OPEN SCIENCE

Dr. John Tennant

We are in the middle of a global research [r]evolution

These are (at least) five major “crises”:

1. Access – Most research still paywalled to most people

2. Reproducibility – Much research fails basic reproducibility tests
3. Serials – The dramatic Price increases of journals
4. Evaluation – The metric that shall not be named
5. Copyright – No longer serves researches or creators

We are stuck in closed ways of diffusion of science, with little option to reproduce and a
closest way of being just advertising.

Tools for open sharing

Mega-publishers are corrupting open science:

- Organisations stuck in a pre-digital mindset with a key product developed in the 17th
century
- Basically, the reason why Open Science movement began
- Business models based on exclusion, exploitation of privilege, discrimination,
extortion, etc.
- Who pay lip service to Open Science, while simultaneously subverting it to meet their
own intentions?
- We DO NOT share the same values and principles.

Four principles of the information system supporting research:

1. Transparent
2. Interoperable
3. User control
4. Source neutral

Plan S – the solution to all our problems?  cOAlition S: Making full and immediate Open
Access a reality.

Instead of Plan s trying to impose itself on the rest of the world (Neo-colonialism), we should
be asking how we can cooperate and learn from the huge successes of Latin America.
 La producción científica peruana en SCOPUS y el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de
Desarrollo Sostenible

Mg. Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza

Problemas de la investigación:

- Replicabilidad
- Pertinencia (oportuna y conveniente)
- Relevancia (temas de importancia)
- Impacto Verificable (Citas)
- Impacto Social (?)  Debemos tener publicaciones que sirvan, que tengan un impacto
social que beneficie al conjunto a la sociedad. Es difícil medir el impacto social.

Proyecto AURORA

El impacto social no ha sido planteado por las Universidades de manera seria  Importante.

Impacto social  La investigación influye en la toma de decisiones políticas; Uso social /

Socialmente disponible (Acceso abierto)

Calidad de la investigación  La política influye en la configuración del enfoque de

investigación; Excelencia en la investigación / Producción científica.

CC-BY: Maurice Vanderfeesten.

Página de la Unidad de Bibliometría de la Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola.

Muchas de las publicaciones de la Católica son Proceedings, mientras que muchas de la

Cayetano son internacionales, lo que demuestra una gran dependencia del exterior.

¿Estamos investigando temas que tengan impacto en el Perú? Se vio que se ha hecho en el
proyecto AURORA
 Writing tips for researchers

Why publish?

- Fame:
o Recognition by peers
- FOrtune:
o Promotions
o Grant applications
- Establish precedence
- Responsibility:
o Taxpayer-funded research
- Making your research public:
o “If your research does not generate papers, it might just as well not have been
done”. George WHitesides.
o Papers provide the shoulders that others can stand on.

What to publish?

- Original research articles

o Share new results.
o Rapid communications, letters, full papers.
- Literature reviews
o Discuss knowledge accumulated in published literature.
o Reviews, mini-reviews, overviews, perspectives, essays.

Where to submit?

- Journal Impactor Factor is not everything!

- What are the implications of your research?
- Whom do you want to reach with this publication? Whom can you (realistically) reach?
- How important will others find your research?
o In your fields?
o In related fields?
- Where do you read papers related to your research? Which do you like the most?
- What is the scope of your candidate journal?
- Who reads your candidate journal?
- What is the format of your candidate journal?
- What is the jounral’s copyright policy?
- Is that subscription based or Open Access?
- How fast is their submission to publication tiem?
- What’s the journal stand on self-archiving?
- Does the journal allow you to comply with your funder’s mandates?
- What is their policy on prior publication?
o In online/only printed conference proceedings
o In online

Content access:

- Subscription only journals:

o Free to publish but need to be subscriber to read
 - Open Access Journals:
o Articles are freely accessible online
o Authors can pay an Article Publication Charge (APC)
o The APC can be paid via the authors instituton or funding.
- Hybrid journals:
o Subscription journal that allows open access publications
o Article can be published behind or outside paywall.

Beware of predatory journals:

- Predatory journals:
o Use the open (completar)

Where to start

- Always read carefully the journal’s guidelines for authors:

o What is requir