Open Access to Research DataWestminster Briefing

Dr Danny KingsleyHead, Office of Scholarly Communication

University of Cambridge9 December 2015

What are we trying to achieve?

“Publicly funded research data are a public good (…) which should be made openly available with as few restrictions as possible…”

RCUK Common Principles on Data Policyhttp://www.rcuk.ac.uk/researchdatapolicy

Note AHRC does not require open access to data

In place since 2011

Sharpening minds

Cambridge activities 2015

It has been a big year!

Award size <£100k£100k - £500k

£0.5m - £2m

£2m - £5m >£5m

Number of awards in this category per year 111 186 95 23 11Proposed charge (in £) per grant in this category 165 450 450 450 450Revenue from each grant category (in £) 16,650 74,400 38,000 9,200 4,400Total revenue from grants per year (in £) 160,065Total Facility cost per year 159,543

www.data.cam.ac.uk

Huge engagement programme

Open Data Panel Discussion

https://upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2113537

https://storify.com/CamOpenData/odpd15

https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=392

www.repository.cam.ac.uk

In conversation with…• Ben Ryan, EPSRC, May 2015• “EPSRC are trying to create a new research culture, and

they are primarily focused on what the institution should be doing to support that.”

• https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=151

• Michael Ball, BBSRC August 2015• “The take home messages from the meeting were the

importance of:– Disciplines themselves establishing ways of dealing with data– Thinking about how to deal with data from the beginning of a

research project”• https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=337

Frequently Asked Questions• They really are!• From discussion

with over 1300 researchers

• Approved by EPSRC

http://www.data.cam.ac.uk/data-faq

RCUK guidelines• http

://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/datapolicy/

• Not well communicated

• Dated July 2015

Constant outreach

Twitter: @CamOpenData

Newsletter sign up: www.data.cam.ac.uk

Postcards & banners

All promotional materials can be downloaded from www.lib.cam.ac.uk/librarians/oa/oa_promo.html

Money talks

And it is quiet out there

Charge for storage (over 1GB)

Staffing the serviceHead of

Scholarly Communicati

on

Repository Integration

Manager

Open Access Research Advisors

(x3)

Research Repository

Assistants (x2)

Research Data Facility

Manager

Research Repository Assistant

Repository Manager

Communications and

Marketing Coordinator

Funder requirements

Option for supporting service

Option for supporting service

We are discussing options• How do you fund the resource to

meet the requirements? – Flat charge– Graduated charge depending on size of

grant– Percentage of grant– Proportion with number of FTE on grant

• Even if we do put it on the grants we have a transition period

What we will be doing in 2016

• Upgrade DSpace from V4.3 to V5.X– Mint DOIs (we have a DataCite licence)– Collect information on data requestors– Statistics of data use– Rebrand the ‘look and feel’

• Data display through VIVO• Communication across the whole research lifecycle

(a big project)• Participation in pilot of Jisc Shared Repository Service• Discussion with funders about support for the

services

Thanks and questions• Email:

– info@data.cam.ac.uk– info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk– info@osc.cam.ac.uk

• Web:– www.data.cam.ac.uk– www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk– www.osc.cam.ac.uk

• Unlocking Research blog:– https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/

• Twitter: – @CamOpenData– @dannykay68 – @CamOpenAccess