scholarly journals OPENPOLAR.NO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer Abu-Alam ◽  
Per Pippin Aspaas
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Arctic

In this episode, we discuss the new service Open Polar: The Global Open Access Portal for Research Data and Publications on the Arctic and Antarctic (openpolar.no). Presenting only freely available documents on the Arctic and Antarctic, Open Polar is a thematic search engine that can be a useful tool for both researchers and decision makers. Tamer Abu-Alam explains the reasons for filtering out all research documents that are not available in open access, thereby promoting open science. Of the 1,8 million records currently included in Open Polar, approx. 22,5 percent are research datasets, which makes the service unique. First published online August 30, 2021.

scholarly journals Teaching Open Science

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene N. Andreassen ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The University

In this episode, we are discussing how to teach open science to PhD students. Helene N. Andreassen, head of Library Teaching and Learning Support at the University Library of UiT the Arctic University of Norway shares her experiences with the integration of open science in a special, tailor-made course for PhD's that have just started their project. An interdisciplinary, discussion-based course, "Take Control of Your PhD Journey: From (P)reflection to Publishing" consists of a series of seminars on research data management, open access publishing and other subject matters pertaining to open science. First published online February 26, 2020.

scholarly journals Open Polar – a global open access portal to research on the polar regions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Longva ◽  
Tamer Abu Alam ◽  
Per Pippin Aspaas ◽  
Noortje Dijkstra ◽  
Lars Figenschou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Integrity ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Research Activities

Research activities and research output, in general, have increased, and keep increasing vastly, and so too is research on the polar regions including Svalbard in the Arctic. Major commercial publishers have built subscription-based services which present research literature for a fee. As Open Science and open access to literature and data is gaining momentum, there is a distinct need for powerful discovery tools that can harvest and present research literature and datasets in open access form - free of charge. Moreover, sharing of underlying data in open access form is becoming the new norm. So, to integrate research papers and datasets in the same search, helps speed up the discovery processes as well as fostering the transparency of research, and minimize duplication of fieldwork and experiments. Open Polar (https://openpolar.no/) is developed by UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and is a free to use discovery tool for open access publications and research data specifically targeting research output on the polar regions, across all subject areas, and irrespective of where the research originates. Through a carefully designed algorithm, Open Polar is extracting metadata (including URL to the landing page of the full text) from more than 4600 sources worldwide and making these accessible through a user-friendly search service - including an option to search via geolocations on a map, and with systematic search features. The algorithm used picks up relevant research located in the most remote content providers and sources. Thus, searching in Open Polar will result in records purely of relevance to the polar regions. In this contribution, we will present the many advantageous features of Open Polar, and show how Open Polar is supporting Open Science and research integrity-enhancing procedures, by enabling search and access to research data as well as research papers.

scholarly journals Towards Open Science for the Qualitative Researcher: From a Positivist to an Open Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110346
Author(s):  
Barbara Class ◽  
Miguel de Bruyne ◽  
Claire Wuillemin ◽  
Dimitri Donzé ◽  
Jean-Blaise Claivaz
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Open Research ◽  
Concrete Experience ◽  
Handling Practices

This reflection by a qualitative researcher stems from a concrete experience with data handling in a funded research project. The researcher followed Open Research Data guidelines and found optimal solutions to pseudonymise data, but this later evolved into a deep epistemological questioning on praxis. During the first phase of the project, a tailor-made software was developed with help from librarians and an IT professional to automate the pseudonymisation of the 150 data chunks generated by 16 students, 3 tutors and 3 decision makers. In the second phase of the project, this experience sparked questions about the meaning of such data handling and interpretations of Open Science, which led the researcher to suggest a framework for the professional development of qualitative researchers in their understanding of Open Science. The article raises awareness of normative frameworks in institutional data handling practices and calls for active contributions to defining qualitative research in an Open Science perspective, particularly taking as a reference the recent draft recommendation by UNESCO (2020)

scholarly journals Open-access policy and data-sharing practice in UK academia

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Access To Data

Data sharing can be defined as the release of research data that can be used by others. With the recent open-science movement, there has been a call for free access to data, tools and methods in academia. In recent years, subject-based and institutional repositories and data centres have emerged along with online publishing. Many scientific records, including published articles and data, have been made available via new platforms. In the United Kingdom, most major research funders had a data policy and require researchers to include a ‘data-sharing plan’ when applying for funding. However, there are a number of barriers to the full-scale adoption of data sharing. Those barriers are not only technical, but also psychological and social. A survey was conducted with over 1800 UK-based academics to explore the extent of support of data sharing and the characteristics and factors associated with data-sharing practice. It found that while most academics recognised the importance of sharing research data, most of them had never shared or reused research data. There were differences in the extent of data sharing between different gender, academic disciplines, age and seniority. It also found that the awareness of Research Council UK’s (RCUK) Open-Access (OA) policy, experience of Gold and Green OA publishing, attitudes towards the importance of data sharing and experience of using secondary data were associated with the practice of data sharing. A small group of researchers used social media such as Twitter, blogs and Facebook to promote the research data they had shared online. Our findings contribute to the knowledge and understanding of open science and offer recommendations to academic institutions, journals and funding agencies.

scholarly journals Case Open UEF – To do together

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisa Hartikainen ◽  
Tuula Rissanen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The University

At the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Library, the national Open Science and Research initiative (2014–2017, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland) triggered the planning and construction of open science related research support services. Planning of support services with themes of open access scholarly publishing, open research data and open study material began at full throttle at the UEF Library in November 2015. Information specialists were grouped into teams, which orientated to separate aspects of open science and shared their knowledge by training the whole library staff. Teamwork continued actively over the year 2016. Open science continuously brings new tasks for the Library and has already notably changed the job profiles of the library specialists.Advancing open science has been considered highly important not only at the library but also at the university level. UEF has offered resources e.g. by recruiting new information specialists and a data protection officer and internal auditor. UEF Library has a vital role in conducting open science but it is practiced in close collaboration with University Services, especially that of Development Services, General Administration and Legal Services and IT Services. Open Science team has landed the departments to share information and to discuss about open science practices at UEF. Nowadays these roadshows concerning UEF publishing and data policy, open access (OA) publishing as well as research data management and sharing are our focal operation.Work continues but the results can already be seen: In the OA ranking of research organisations in Finland (Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland), UEF has achieved level four in the five-level maturity model. Also, UEF researchers can order tailored training sessions about open research and support services from the diverse training menu offered by the Library. Updated Open UEF web pages are available for everyone and multi-channeled informing directed to UEF staff and students continues online. One concrete output from conducted open science and active campaigning about self-archiving is UEF institutional publication repository, UEF//eRepository, which was launched in February 2017. At the moment about 31% of UEF scientific publications are open access, but substantial increase is expected. The next big challenge in open research is data management and opening. UEF Library is starting to build a metadata portal for research data in order to conceive the data produced by UEF researchers and to help finding data for potential reuse.Open science will also be included in information retrieval studies of master's degree and doctoral students. To encourage students and teachers in OA publishing, during the international open access week, one student publishing master's thesis openly will be rewarded with a stipend by the Library. Department having the highest rate of OA master's theses will also be adorned with flowers.Open science is a matter of teamwork, committing and keeping up to date.

scholarly journals Österreichische Repositorien in OpenDOAR und re3data.org: Entwicklung und Status von Infrastrukturen für Green Open Access und Forschungsdaten

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Bruno Bauer ◽  
Andreas Ferus
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Data Repositories

Der vorliegende Beitrag beleuchtet die Entwicklung und den Status Quo von Repositorien in Österreich. Diese haben mit dem Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt e-Infrastructures Austria einen wichtigen Impuls bekommen. Während in den Jahren nach der „Berliner Erklärung über den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen“ (2003) vor allem die Bereiche Publikationen und Green Open Access bearbeitet wurden, rückten in jüngster Zeit insbesondere durch die European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) auch Forschungsdaten zunehmend in den Fokus des Interesses. Dieser Aufschwung spiegelt sich auch in der laufenden Steigerung der im Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) und im Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) erfassten österreichischen Repositorien wider. Mittels statistischer Auswertungen wurde erhoben, welche Dokumententypen in diesen Repositorien aufgenommen werden, welche Fachgebiete sie repräsentieren, welchen Umfang sie aufweisen, welche Software eingesetzt wird, ob bereits notwendige Schnittstellen (wie z.B. OAI) vorhanden sind und welche Policies für die jeweiligen Repositorien verfolgt werden.

What is Open Science?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stein Høydalsvik ◽  
Erik Lieungh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Support ◽  
University Library ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

What is Open Science and why do we need it? And can Open Access publishing deliver the same quality as traditional subscription-based journals do? This episode's guest is Stein Høydalsvik, senior adviser for publishing and research support at the University Library at UIT – The Arctic University in Tromsø, Norway. And in this episode of the podcast, he’ll give us an introduction to the world of open science. This episode was first published 26 September 2018.

scholarly journals On the Complexities of Federating Research Data Infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Atif Latif ◽  
Fidan Limani ◽  
Klaus Tochtermann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Metadata Mapping

Federated Research Data Infrastructures aim to provide seamless access to research data along with services to facilitate the researchers in performing their data management tasks. During our research on Open Science (OS), we have built cross-disciplinary federated infrastructures for different types of (open) digital resources: Open Data (OD), Open Educational Resources (OER), and open access documents. In each case, our approach targeted only the resource “metadata”. Based on this experience, we identified some challenges that we had to overcome again and again: lack of (i) harvesters, (ii) common metadata models and (iii) metadata mapping tools. In this paper, we report on the challenges we faced in the federated infrastructure projects we were involved with. We structure the report based on the three challenges listed above.

scholarly journals Open Arctic Research Index: Final report and recommendations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer S. Abu-Alam
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
End Users ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Scale Management

Access research data and research documents (e.g. publications) and make it more visible and findable through the internet is coming up as one of the major challenges for future development of the next generation of Digital Libraries. This challenge becomes more complicated when data producers (e.g. research institutes) are not aware by the needs of the scientific community for visibility and findability of their data or when the data producers lack the technology or the motivation to make their data available online.Although the Open Arctic Research Index pilot project focused only on the open-access research data and the open-access research documents published on Polar regions, the OpenARI found 60% of these open-access records are unfindable through searchable platforms outside the institutional webpage itself. This raises an awareness sign of the need of the scientific community to harvest the metadata of these open-access records in a homogenous, seamless database and making this database available to researchers, students and publics through one search platform. At present, neither Google Scholar nor any other search platform provide this service.Based on the fact that around 60% of the open-access polar records are unfindable through one search platform, we strongly suggest launching a full-scale management service at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). This new service will be built on existing experiences from High North Research Documents (i.e. an existing service at the UiT). OpenARI has concluded fifteen needs that are required for the full-scale management model. In addition to the main service (i.e. make open-access polar records more visible and findable through one search platform), we suggest to add three new services: 1) hosting of original data from the Polar regions; 2) creating a research platform; 3) creating an education platform. A new process including four stages of filtration is suggested in order to reduce the time and the overhead costs of using the UiT’s server. End-users will be able to perform search using a map. In addition to the classical way of presenting the results of a search, the end-users will be able to see the search results on a map and/or as a timeline.

scholarly journals Open Polar

Ravnetrykk ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer Abu-Alam
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Dublin Core ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Advanced Search ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Geo Database

Data from the Polar Regions are of critical importance to modern research and decision makers. Regardless of their disciplinary and institutional affiliations, researchers rely heavily on the comparison of existing data with new data sets to assess changes that are taking effect. However, in a recent survey of 113 major polar data providers, we found that an estimated 60% of the existing polar research data is unfindable through common search engines and can only be accessed through institutional webpages. This raises an awareness sign of the need of the scientific community to harvest different metadata related to the Polar Regions and collect it in a homogenous, seamless database and making this database available to researchers, students and publics through one search platform. This contribution describes the progress in an ongoing project, Open Polar, started in 2019 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The project aims to collect metadata about all the open-access research data, articles and other scholarly documents related to the Polar Regions in a homogenous and seamless database. During the first six months of the project, the beta version of the user-interface was established, with a search by map and an advanced search function. An extensive geo-database that includes thousands of polar locations and their geographic information was collected from different sources. The geo-database together with a list of keywords (i.e. on sources, indigenous peoples, languages and other polar-related keywords) will be used in the filtration process. A Reference Board was formed, and the first board meeting took place in April 2020. The geographic definition of “Polar Regions” was defined in order to include most of the current geographic definitions of “Arctic”. The project is still facing some challenges that include for example integration with non-standard data sources who do not use Dublin Core Metadata schema, or are not harvestable through the Open Access Initiative’s standard protocol for harvesting (OAI-PMH).

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