Journal:Open data in scientific communication
| Full article title | Open data in scientific communication |
|---|---|
| Journal | Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A – Forestry |
| Author(s) | Grygoruk, Dorota |
| Author affiliation(s) | Forest Research Institute |
| Primary contact | Email: farfald at ibles dot waw dot pl |
| Year published | 2018 |
| Volume and issue | 60(3) |
| Page(s) | 192–98 |
| DOI | 10.2478/ffp-2018-0019 |
| ISSN | 2199-5907 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
| Website | https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ffp/60/3/article-p192.xml |
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Abstract
The development of information technology makes it possible to collect and analyze a growing number of data resources. The results of research, regardless of the discipline, constitute one of the main sources of data. Currently, research results are increasingly being published in the open access model. The open access concept has been accepted and recommended worldwide by many institutions financing and implementing research. Initially, the idea of openness concerned only the results of research and scientific publications; at present, more attention is paid to the problem of sharing scientific data, including raw data. Proceedings towards open data are intricate, as data specificity requires the development of an appropriate legal, technical and organizational model, followed by the implementation of data management policies at both the institutional and national levels.
The aim of this publication is to present the development of the open data concept in the context of open-access ideas and problems related to defining data in the process of data sharing and data management.
Keywords: open access, open data, research data, data management
Introduction
Modern information technology allows for the collection and analysis of a growing number of data resources. At the beginning of our century, it was estimated that new stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002.[1] Scientific studies are one of the main sources of data, and their results are increasingly available in the form of scientific publications in the open access model. The beginning of open access (OA) dates back to the 1960s, when the first centers of scientific information were established in the United States of America. Publishing in prestigious scientific journals has become the guarantee of the professional advancement of authors and promotion of research centers.[2] In the opinion of Nielsen[3], the growth of the scientific journal system has created a body of shared knowledge and a collective long-term memory that is the basis for progress in science. New possibilities of dissemination of research findings emerged along with the development of the internet and digital technology. The first journals exclusively published on the internet were launched in the late 1980s.[2] The first open scientific repository in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics and computer science was established in 1991, and as of the end of August 2018 it contains 1,433,214 documents.[4] Currently, no library in the world subscribes to all printed scientific journals, as their prices and the number of studies published in them grow faster than the libraries’ budgets. The essence of open access is both access to research results without fee and the possibility of their re-use for scientific purposes—by reading, saving to a computer disk, copying, printing, looking up, and linking, as well as correct quoting through verifying the work authorship. The OA model ensures the process of publication reviewing, does not violate copyrights and adheres to anti-plagiarism regulations.[5]
The goals of open access have been defined in three declarations, that is, the Budapest Open Access Initiative[6], the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing[7] and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). According to the Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP), open access policies were adopted in a total of 83 non-research funders, 56 funding research organizations, 716 university and research institutions, 11 multiple research collectives and 75 sub-units of research organizations (as of March 2018).[8] From Poland, six scientific units have been entered in the register: the Adam Mickiewicz University; Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences; the Interdisciplinary Centre of Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw; the Medical University of Lodz; the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz and the Polish Academy of Science Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics.[9]
References
- ↑ Lyman, P.; Varian, H.R. (2003). "How Much Information? 2003". University of California at Berkeley. http://groups.ischool.berkeley.edu/archive/how-much-info-2003/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hofmokl, J.; Tarkowski, A.; Bednarek-Michalska, B. et al. (2009) (PDF). Przewodnik po otwartej nauce. Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Modelowania. pp. 92. ISBN 9788391715048. https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/65/przewodnik-po-otwartej-nauce.pdf.
- ↑ Nielsen, M. (17 July 2008). "The Future of Science". MichaelNielsen.org. http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-future-of-science-2/.
- ↑ "arXiv.org". Cornell University Library. August 2018. https://arxiv.org/.
- ↑ Suber, P. (2014) (PDF). Otwarty dostęp. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. pp. 198. ISBN 9788323515777. https://www.ifj.edu.pl/library/open-access/materials/Suber.pdf.
- ↑ Chan, L.; Cuplinskas, D.; Eisen, M. et al. (14 February 2002). "Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative". Budapest Open Access Initiative. https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read.
- ↑ Brown, P.O.; Lutzker, A.P.; Cabell, D. et al. (20 June 2003). "Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing". The SPARC Open Access Newsletter. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm.
- ↑ "Welcome to ROARMAP". ROARMAP. University of Southampton. March 2018. http://roarmap.eprints.org/.
- ↑ "Browse by Country - Poland". ROARMAP. University of Southampton. March 2018. http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/country/616.html.
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