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Research Publication and Dissemination
A funding agency perspective
Martin Hynes
[email protected]
www.ircset.ie
17 July 2015
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Historical setting
• It is tempting for an engineer to think of the
technological enablers---however:
– Historically I would have to recognize the
development of Lascaux cave painting and later,
written communication
– In this venue, certainly the Royal Library at
Alexandria and the development of institutional
libraries-– As well as the 1837 Dewey Decimal Classification
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However, it really started with the mouseThe first mouse: 1967
Lascaux cave drawing: 14,000 BC
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Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart b. 1925
• Engelbart reasoned that the state of our
current technology controls our ability to
manipulate information, and that fact in turn
will control our ability to develop new,
improved technologies.
• His team at Augmentation Research Center
invented hypertext (precursor of the WWW)
and he was main promoter of NLS, oN Line
System.
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AUGMENTING HUMAN INTELLECT: A
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK October 1962
This is an open plea to researchers and to those who ultimately
motivate, finance, or direct them, to turn serious attention toward the
possibility of evolving a dynamic discipline that can-treat the problem
of improving intellectual effectiveness in a total sense. This discipline
should aim at producing a continuous cycle of improvements-increased understanding of the problem, improved means for
developing new augmentation systems, and improved augmentation
systems that can serve the world's problem solvers in general and this
discipline's workers in particular.
Why not consider developing a discipline aimed at understanding and
harnessing "neural power?" In the long run, the power of the human
intellect is really much the more important of the two.
Policy setting
• OECD Declaration, 30+ countries
http://www.oecd.org/document/0,2340,en_2649_34487_25998799_1_1_1_1,00.html
• Coordinated efforts at national and international levels
are needed to broaden access to data from publicly
funded research and contribute to the advancement of
scientific research and innovation. To this effect,
Ministers adopted a Declaration entrusting the OECD to
work towards commonly agreed Principles and
Guidelines on Access to Research Data from Public
Funding.
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Some text from Declaration
• Protection of intellectual property: describing ways to obtain open access
under the different legal regimes of copyright or other intellectual property
law applicable to databases as well as trade secrets.
• Recognising the substantial benefits that science, the economy and
society at large could gain from the opportunities that expanded use of
digital data resources have to offer, and recognising the risk that undue
restrictions on access to and use of research data from public funding
could diminish the quality and efficiency of scientific research and
innovation
• Recognising that optimum availability of research data from public funding
for developing countries will enhance their participation in the global
science system, thereby contributing to their social and economic
development
EURAB Recommendation
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http://ec.europa.eu/research/eurab/pdf/eurab_scipub_report_recomm_dec06_en.pdf
• Note: acknowledgement to Niamh Brennan, TCD.
• Basis for IRCSET Consultation in 2007
• More recently, European Green Paper
http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/pdf/era_gp_final_en.pdf.
“Is there a need for EU-level policies and practices to
improve and ensure open access to and
dissemination of raw data and peer-reviewed
publications from publicly funded research results?”
IRCSET Policy 1
1. All researchers must lodge their publications resulting
in whole or in part from IRCSET-funded research in an
open access repository as soon as possible after
publication, to be made openly accessible within 6
months at the latest.
2. The repository may be a local institutional repository
and/or a subject repository;
3. Authors should deposit post-prints (or publisher’s
version if permitted) plus metadata of articles accepted
for publication in peer-reviewed journals and
international conference proceedings;
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IRCSET Policy 2
4.Deposit should be made upon acceptance by the journal/conference.
Repositories should release the metadata immediately, with access
restrictions to full text article to be applied as required. Open access
should be available as soon as practicable after the authorrequested embargo, or six month, whichever comes first;
5.Suitable repositories should make provision for long-term
preservation of, and free public access to, published research
findings.
IUA Librarians Group April 2007
• http://www.irel-open.ie/
• Funded by SIF, the IUA Librarians’ Group is presently
establishing a system of institutional repositories in each
of the IUA member institutions and a single national
portal hosted by Expertise Ireland, populated from the
content harvested from the local Institutional Repositories
and offering additional national services. All such content
will be subject to the existing quality controls in academic
publishing, such as peer review.
Issues arising during consultation
• Uniform support for implementation
• Institutional or subject specific? E.g. the
Astrophysics and Physics “preprint server”
The consensus on this seems quite clear; use
institutional repositories with appropriate
rights to replicate.
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Cost of publishing
• Guesstimated to be less than 1% of research
funded.
• Initial impetus from IUA / Librarians’ Group
initiative funded by SIF complementing
institutional approaches.
• Council has expressed willingness to review
eligible costs on awards.
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Peer review
• It is vital to preserve the benchmark of peer
review; this is explicitly acknowledged in the
IREL-Open initiative.
• Some recognition of other dynamics of
publication / communication
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Time from review to publication
• Deposit metadata directly
• 6 months to full publication
• Some advocate ongoing review of this waiting
period, since SHERPA (for example) advocate
that full text be made available at the same
time as the metadata.
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Protection of rights
• Surprisingly, no detailed inputs received on
this area.
• Further discussion indicated with appropriate
stakeholders, e.g. Technology Transfer
officers and VP research—as implementation
issue
• Guidance from OECD and other work.
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In Summary
• IRCSET have adopted the policy proposed June 2007
• Provision made for OA in the most recent
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Postdoctoral Fellows and Scholarship Conditions.
Need for some final interaction with stakeholders on
ability to implement.
Peters projection; the “Greenland” problem