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The Future is Wide Open

Open

Research, Preprints, Preregistration

Mary Donaldson and Matt Mahon, Research Information Management team

Open research practices

Creating a

data management

plan

Pre-registering

a study methodology

Sharing

methods and protocols

Sharing new research as

pre-print publicationsMaking published work open accessSharing code, data or software used in your research

Including data availability statements in outputsSupporting open peer reviewSharing open educational resourcesSharing non traditional outputs (>> impact)Adding author contribution statements

Early and wide sharing of research at all stages of its life cycle

Improved

visibility

of research and researcher

Greater

transparency

and reliability

Enhanced opportunities for

collaboration

More

efficient use of fundsEarlier opportunity to stake a claim on ideasImproved public trust in research(Compliance with funder policy and Concordat on Open Research Data)

Benefits of Open Research

Focus: Preprints

A preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper before it is published in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal.

Get your work out there and seen by your peers

Get a permanent home with a citable DOI

Establish priority

Beat the peer review queue

Invite feedback from the academic community.

https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2019/05/22/are-preprints-paving-the-way-to-science-in-real-time/

If there is no suitable preprint server for your paper, we may be able to deposit it for you in our Enlighten repository. Contact us at research-openaccess@glasgow.ac.uk

Funder and REF policies on Preprints

Wellcome Trust

encourage sharing of post preprints under a CC-BY

licence

and require posting of preprints where there is a significant health benefit (

eg

COVID) 

 UKRI do not currently mandate any action with Preprints.Preprints can be cited in MRC funding applications if they have a DOI or persistent identifier.New UKRI open access policy due to be announced summer 2021. We will advise authors if any requirements come arise for Preprints.REF: Articles and conference proceedings must be deposited in an appropriate repository within three months of the date of acceptance.Clause 238: Institutions may submit pre-prints as eligible outputs to REF 2021 if the article has been accepted for publication. Upon acceptance send the accepted version to research-openaccess@glasgow.ac.uk. If you have deposited a Preprint that is the same as the accepted version, let us know

so we can record the REF compliant deposit accurately.  

Publisher policies on preprints

Sherpa Romeo can be used to identify journal policies around preprints

Check the journal publisher allows you to deposit a Preprint in a repository before you do so.

Some do not allow preprint posting and some do only under certain conditions. 

Try Sherpa Romeo for summaries and links to journal policy:

https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Example:

Preprint policy for

AnaesthesiaWe can check for you. Email researchopenaccess@glasgow.ac.uk. 

Focus: Preregistration

Hypothesis generating

Exploratory research

Initial findings which need to be replicated and confirmed

Data-dependent

Hypothesis testing

Confirmatory research

Results can be held to the highest standards

Data-independent

VS

Preregistration of research studies separates hypothesis generating work from hypothesis-testing work.It is important that the same data is not used to both generate a hypothesis and test the same hypothesis.This issue can be addressed through planning.https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereghttps://edshare.gla.ac.uk/1257/ 

Allows researchers to stake a claim to their ideas earlier in the research cycle. 

Improves research by increasing the credibility of results. 

Reduces 

apophenia

(seeing patterns in random data), 

HARKing

 (

hypothesising

 after the results are known) and

p-hacking (playing with data analysis until results become statistically significant).Provide a long-term record of a researcher’s workflow. Saves time over the full research lifecycle as methods and analysis have already been tested and decided on. Protects researchers from ‘posthoc’ critique from reviewers and editors. 

Benefits

Training and support for Open Access and

Research Data Management

Repositories for publications, data, Education resources and more

Help checking if publishers allow you to share pre-prints

Identifiers (ORCID and SCOPUS IDs)

CRediT

(contributor roles taxonomy)

Bibliometrics support / DORA

Supporting funder policies that

mandate Open ResearchContact us at research-datamanagement@glasgow.ac.ukAvailable support

CRediTs

Writing – original draft:

Matt Mahon

Mary Donaldson

Paul Cannon

Valerie McCutcheon

Tanita Casci

Writing – review and editing:

Matt Mahon

Mary Donaldson