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How much do libraries spend on subscriptions?

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See all the wonderful things Alex Henderson has made

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Some research disciplines may be focused on publishing books rather than publishing articles on journals. The policies for the open-ness would be different between the two. Could we expect that  the library would support for both?

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Some research disciplines may be focused on publishing books rather than publishing articles on journals. The policies for the open-ness would be different between the two. Could we expect that  the library would support for both?

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 1) infrastructure (incl. publishing) always costs - that needs to be accepted and what is happening here is moving funding from closed bits of infrastructure and move to open - that’s the argument that has to be won with senior HEI management 2) One solution is where funders support journals and don’t charge APC’s to grant holders 3) the phase transition is where the funds that libraries spend on journals gets redirected to paying APC’s.

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It's all very interesting if a little overwhelming. Any advice at this stage of the PhD (4 months in)?

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How would you change the structure of university funding to improve the quality of research?

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How would you change the structure of university funding to improve the quality of research?

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Should we push back against the REF exercise suggesting a star-rating for outputs? This is a driver for inappropriate behaviour.

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When a publication is deemed to be subject to adulteration, the institute can be approached to determine whether it was an error, or deliberate. The institute is then open to reputational damage. A careful line needs to be drawn between blindly assuming the authors are fraudulent and either trying to cover it up or terminating the authors’ contract, or supporting a full and fair investigation. We need a mechanism to have this as an Open exercise.

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The gentleman from the Lancet is a little disingenuous when he says most research is wrong and blaming low power tests. It is not possible to get funds for large trials without some preliminary results suggesting the research is heading in a positive direction. These preliminary studies are, by default, low power.

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Software training should be increased across UoM. Software and Data Carpentries are excellent resources, but seldom taught and with small class sizes.

R and Python have a steeper learning curve than other packages due to their flexibility. Many researchers require a higher level of abstraction since their expertise is in their daily activity rather than in learning to program.

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Software configuration is difficult and open source software is often less easy to use since there is no organised ‘helpdesk’.

The Turing Way presented some work on errors present in different versions of Python packages. Just because it is open source, does not make it correct. Many proprietary packages have experts who work to ensure their offering performs correctly. It is this expertise they sell.

I think it would be helpful to separate the use of open source, because it is possible to see how the calculations are performed under-the-hood, from the availability of these proprietary packages and accessibility to then in other institutes that are less well funded.

We can still publish our scripts for correctness.

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I understand Microsoft Access is somewhat deprecated in Microsoft Office, so a better solution is required. Unfortunately, UoM has yet to release its database service (RLP change project N1). Once released there will be a large requirement for training since database design is less straightforward than spreadsheet use.

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Excel is good at what it does, the problem is that it is often used in scenarios where it is not suitable. It is often used where a database would be more appropriate. That data can then be analysed in a spreadsheet, or other platform technology. The conversion of genes (and other codes) to dates is because the column was formatted as ‘General’ and Excel made a ‘best guess’. This is a schema issue and a database will have the same problem, converting numbers to text string for example.

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For Andrew: does Access also have the errors caused by Excel?

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For Andrew, Nice presentation but  how realistic is it to expect us all to give up on MATLAB and GraphPad and instead programme for ourselves in R or other open source systems?

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You can train everyone in skills but if there is not sufficient finance to publish then people will not use open access publications

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How can you find a balance between protecting IP rights over data, and making data open?

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Can you share any experiences of open platforms and tools, including opening access to code and software, as well as any other tools or services that can promote efficiency in research?