Wellcome Trust releases updated open access policy in line with Plan S
The Wellcome Trust announced this week that it has updated its open access policy, following a six-month review. Effective from the 1st January 2020, there are five key changes:
All Wellcome-funded research articles must be made freely available through PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC at the time of publication.
All articles must be published under a Creative Commons attribution licence (CC-BY).
The cost of OA publishing costs in subscription journals (‘hybrid OA’) will no longer be covered by Wellcome.
When there is a significant public health benefit to preprints being shared widely and rapidly, such as a disease outbreak, these preprints must be published on an approved platform that supports immediate publication of the complete manuscript under a CC-BY licence.
Wellcome-funded organisations must sign or publicly commit to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - DORA (or an equivalent) and we may ask organisations to show that they’re complying with this as part of our organisation audits. This is a new requirement to encourage institutions to consider the intrinsic merit of the work, not the title of the journal or publisher, when making promotion and tenure decisions.
The updated policy is fully in line with Plan S, the OA policy framework developed by the European Commission and Science Europe. Plan S is endorsed by major funders across Europe, including UK Research and Innovation and the European Research Council.
It's International Data Week 2018 and #SciDataCon is underway!
SciDataCon 2018, the international conference for scrutiny and discussion of the frontier issues of data in research, is taking place in Botswana this week as part of International Data Week 2018.
The programme covers policy matters and the place of data in scientific endeavour and scholarly communications; the opportunities of the data revolution for global research enterprise; innovations in data science and data stewardship; and the challenge of developing a sustainable data ecosystem, including the role of education and capacity building.
Follow #scidatacon on Twitter for the latest discussion.
The state of open data 2018: Figshare's annual report released
Figshare’s annual report, The State of Open Data, looks at global attitudes towards open data. It includes survey results of researchers and a collection of articles from industry experts, as well as a foreword from Ross Wilkinson, Director, Global Strategy at Australian Research Data Commons.
The report is the third in the series and the survey results continue to show encouraging progress that open data is becoming more embedded in the research community. The key finding is that open data has become more embedded in the research community – 64% of survey respondents reveal they made their data openly available in 2018. However, a surprising number of respondents (60%) had never heard of the FAIR principles, a guideline to enhance the reusability of academic data.
Explore the outputs of the Dataset Licencing Project
Jisc's Dataset Licensing Project aims to offer guidance and support to creators and consumers of data to help them easily understand dataset usage and choose the most appropriate licence to release their dataset under. It also provide guidance for use in the Jisc Research Data Shared Service.
The project has been extended until July 2019, and the version 1.0 outputs from the project so far are now available on the Dataset Licencing blog.
New resources for the Open Science MOOC
Content created for the Open Science MOOC is rolled out as soon as it is produced, so that people can begin using it right away. The material is openly licensed for as wide sharing and re-use as possible - you are encouraged to do both of these things, as well as provide any feedback so that future content in development can be improved!
Recent additions to the MOOC are:
a half hour audio companion to the module on Open Research Software and Open Source which you can access on YouTube or on Soundcloud.
a screencast guide to setting up your first GitHub repository which you can watch via YouTube.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) requests feedback on proposed changes
The NIH is updating its 2003 Data Sharing Policy and your input is requested. Feedback obtained will inform a draft NIH policy for data management and sharing - a chance for you to contribute towards making research data more open and accessible.
Survey - How do people find, make sense of and (re)use research data? Netherlands Institute for Permanent Access to Digital Research Resources
Kathleen Gregory, researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Permanent Access to Digital Research Resources, would appreciate your help in completing a survey she is doing as part of her PhD research. The 10-15 minute survey is part of a study funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) investigating how researchers locate and evaluate data they do not create themselves..
The aim of the project is to create open source search and recommendation solutions for research data. Through this survey, she hopes to learn more about data practices among scholars, and also to gather views of those involved in providing data services (such as computer scientists, data librarians and those involved in research support). The results of the project will inform the further design of DataSearch, a search engine dedicated to research data.
Your participation in this study will not only impact the design of search tools, but will also contribute to the growing understanding of how research data affects knowledge production and scholarly communication
This study is part of a collaborative research project between researchers at the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Elsevier. We have obtained ethical approval for this study from the Ethics Review Committee at Maastricht University.
RDAP webinar - Where the data repo meets the road: data service models in practice 8 November, 1-2:30pm EST
The RDAP Education and Resources team is excited to announce the first in a series of free webinars, each of which will allow members of the research data community to present their local approach to a particular topic. The first webinar will be "Where the Data Repo Meets the Road: Data Service Models in Practice." The webinar includes librarians from Carnegie Mellon University, Emory University, and the Data Curation Network in a panel presentation and discussion of evolving service models that extend local RDM expertise through complementary collaborative, hosted, and third-party services.
Call for proposals: Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference
Pittsburgh, PA
23-26 July 2019 Call closes 10 November
ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Proposals are invited until 10 November for next year's Pittsburgh conference. ACH and its partners believe in an “expansive definition of digital humanities in a broad array of subject areas, methods, and communities of practices”, and they will appreciate and welcome contributions that affirm social justice in the use of technology as it’s applied for humanistic inquiry.
Figshare fest is a chance to gather together institutional clients, advocates, and friends to talk about everything Figshare and open research.
The programme will consist of a mix of talks from Figshare customers as well as members of the research community. Speakers will join the event from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Salford, Middlesex University, Loughborough University, TULP interactive and Figshare.
Call for proposals - Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
15-17 May 2019 Call closes 16 November
RDAP Summit is a 2-day single-track, affordable event for research data support practitioners, with optional workshops available on a third day for a small additional fee. The program includes panels, lightning talks, a poster session, discussions, and optional workshops. This year’s theme is Building Communities.
The planning committee encourages presenters to propose topics that address how different communities are impacted by our systems, technology, values, and practices; who our communities are by and for; and to look at data services through a critical lens.
Jisc workshop - Support for research notebooks 15 Fetter Lane, London
19 November
Jisc would like your help to shape the support offered to researchers around managing research notebooks. Join them for an afternoon of discussion of various tools and requirements, including
What do you currently do with research notebooks?
What help do you currently get from your organisation?
Cambridge Digital Humanities workshop: using images at scale to understand environments and behaviours
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
21 November
Image big data are increasingly being used to understand the built and natural environment and to observe behaviours within it. Data sources include satellite and airborne imagery, 360 street views, and fixed video or time lapse traffic and CCTV cameras. While some of these sources are newer than others, what has been changing are the quality of the images, the geographical coverage, and the potential for assessing changes over time. At the same time improvements in machine learning have made it possible to turn images into quantitative data at scale.
Cambridge Digital Humanities presents this workshop to explore the challenges that researchers face when using images at scale to understand environments and behaviours.
UKSG webinar - Introduction to data quality: Europeana’s approach
22 November, 1.30pm GMT Duration: 45-60 minutes including Q&A
This free webinar will introduce how Europeana works with the data that it receives from its partners, Europeana's recommendations regarding data quality, and how this data gets enriched and published on the web as linked open data. The focus of the webinar is to give the audience a glimpse into data quality from the Europeana perspective.
Data Tree workshop: turn over a new leaf in research data management and end user engagement Mill Lane Lecture Room 7
22 November, 3:30-4.30pm
Data Tree is a new online course that has been developed by the Institute for Environmental Analytics. It is designed for PhD students and early career researchers with all you need to know for research data management, along with ways to engage and share data with business, policymakers, media and the wider public. We're excited to welcome the Data Tree team to Cambridge.
In this interactive workshop, course Director Vicky Lucas will introduce Data Tree. This will be an opportunity to find out about the leading experts who have contributed to the course, its interactive quizzes, videos and real-world examples, and to delve into some of the topics covered. Attendees of the hour-long session will leave fully prepared to use this excellent free resource to build on their data management skills, solve data handling problems and communicate the results of the research to non-academic audiences.
Conference - Memory makers: digital preservation skills and how to get them
Amsterdam Museum, Netherlands
29-30 November
The Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DHN) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are organising this international conference to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day.
Following an opening session from Judikje Kiers, Executive Director of Amsterdam Museum; Marens Engelhard, Executive Director of the Dutch National Archives and Head of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network Board; and William Kilbride, Executive Director of the DPC, conference attendees will hear over two days from speakers on the important digital preservation themes of teaching, training and collaborative learning.
Web and social media archiving for community and individual archives: a DPC briefing day
Coin Street Conference Centre, London
6 December
The DPC invites you to join a briefing on capturing and preserving web and social media content as part of individual or community archives.
The day will feature speakers who will share their experiences – from crawling the web presence of major figures to the curation of web-based art events that occur on multiple platforms at once.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear first-hand from practitioners who have begun to incorporate web and social media content in individual and event- or group- based archival collections.
Those in the room will also learn techniques for capturing and preserving their own web and social media content – from websites to Twitter feeds.
International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) - Collaborations and partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together University of Melbourne, Australia
4-7 February 2019
Registration is open for IDCC, a leading conference on digital curation and Research Data Management. The main theme of the conference will be collaborations and partnerships in the field of digital curation and preservation. How do they develop and evolve across the professional, disciplinary, institutional, regional, national, and international levels? And how are such collaborations supporting the advancement of digital curation and preservation practices?
Job - Research Data Management Consultant Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA Applications received by 15 November will be given first consideration.
Job - Research Data Facility Manager Office of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge Apply by 28 November
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The successful candidate will drive the development of world class research data services for the University. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Scholarly Communication and Research Services the successful candidate will ensure the University is strategically positioned to respond to the evolving research data needs of academics, students, funders and governments.
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