Access - Major Publishers. Cameron Neylon. figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.650799

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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),

14. “But taxpayers who are paying for
that research will want to see
something back. Directly – through
open access to results and data.
And indirectly – through making
science work better for all of us.
That’s why we will require open
access to all publications stemming
from EU-funded research. That’s
why we will progressively open
access to the research data, too.
And why we’re asking national
funding bodies to do the same.”
Neelie Kroes.
Vice President for the Eurpoean
Commission

15. “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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“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

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• Research Integrity
• Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
• Funders’ Policies
• As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of
your research data on figshare can help promote your
research and raise your profile
• It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research
data is associated with increased citation rate’
• Simplicity
• Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.
Why Open Data? - Open Academic Data

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• Research Integrity
• Legislative Change and Regulatory Compliance
• Funders’ Policies
• As well as moral and ethical obligations, putting all of
your research data on figshare can help promote your
research and raise your profile
• It has also been reported that 'sharing detailed research
data is associated with increased citation rate’
• Simplicity
• Visualisation is cool – in the format I produced it.
Why Open Data? - Open Academic Data

21. 21Decoupling the scholarly journal. Front. Comput. Neurosci., 05 April 2012
doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00019 Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger

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So what is innovation in academic publishing?

27. Some figshare clients

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Persistent identifiers are essential

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Persistent identifiers are essential

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APIs are essential

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Open Access is essential

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Advocacy
is essential

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Academia
Generating the world’s knowledge

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Get in touch

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47. Filters

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Backed up in multiple
institutions around the world
DOIs provided by DataCite at
the California Digital Library
Adhere to ethics of academic
publishing, as per guidelines
ORCID launch partner, files to
be pushed to author profiles
All content hosted on AWS with
triple file storage, fast load times
and unbeatable uptime

52. figshare for Institutions
• Large amounts of secure private storage
space and unlimited public space.
• Detailed metrics on publicly available data.
• Ability to push research to any internal
repository.
• Subject categorisation per department.
• Collaborative spaces.
• Create your own institutional repo:
institution.figshare.com
• All data is citable, visualisable, embeddable
and trackable.
• Can be used securely by any number of
users.
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Desktop Uploader
The figshare desktop uploader allows
for quick and easy upload of your
research outputs, straight from your
desktop. You can upload many files at
once and the uploader supports
resumable uploads. This means if your
internet connection drops, you don’t
need to start the uploads again.
All files are uploaded into your private
space on figshare, where you can
chose whether to make them public or
manage them privately.

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