Open Science in (In)Action: Why, What, and How

Gáspár Jékely
Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University

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Open Science in (In)Action: Why, What, and How Gáspár Jékely Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University

Open Science in (In)Action: Why, What, and How
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UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
What is open science?
The Budapest Open Access Initiative
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
One example - the Uniprot database
Why do we need open science?
Most source data collected by scientists are not available
Majority high-impact cancer studies fail to replicate
Reporting and citation bias
Code is very often not shared or not shared stably
Flipped protein structures due to buggy program
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
Most scientists use software developed for accounting
Current state of scholarly digital infrastructure and knowhow
An epidemic of retractions
Perverse incentives, publish or perish
Impact factor - not a metric of quality
IF - statistically flawed
IF - strongly biased by outliers
JIF does not correlate with quality metrics (e.g. statistical power)
But: JIF correlates with retractions
Open Publishing and False Metrics
New approaches to research assessment
Progress is slow and hijacked
Current system is hugely wasteful
Kleptistan (Binjistan) - I
Kleptistan (Binjistan) - II
Kleptistan (Binjistan) - III
Unacceptable practices of data tracking by publishers
Open Science under attack
Open Science under attack
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Major repositories and databases in constant danger
We have the solution, but not the balls to implement it
What should scientists and institutions do?
What should scientists and institutions do?
Open Alex
eLife
EBI Bioimage Archive
What is the solution? - The Fediverse for Science
Towards a new, federated scholarly infrastructure
One example for publishing - Open Research Europe (ORE)
Sharing code in an ideal world - federated GitLab servers
Code with persistend DOI
An European Infrastructure for Open Science
…still early days
Summary