Open Access, Data Management plans, the pitfalls and possibilities of sharing research data

Thomas Crouzier – 14th of June 2019

Who am I?

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Research Policy Innovation

The digital science wave

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The digital science wave

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Public support to build infrastructure

Open access and open data

Where to get informed?

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Library and your favorite Research Office!

Connected researcher (http://connectedresearchers.com)

LabWorm (http://labworm.com)

400+ Tools and innovations in scholarly communication

(http://bit.ly/innoscholcomm-list)

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Electronic lab notebook

A researcher’s sidekick

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Electronic lab notebook

A pocket guide to electronic laboratory notebooks in the academic life sciences - Ulrich Dirnagl

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Electronic lab notebook

Electronic lab notebook

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• Most of the original data obtained in laboratories worldwide

is already digital and can easily be integrated to ELN.

• ELNs foster collaboration, as protocols, data and concepts

can be shared within or between groups.

• Entries can be time stamped, changes are recorded, versions

controlled.

• Protocols used frequently can simply be integrated as

templates.

• Project progress can be easily monitored by project leaders.

• ELNs are searchable, archiving is simple

Electronic lab notebook

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• Hard to get people on board

• Can be expensive (15€/user/month for labfolder)

• Hard to get everyone to use it in the same way

• Hard to use it as communication platform

• Stop worrying too much about data loss over generations

• Easy to access the data from your students

• The search function!

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Electronic lab notebook

https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/electronic-lab-notebooks

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Communication with instrumentation

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Integration with data analysis

Pre-prints

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Pre-prints

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What’s a preprint?

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“a complete written description of a body

of scientific work that has yet to be

published in a journal.”

Bourne PE, Polka JK, Vale RD, Kiley R. Ten simple rules to consider regarding preprint

submission. PLoS Computational Biology. 2017;13(5):e1005473

History

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Physics and later, other disciplines,

including mathematics, computer

science, and quantitative biology)

Now over 1 million preprints published

on arXiv

ASAPbio meeting held in February

of 2016 (http://asapbio.org)

bioRxiv and PeerJ Preprints

BioRxiv

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Number of preprints posted to

bioRxiv is rising fast

1.1 million downloads last October

alone!

Publication after bioRxiv

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42% of all preprints have

been published in a peer-

review journal

Top 10 journals to which

the papers have gone:

Why pre-prints

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1. Speed up dissemination

2. Provide a record of priority

3. Does not lead to being scooped

4. Provide access to scholarly content that would

otherwise be lost

5. Does not imply low quality

6. Does not typically preclude publication

7. Can further inform grant review and academic

advancement

In our case…

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Pre-print route:

Our article submitted to BioArxiv in February 2019

More than 270 downloads since.

Traditional publishing route:

Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials,

Advanced Functional Materials

In re-review and still not published!

What we need @KTH

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ELN as an infrastructure.

Data managers as service in our division (close to home)

Encourage pre-print presence, integrate in recruitment and

promotion policies