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The Hero’s JourneyResearch Endeavour in the connected digital ecosystem

Stephen

Cawley

Ben McLeishSlide2

The fourth paradigm

The research & career cycles

Improving outcomes with digital utility at each research stage

AgendaSlide3

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Backdrop: Increasing international collaboration

Source: ‘The Fourth Age of Research’ by Jonathan Adams, Nature 497, 557-

560

(2013)

Source: ‘The Fourth Age of Research’ by Jonathan Adams, Nature 497, 557-

560

(2013)

Source: ‘The Fourth Age of Research’ by Jonathan Adams, Nature 497, 557-560 (2013)Slide4

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Scientific paradigms 500BC-2010AD

Empirical: describe natural phenomena

Theoretical: use equations and

generalizations

Computational: simulate complex phenomena

E-science

: data capture, processing and analysis

A vision for data-intensive scienceSlide5

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But research faces some huge challengesSlide6

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The research & career cyclesSlide7

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Journals play a key role in research

Researchers have reached their limit in how many articles they can consume

A

35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to be

leveling

off.

In

2012, on average, 22 scholarly articles per month (or 264 per year). No increase since 2005

Carol Tenopir Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville“People have probably hit the limit of the time they have available to read articles,”Readcube helps determine which articles are worth reading with recommendations based on what is contained in your library:200 pages are read every second in ReadCube

2.5 million readers each month use ReadCube technology to read, discover and manage their literature

As of June 2015, over 8 million researchers are using ReadCube to read, discover, manage their literatureSlide8

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Helping researchers in the lab

Safety in biolabs

under increased scrutiny from media & government

Use

of

BioRaft at Dartmouth College

Goals:To improve safety and compliance, consolidate databases, and fulfill the manpower needs of Environmental Health & Safety in the face of increased regulation and enforcement. Approach:

Through the Bioraft platform, they register laboratory members and hazards, managed training requirements, and deliver training more effectively than ever before, allowing them to accommodate growth in their safety and compliance programs without expanding their EHS staff.Results:Since implementing the BioRAFT solution, Dartmouth College has been able to improve safety compliance in their institution and gather data on areas for improvement.

Maureen O'Leary, PhD, MBA, CBSP

Director

, Environmental Health & Safety at Dartmouth CollegeSlide9

Helping researchers in the

lab

Research connectedness is needed for innovation

Use

of

Labguru at Forrest Innovation

Goals:

Implement an agile experimental management framework that is accessible across multiple research sites

Approach:From the inception of the company, Labguru has been used to manage experiments across labs, growth rooms and greenhouses in Israel, Brazil and the United States. Results:Labguru helps the Citrus Greening R&D team at Forrest keep track of, and to co-ordinate all of their experimental activity and outcomesIn fact, the Citrus Greening research team are completely reliant on the tool for experiment management and reporting, with average user log-ins of over 50 times per day

As an essential knowledge management tool, Labguru halves the time that Forrest researchers have to spend on certain, awkward experimental tasks

Allon

Wellner, Chief Scientist at Forrest InnovationSlide10

Handling research data

Researchers should have more flexible methods for publishing & sharing their data

Use

of

figshare at Imperial College London

Goal:

To automate the process of showcasing and disseminating laboratory data deemed appropriate by the investigator for sharing beyond his lab.

Approach:

Professor Rzepa connected a crystallography machine into figshare via the API to push research outputs straight to figshare for dissemination and re-use. Results:Over 2000 research outputs have been published to figshare resulting in excess of 60,000 views.

Henry S. Rzepa, Emeritus Professor of Computational Chemistry, Imperial College LondonSlide11

Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000Research

Making it easier for authors to provide supplemental data

Use

of

figshare at F1000

Goals:

F1000Research has a mandate to make all the underlying data under the paper it publishes available to readers

As part of its Gold Article Processing Charge, it needed to provide authors with an option to store large, complex files related to their articles

Approach:F1000Research chose Figshare because it needed a stable, long-term repository that could easily handle changing and complex file formats for the data underlying published articlesFigshare also provides a unique, co-customized data object visualizer to assess the relevance of a supplemental data object upfrontResults:All supplemental files over 5Gbyte are now handled by figshare

Anecdotal evidence provided by Rebecca reveals that F1000 authors are finding potential partners for collaborators through the discovery of their research objects on figshareHandling research dataSlide12

Back to publishing

Andrew Creamer

, Librarian in

Brown’s Center

for Digital Scholarship

Libraries need new forms of effective outreach by rolling out new forms of scholarly communication

Use

of

Overleaf at Brown UniversityGoals:Allows the library to provide improved service to faculty and students. Computer scientists were complaining that conference proceedings were available through for free through Google Scholar and they were struggling to see the value of the library.

Approach:Provide tools for new forms of scholarly communication that bring efficiency to the collaborative writing processGet analytics on content is relevant to faculty members and studentsResults:

The

library gets the insight

and information

it

needs

The

students and faculty get a

great tool

for writing and

collaborating

The

University gets an

easy submission

portal for

its institutional

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Mike Winkler, Director for Information Technologies & Digital Development, U Penn Libraries

Clean the data & expose it to drive collaboration

Use

of

Symplectic at University of Pennsylvania

Goals:

To capture a complete picture of what faculty are producing

Minimize the compliance burden on facultyProfile the researcher productivity through the VIVO network increasing opportunities for discovery and collaboration

Approach:Use Symplectic as the only VIVO service provider to bring consistency and standardization to the researcher profiles and publications data from the Abrahamson Cancer Institution and the broader School of Medicine, and then egest and display that data through the VIVO networkResults:Profile data for 10,000 researchers and 250,000 publications was efficiently migrated into Elements

for half of the standing faculty in U Penn in less than 8 monthsFaculty in the School of Medicine can now touch and contribute data as part of their normal workflow through easy publication claiming & deposit

Research outputs & attentionSlide14

Juergen Wastl, Head of Research Information, Research Strategy Office, Cambridge University

Need to gather the indicators of impact

Use of Altmetric for Institutions at Cambridge University

Goals:

Gather and provide evidence of the

broader impact of their institution’s research

output (Important for Research Exercise Framework)

Capture all valuable data – for example where the research was having an impact on

public policyApproach:Use Altmetric for Institutions to benchmark research – comparing for example the volume and type of mentions in policy documents to those found in traditional journal citationsSee how Cambridge’s disciplines and institutional performance as a whole compares to that of their peers, making use of the full Altmetric database of all research outputs with online mentions to do

soResults:Within one month of use, Cambridge reported on 404 references to its articles in public policy documents, and 1,815 articles which received mainstream media coverage

Research outputs & attentionSlide15

Altmetric

Take a broader view of impact to help give credit where credit is dueSlide16

Funders want evidence of societal impact

Grant funders looking for proof of “

broader impacts

”

often defined as “an effect, change, or benefit to the

economy, society, culture, public policies, health, the environment, etc.”

Research

Excellence Framework,

http://www.ref.ac.uk

/panels/assessmentcriteriaandleveldefinitions/Broaden dissemination to

enhance scientific and technological understanding, for example,

by presenting

results of research and education projects in formats useful to students, scientists and engineers, members of Congress, teachers, and

the general public

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http://

www.nsf.gov

/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jspSlide17
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Example: social & mainstream media

Blogs, reviews, comments

Including Faculty of 1000,

PubPeer

,

MathOverflow

and the world’s largest curated index of academic blogs.

Newspapers & magazines

International titles, both mainstream and niche.

Social mediaSlide19

Example: policy documents

World Health Organization (WHO)

“WHO

policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities: guidelines for national

programmes

and other

stakeholders”

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

“Delivering

Accident Prevention at local level in the new public health system: Road safety policy and links to wider

objectives”

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC)

“Managing

the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change

Adaptation”Slide20

Institutions are using Altmetric to discover their impactSlide21
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