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Open Access is the New Black (but does it look good on everyone?)

Open Access is the New Black (but does it look good on everyone?). Dr Felicity Flack Population Health Research Network Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Who Started the Fashion for Openness?. United Nations Universal declaration of Human Rights “Article 27.

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Open Access is the New Black (but does it look good on everyone?)

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  1. Open Access is the New Black(but does it look good on everyone?) Dr Felicity Flack Population Health Research Network Telethon Institute for Child Health Research

  2. Who Started the Fashion for Openness? United Nations Universal declaration of Human Rights “Article 27. (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.”

  3. Who Started the Fashion for Openness • Many other declarations, policies and guidelines have followed including: • 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities • 2009 Whitehouse Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government • 2010 David Cameron’s open letter on Transparency and Government • 2012 All European Academies Open Science for the 21st Century. A declaration of all European Academies.

  4. Openness in Research Data • Areas where “openness” is being encouraged include: • Making data easier for researchers to find • Making administrative (government data) easier for researchers to access • Making data available for re-use • Making scientific publications available to all

  5. Making data easier for researchers to find • Benefits • Enable the demonstration of research excellence • Allow researchers to build upon existing data, instead of recreating it • Foster innovation • Provide the ability to solve big problems across discipline boundaries ANDS website http://www.ands.org.au/betterdata/index.html

  6. Making administrative data easier for researchers to access • Benefits • Enables research on whole populations • Reduction of duplicated effort • Less expensive than prospective cohort studies

  7. Australian Government Position “Information held by Australian Government agencies is a valuable national resource. If there is no legal need to protect the information it should be open to public access. Information publication enhances public access. Agencies should use information technology to disseminate public sector information, applying a presumption of openness and adopting a proactive publication stance.” “Principles on open public sector information” . Australian Government Office of the Information Commissioner.

  8. Making data available for re-use • Benefits • Verification of research claims • New discoveries from existing data • Integration of sets of data for new analysis • Re-analysis of expensive, rare or unrepeatable investigations • Reduction of duplicated effort ANDS website http://www.ands.org.au/betterdata/index.html

  9. Making scientific publications available to all • Most research is government funded so taxpayers should have access to the results • Benefits • Wider dissemination of research findings • Cross-disciplinary fertilization • Increased citation counts

  10. NHMRC Policy The NHMRC revised policy on dissemination of research findings states “NHMRC therefore requires that any publications arising from an NHMRC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve month period from the date of publication.”

  11. Limitations of Openness • There are however limitations on how open we can and/or should be. • Use of Personal and/or Confidential information • Legislative or contractual restrictions on use and disclosure • Intellectual property issues • Costs of providing open access to data

  12. Case Study What are the care pathways that lead to caesarean section? Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council

  13. How Can Research Managers Help Researchers Look Good in the New Black? • Develop a good understanding of the legal and ethical requirements for openness • Understand the IT and information management requirements for openness • Understand the costs of openness • Understand who should be paying for openness

  14. ARMS Position • Should openness be mandated or just recommended and encouraged? • Are there changes required to legislation, regulation or guidelines to achieve the desired position on openness?

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