Open Access: a practical perspective

Egon Willighagen

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/@egonwillighagenORCID:0000-0001-7542-0286

Grants for IndividualsUM, 2016-10-19

Copyright © 2016 E. Willighagen, CC-BY 4.0 Int.

"Knowledge dissemination: a topic you know so little about, you think the best kind of dissemination is a Nature journal ReadCube."

John Oliver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx8siugG440

Knowledge DisseminationKnowledge Dissemination

Why do you disseminate knowledge?● Science

– Progress, scientific discussion, sharing new ideas, sharing new knowledge

– Research collaborations– Cure people

● Valorisation– Public good– To the market

Basic needs of scholarly research

● Right to use the knowledge● Right to correct and/or improve the

knowledge● Right to share your new results

Basic needs of scholarly research

● Right to use the knowledge● Right to correct and/or improve the

knowledge● Right to share your new results

Text Mining: extraction of facts from literature

Why does Closed Access even exist?

Solution: publish gold Open Access

1. Don't give away your copyright

2. Use a gold Open Access license

Green Open Access does not provide all needed rights!

Get more cited

doi:10.7554/eLife.16800.002

Get more read

doi:10.1126/science.352.6285.508

Get more read

doi:10.1126/science.352.6285.508

Get more read

Bianca Kramer,

Sci-Hub: access or convenience? A Utrecht case study (part 1)

20 juni 2016

Follow the dissemination

● Know how people use your knowledge● Find your audience and potential new

collaborators● See valorisation in action!

See Altmetric.com

Have an impact story

See Impactstory.org

How people are using this for tenure and promotion...

https://www.altmetric.com/blog/how-to-use-altmetrics-to-showcase-engagement-efforts-for-promotion-and-tenure/

“My research was cited in a World Bank report on Malaria”

ORCID identifier

https://orcid.org/blog/2016/06/24/auto-update-has-arrived-orcid-records-move-next-level

Peer review: not as old as you think

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/peer-review-not-old-you-might-think

Back to knowledge dissemination

● Dissemination via any channel– Conference contributions (oral, poster)– Databases (and data)– Preprint Servers– Websites

Communication is noisy ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw

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