[open-science] Open Science for the 21st century

[Diane Cabell]

My wish list, fwiw:

1) ALLEA should encourage its members to adopt re-use permissions that are compatible with the most liberal of other permission regimes.  Institutions that customize their policies on sharing data (such as by adding a non-commercial use restriction or requiring that share-alike conditions be adopted) can impede the maximum re-use of such work.  Time spent figuring out permissions is costly to the individual researcher and even more so to the institutions that have to clear rights for larger numbers of personnel.   Keep it simple; keep it interoperable.

2) Be aware of other types of legislation that can affect the freedom to share scientific research (e.g., the Communications Bills, SOPAs and PIPAs that add ever-more intrusive layers of protection for  owners of intellectual property).  These efforts are generally being proposed by industries that rely heavily on copyright royalties and therefore want piracy eliminated.  They define "piracy" as broadly as possible.  Researchers, on the other hand, rarely collect royalties on their journal articles and would much rather their works were distributed as widely as possible.  SOPA-type legislation makes  it even harder for those who want to re-use scientific data to legally do so. 

3)  Substitute the sui generis database protection for legislation that places raw numerical and text data (tricky as it is to define) in the public domain

Diane Cabell
Oxford eResearch Centre
Creative Commons
iCommons Ltd




On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:17 PM, Daniel Mietchen wrote:

> I'm scheduled for a conference call on Wednesday with the organizers
> of the Rome event (which I missed due to #OAPoland). Suggestions on
> what to bring up are most welcome.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All
>>> 
>>> If you haven't already seen this declaration from ALLEA (ALL European
>>> Academies: The European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and
>>> Humanities) on Open Science for the 21st century, it is very positive and
>>> worth a quick read (it's only 3 pages)
>>> 
>>> http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/allea-declaration-1.pdf
>>> 
>>> It states:
>>> The Academies commit themselves to debate and promote practical
>>> applications of open science principles within their national arenas of
>>> activity, and to jointly advocate their adoption also in the international
>>> domain.
>>> 
>>> Specifically:
>>> - The European Commission proposes that under “Horizon 2020”, the
>>> successor to FP7, all research results are to be made available
>>> and accessible for everyone.
>>> 
>>> They also recommend:
>>> - Publications should be made openly available online, as soon and as
>>> freely as possible, as should also educational resources and software
>>> resulting from publicly funded research.
>>> - Scientists and their organisations should apply open sharing principles
>>> to the data that underpins such publications
>>> - Consequently, research proposals requesting public funds should include
>>> measures aimed at advancing open science and apply the above principles.
>>> - Academic assessment and reward systems should see merit in participation
>>> in the culture of sharing, in enabling online collaboration and reproducible
>>> e-science.
>>> 
>>> We look forward to seeing strong action on the points raised in the
>>> document.
>>> 
>> 
>> This was the meeting I was invited to in Rome and where I met Neelie Kroes
>> (and put in a plug for OKFN, which seems to have been unnecessary).
>> Basically she and others are moving the digital agenda ahead and it will
>> involve, in part, bottom up organisations like OKFN. There is still a lot of
>> confusion about green/gold/openAccess and I think we have to keep plugging
>> simple messages.
>> 
>> P.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Jenny
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Peter Murray-Rust
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>> University of Cambridge
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