Nature wants my data… Now what?5 Things You Need to Know About Open Science and Open Data

Robin Champieux, MLIS

Danielle Robinson, NGP

Daniela Saderi, NGP

Jackie Wirz, PhD

My research is awesomeNature thinks its awesome.

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What should I do?

Ugh, I just need to graduate!!

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Definitions

What’s required now

What’s coming down the pipe…

What’s going on in the field<big and small (ish)>

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What’s going on at OHSU

1 | DefinitionsWhat does it all mean?

Data Sharing

Sharing primary data

Allowing others to use your data

Open Science

Transparent methods, shared analysis code

Publically accessible data, freely shared

Open Access

Digital, online, free

Publically accessible

Creative Commons Attribution-Only (CC-BY)

The “-ables” of good data-sharing practice

• DISCOVERABLE. Make your data searchable!

• ACCESSIBLE. Make your data downloadable!

• INTELLIGIBLE. Make your data understandable by both human and

machine!

• ASSESSABLE. Make your data evaluable!

• USABLE. Make your data actionable!

Ferguson et al., 2014

2 | What’s required now?Funder & Journal Policies

For grants over $500,000, a data sharing

plan must be included in the grant

application and incorporated as a term and

condition of the award.

Final Research Data "should be made as

widely and freely available as possible while

safeguarding the privacy of participants, and

protecting confidential and proprietary data".

NIH

Journals

It’s not just open access journals.

High impact journals, such Nature, Cell,

Science, Neuron, and Nature Neuroscience,

and are leading the charge with

uncompromising data sharing requirements:

Condition of Publication

Shared in a Public Repository

Reproducibility

3 | What’s coming?

In a policy memorandum released in 2013,

OSTP Director John Holdren directed

Federal agencies with more than $100M in

R&D expenditures to develop plans to make

the results of federally funded research

freely available to the public—generally

within one year of publication.

OSTP

Resources

http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-access/public-access-mandates-for-federally-funded-research/

FASTR

Fair Access to Science and Technology

Research Act

“American taxpayers fund billions in

research that unlocks breakthroughs in

technology, science, medicine and dozens

of other disciplines. By taking that research

out from behind paywalls, the FASTR Act

will promote new innovations and give

America a better return on its investment”

4 | What’s going on in the field?Good practices -> Big Data -> Small(ish) Data

Solutions!!

Repositories

Allen Institute

BIG

Small(ish)

A mouse, a neuroscientist, and a librarian

walk into a bar…

THE DATA

5 | What’s going on at OHSU?Make it meaningful -> Open Insight

Manage thyself

Open Insight

You are the future of science & scientific

communication. It’s also your job to make it

better.

The Library wants to help.

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Nature wants my data… Now what?5 Things You Need to Know About Open Science and Open Data

Robin Champieux, MLIS

Danielle Robinson, NGP

Daniela Saderi, NGP

Jackie Wirz, PhD

Why is data sharing important?

We have a Common Goal… don’t we?

• Working together toward that

Common Goal

• Increasing the value of our efforts

• Increasing data reuse by third

parties

• Decreasing monetary and human

time waste

• Increasing transparency and

reproducibility

• “My data is often too complex to

be understood by others.”

• “If someone else analyzes my

data, they may find flaws in it, or

even worst, find different answers

that disprove my perspective.”

• “I worked very hard to collect my

data and no one else has the

right to it.”

• “I have not finished analyzing my

data, and I will make it available

once my analysis is done.”

S.H. Koslow, 2000

Why is data sharing important?

“The degree of complexity of neuroscience data is a sufficient

reason both for sharing and for not sharing primary data.

Sharing data should make research more efficient and greatly

facilitate our understanding of brain function. The intellectual

challenges are identical with or without data sharing. Sharing

increases the value of the data and provides new knowledge

and understanding.”

Stehpen H. Kolsow