By researchers for researchers Scholarly communication Open Science
By researchers, for researchers Scholarly communication & Open Science at academic conferences - a collection of ideas from #Force 2016
Contents ● What’s already happening? ● What we can do? ● Who can help? ● What do we need? ● Workshop results
Collective Google Doc with information on Scholcomm / Open Science activities at academic conferences: bit. ly/force 11 R 4 R hashtag: #Force 11 R 4 R
Possible approaches and specific ideas ● Organize a session/talk in the main programme ○ Focus it on reproducibility, professional development and grants ○ “Pure open” proposals probably won’t work ○ Could you host a satellite event to the meeting ● Activist / guerilla approach ○ Give out Why. Open. Research. org cards and put them on seats ○ Wear your Open Science t-shirts and talk to people! ○ Organize an informal open meetup ● Work with conference organizers on open dissemination ○ Suggest Figshare / Open Science Framework / F 1000 Posters / Science. Open for hosting posters ○ Put slides on OSF / Figshare
Possible approaches and points of contact Talk to these people if you need help : ) ● Organize a session/talk in the main programme ○ Erin at @emckiernan 13 / emck 31[@]gmail. com) ● Activist / guerilla approach ○ Joe at @mcarthur_joe / Joe[@]sparcopen. org) ● Work with conference organizers on open dissemination ○ Jeroen & Bianca at (@jeroenbosman j. bosman[@]uu. nl /@Ms. Phelps b. m. r. kramer[@] uu. nl)
What do we need to make this happen? ● Outreach to conference organizers & attendees ○ Database of contacts (who do you know) ○ Talking points ○ Need for marketing -> concrete solutions ○ Identify needs of researchers ● Show return on investment (ROI) ○ for conference organizers ○ for funders ○ for institutional administrators
What do we need to make this happen? ● Bottom-up approach: stimulate researchers to include/embed scholarly communication in their talks ● For librarians: funding/legitimacy to attend conferences (or alternatively: support researchers who are attending) ● Concrete visual materials (& swag) ● Time / Money / Enthusiasm
What do we need to make this happen? Inspire by doing! #justdoit
Workshop results
Ideas In small groups, brainstorm one or more ideas. Describe your idea(s) on the cards provided, including: - Target group - Topic - Format How does it fit within the meeting / conference ? Why would they come?
Open Data, Open Mic 1. Get conf organizers to provide space in the exhibit space of any disciplinary academic conference (pref near coffee). Promote the heck out of it. 2. Get 2 -3 big names from discipline to share (in 2 -3 mins) open data success story in that space during breaks / lunches. Have presenters share their story for last 3 mins of keynote. Promote the heck out of it. 3. Open the mic for others to share their stories. 4. Create app for others elsewhere to share their stories. Promote the heck out of it. 5. Develop website for these recorded stories that also
Have your cake and eat it, too 1. Ask conference attendees about their research, look up altmetrics data for their research output. Create ORCIDs on the spot. 2. Add regional day to local research conferences 3. Partner campus researchers with librarians for the conferences they go to 4. Be present, make your identity known
Build case studies to share 1. Survey researchers few months prior to conf to find out what will engage them. Tailor questions to disicpline. 2. Workshop on how to monitor and use altmetrics related to research papers (format: case studies / ‘how to’) 3. Peer reviews & journal quality as related to communicating research (format: live peer review session w/ Q&A) 4. Motivate researchers to deposit in OA repository: librarians attend conf/meeetings and encourage students to submit to repositories right there in person. Show that
Used data swap After you’ve worked with a dataset for an extended period of time, you’re sometimes no longer able to see the research possibilities available in the dataset. So, why not enable researchers to share their “used” datasets so that others can use/reuse it in new ways unanticipated by the original researchers. This extends the value of the data for both the original researchers and the original funders, and provides new researchers with clean data to work with.
#thisideamustdie Use this tag line to target myths about open scholarship across disciplines and domains. For example: “Publishing in open-access journals won’t advance my career. ” Use this rhetorical frame to organize conference panels about open scholarship/communication. Also: seed conference with blank cards to fill, aggregate on website.
Open Peer Review for Posters This proposal outlines a process that could be adopted at professional continuing education events. Conference organizers will provide an open lifecycle for poster abstract submissions to facilitate open peer review and sharing of ideas. Calls for abstracts will direct authors to submit items with relevant sharing licenses in place. Authenticated community users will then provide peer review of the abstract. Final accepted posters will be posted online and indexed on the conference site. Abstract authors may be approached by publishers (conference sponsors!) for later revision and submission. This will be a way to harness new ideas, create a more fluid conversation around conference programming, and involve publisher partners in the programming.
Ideas “Do that, not this!” (inspired by “Eat this, not that!”) - A conference for researchers who’ve produced negative results and are willing to share how and why their research question/approach/methodology didn’t turn out as planned - Would allow researchers and funders to realize the value of “failure” in the form of case studies and/or cautionary tales - Would also prevent others from repeating mistakes (or funding projects destined to fail)
Slide deck bit. ly/force 11 R 4 Rslides
This slidedeck was created at a preconference workshop at Force 2016, Portland US, April 2016 Participants: Jeroen Bosman @jeroenbosman Bianca Kramer @Ms. Phelps Joe Mc. Arthur @Mcarthur_Joe Erin Mc. Kiernan @emckiernan 13 Anna Newman @anewlibrarian Raja Cholan Charlie Rapple @charlierapple Maria Bonn @msbonn Shelly Miller @Shelly. M_7 Constantia Constantinou Beau Case @Beau_Case Dan Valen @dnvln Sheila Green Lou Woodley @Lou. Woodley Joshua Finnell @Joshua. Finnell Chealsye Bowley @chealsye Contact any of us! Chris Leonard @hoo. Har Catriona Mac. Callum @catmac. OA Stephanie Wright @shefw Jill Rodgers @Lil. Hobo. Clown Jagadish Aryal @jcaryal Eva Montenegro Cathy Pepper Sean Lind
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