open science

Open Science: Past, Present and Future

Andrea Miller-NesbittLife Sciences Libraryandrea.miller-nesbitt@mcgill.ca

• What is Open Science?

• How did we get here?

• How is Open Science currently being practiced?

• How can we participate as librarians?

• What is in store for the future?

Outline

“Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process”-Michael Nielson

Open Science

http://www.openscience.org/blog/?p=454

• Thousands of years ago• Empirical science – describing natural phenomena

• Last few hundred years• Theoretical science – using models and generalizations to explain

phenomena

• Last few decades• Computational science – using digital technology to simulate

phenomena

The Past: How did we get here?

• Data intensive scientific discovery• Unifying theory, experiment and simulation

• Data exploration

The Fourth Paradigm

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/

Growth of GenBank (1982-2008)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genbankstats-2008/

HGP and the Bermuda Agreement

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1) Primary genomic sequences should be in the public domain

2) Primary genomic sequence should be rapidly released

The Present: Open Science at Work

http://www.galaxyzoo.org/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/http://fold.it/portal/http://www.mygrid.org.uk/http://polymathprojects.org/http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/

• Legislation and policy• International, federal, provincial, institutional

• Intellectual property rights issues

• Infrastructure • Data deluge

• Economic sustainability

• Interoperability

• Training and support• Standardized training for researchers and information professionals

• Scientific culture• Publish or perish

• Fear of misinterpretation

Current Challenges

http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/about/backgrounder.html

Solutions

http://datacite.org/http://total-impact.org/http://www.nih.gov/http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/http://www.researchgate.net/http://www.oecd.org

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research• Must deposit certain data types upon publication

• Must keep all data for a minimum of five years

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council• Strategic Network Grants Guidelines

• Encourages researchers to share data within a reasonable period of time

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council• SSHRC Research Data Archiving Policy

• Must deposit data within two years within two years of project completion

Canadian Context

plan

collect

describe

preserve

analyze

integrate

Role of the librarian

Data lifecycle

data management

Identify and apply appropriate metadata

Identify appropriate repository

Help users access data

• Planning and data management

• Metadata and archiving support

• Finding and using relevant infrastructure

• Building and managing institutional policies and repositories

• Support and training

Role of the librarian

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The Future…

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Allard, S. (2012). DataONE: Facilitation eScience through collaboration. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 1(1), 4-17.

Carlson, J., Fosmire, M., Miller, C. C., & Nelson, M. S. (2011). Determining data information literacy needs. Libraries and the academy, 11(2), 629-657.

Hey, A. J. G., Tansley, S., & Tolle, K. M. (Eds.). (2009). The fourth paradigm : data-intensive scientific discovery. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Research.

Martin, E., Leger-Hornby, T., & Kafel, D. (2012). Frameworks for data management curriculum: Course plans for data management instruction to undergraduate and graduate students in science, health sciences and engineering programs. Retrieved from http://library.umassmed.edu/data_management_frameworks.pdf

National Research Council of Canada. (2012, January 30, 2012). Research Data Strategy Retrieved April 16, 2012, from http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/index.html

Nielsen, M. A. (2012). Reinventing discovery : the new era of networked science. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Ouellette, F. (2011). Data sharing: bioinformatics of cancer genomics. The 2011 Canadian Research Data Summit. Power Point Presentation. Retrieved from http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/events/data_summit_2011/presentations.html

Shearer, K. (2011). Comprehensive brief on open access to publications and research data for the federal granting agencies. Retrieved from http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=en&n=2360F10C-1

Soehner, C., Steeves, C., & Ward, J. (2010). E-Science and data support services: A study of ARL member institutions. Report. Retrieved from www.arl.org/bm~doc/escience-report.pdf

Selected Sources

Andrea Miller-Nesbitt

andrea.miller-nesbitt@mcgill.ca

(514) 398-1663

• What are the implications of data-intensive science on library collections?

• Will we see large groups of non-scientists co-authoring papers?

Questions?

Resource Content Link

eSciences portal for New England librarians

Provides useful links to overviews of eScience, data management support, science basics for non-scientists, etc.

http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/index 

Open Science list serve Relatively low-volume list for the open science community

http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-science

Journal of eScience librarianship

Open access, peer-reviewed journal which began in 2012

http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/ 

Data information literacy

Information about a data information literacy program being developed by a number of academic libraries in the U.S.A.

http://wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/ste/home

The Fourth Paradigm blog

A continuation of the published book The Fourth Paradigm

http://blogs.nature.com/fourthparadigm/ 

Inter-university consortium for political and social research

Provides training in data access, curation and analysis for social science research community

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp 

ARL eScience survey resource page

Various links for institutions planning to support eScience

http://www.arl.org/rtl/eresearch/escien/esciensurvey/surveyresearch.shtml

CARL Data management subcommittee

Links to reports that provide an overview of data management at CARL member libraries

http://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/data-management-sub-committee.html

Suggested Resources for Librarians