LibGuides: Scholarly Communication in High Energy Physics (HEP): Open Access

Open Data

Open Data 101
University of Bath Post-doc Ross Mounce gives a brief intro to Open Data
The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
SPARC Open Data Fact Sheet
Principles for Open Bibliographic Data
The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto
On May 22, 2012 at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. This declaration bridges the converging interests of these stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries.
Open Data Commons
A set of legal ‘tools’ to help you provide and use open data.
ChemSpider
total-Impact
A website that makes it quick and easy to view the impact of a wide range of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements of research output — citations to papers — to embrace a much broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly output types. The system aggregates impact data from many sources and displays it in a single report, which is given a permaurl for dissemination and can be updated any time.
Databib
A tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data.
Implementing an Open Data Policy: A Primer for Research Funders
Developed by SPARC
Obama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government Efficiency and Fuel Economic Growth | The White House
White House: Open Data Poicy (PDF)
OpenGLAM
An initiative that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Open Data Handbook
This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.
Patients Like Me
Patients voluntarily share medical data.

Why is Open Access Important?

We engage and invest in research in order to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, encourage innovation, enrich education, and stimulate the economy — to improve the public good.

Communication of the results of research is an essential component of the research process; research can only advance by sharing the results, and the value of an investment in research is only maximized through wide use of its results.

Yet, too often, because of cost barriers or use restrictions, research results are not available to the full community of potential users. The Internet gives us the opportunity to bring this crucial information to a worldwide audience at virtually no marginal cost, and allows us to use it in new, innovative ways. This has resulted in a call for a new framework to allow research results to be more easily accessed and used — the call for Open Access.

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Open Access

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.

Open Science

Science Commons
TedxTalks (video)
Paweł Szczęsny talks about the ideas behind open collaboration in Science in this 15 minute video.
Open Notebook Science
The aim of Open Notebook Science is to make the full record of scientific research available.
Open WetWare
Targeting open science in biology & biological engineering.

Four Mechanisms for Open Access

SPARC considers the terms outlined by the Creative Commons Attribution-Only license (CC-BY) to be the standard terms for Open Access:

Open Access publishing
Digital repositories
Effectively managed author rights
Local, national and international Open Access policies