Committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource

1. DataCite 2011 PLoS Perspectives on Data Publishing: Open Access, Open Data Jennifer Lin, Product Manager, PLoS Committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource

2. Open Access = Share research freely and openly online But do scientific ‘users’ of our papers just want to read them? • Everyone can read, store and index your paper • Easy to find – all in PubMed Central

3. Open Data is essential to Open Access • Research papers do not make sense without supporting statements, i.e., data. • Scientific readers want more than just to read a paper: • They want to replicate the work themselves, so as to build on it • They want to re-use the data for other purposes (e.g. meta-analysis) • They want to mine the data in various ways and mash-up • The people who collect and generate data want attribution so they get the credit for all their hard work

4. PLoS champions Open Data We acknowledge the need for a permanent, stable, curatedonline repository for all types of data used in published papers. • Preserve data in a form that is citable, openly accessible, searchable, and reusable. • Link data to the publicationin which they originally appeared. • Ensure that data are maintained for future use. • Gene and genome sequences: GenBank • Clinical trials: clinicaltrials.gov • Specialised fieldsFlyBase (Drosophila) • Dryad, open access database for ‘homeless’ data associated with publications

5. Sharing data directly benefits authors But authors do not optimally share now

6. PLoS’s efforts with Open Data • Change the behaviors of researchers to share openly with its publication policies – biggest challenge • Partner with funders, institutions and others who have a stake in this area (e.g., Dryad, ORCID, etc.) • Incorporate tools to make it easier to capture the data as researchers do the work

7. Open Data is valuable datawhen made visible and freely available to the research community Example: Article-level Metrics (ALM) • Provides post-publication view of research impact from digital locations inclusive of and beyond conventional publication channels: • article usage, community input (within PLoS) • citations in scholarly and non-scholarly literature, • media and blog coverage • social/behavioral mining • Serves as a tool to discover and interpret content in the problem of filtering, aggregation, and evaluation of research • Counters the lack of meaning in the journal Impact Factor and provides an alternative metric for research evaluation

8. Value of ALM Research & Discovery Self-Metrics

9. New ALM Uses from the Community Jason Priem Mike Chelen

10. Open ALM Data: no known limit to its value Via PLoS’s open API, the uses of ALM data are unbounded. • Current implementation* includes: • Interactive and dynamic filtering tools to select for variables and constraints specific to researcher’s needs • Novel data analytics to compare research to other papers in same field • Navigation tools to conduct highly targeted, efficient searches based on particular impact indicators • Data visualization, which engages innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms within an intuitive, visual language system * Existing or currently in development • Future ideas? • Mendeley/Binary Battle currently underway • ∞

11. Questions or Comments?jlin@plos.org

13. ALM Data Collation