Using the Research of Others Responsibly: An Overview of Attribution, Copyright, and Authorship Ethics

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Scholarly Publishing Education for Academic Authors: Reframing the Library’s Instruction Role

Scholarly publishing has made great strides in fulfilling the vision of open access, with more journals and papers now freely available to read and reference on the Internet. Yet that achievement falls short of a truly global open, trusted, and reuseable scholarly record. What are the next steps in openness and the pain points in providing completely open scholarship? Education about the publishing process is still developing, particularly when the publishing infrastructure includes the same colonial systems and biases in academic research and publishing that persist throughout academia. These biases influence what gets published, who gets tenure, what research gets funded, and what scholarship and knowledge is prioritized in the world. The University of San Francisco has an explicitly social justice mission, and addresses its scholarly communication efforts directly at the intersection of social justice and scholarly communication. To address this intersection, librarians can work to help researchers build new competencies to understand and evaluate the diversity of innovative authoring and publishing choices and requirements; choose those that best meet their needs; and implement the changes required in other parts of their work. At Caltech, efforts are made to make research more transparent, reusable, and repeatable through the Author Carpentry program, a campus researcher training initiative focusing on 21st century authoring and publishing skills, practices and tools. Adapted from the highly successful and globally-engaging Software and Data Carpentry researcher training program, Author Carpentry develops, maintains, and delivers high-quality lessons and training sessions for researchers that offer high impact, interactive learning opportunities for researchers at all career stages

Cascading compliance requirements for thesis-related data and software: A survey of institutional policy at American (AAU) research universities

According to the CODATA/Research Data Alliance Principles on the Legal Interoperability of Research Data (https://rd-alliance.org/group/rdacodata-legal-interoperability-ig/wiki/legal-principles-data.html), the distribution and dissemination of research data (including software) is, to a significant extent, governed by law and institutional policy that specify ownership of these research outputs and the rights such ownership conveys. In the United States, copyright does not affix to purely factual information, but may govern sharing and reuse of protectable elements in a dataset (selection, arrangement, database design, and documentation) and software (original code, comments, and documentation). Moreover, institutional policy may establish that ownership of research data and software belongs to the University, not the creator. Researchers may be obligated to cede control of their outputs to the University's technology transfer or legal counsel's office. Additionally, research funding agencies may require, as a condition of awarding a grant, that outputs created with their support be disseminated in a particular manner. This confluence of circumstances leaves graduate students in a complex and confusing compliance framework requiring clear understanding and careful navigation of cascading requirements. As enrolled students, does their work fall under the institute's copyright policy statements? Are the textual components of their theses handled differently than the associated research data and software? Is the research data and software they produce to fulfill graduation requirements owned by anyone? If so, who? And what rights and choices do students have to control, share, and invite reuse of their research? The author, as a member of the CODATA/Research Data Alliance Legal Interoperability of Research Data interest group and a coauthor of the draft principles, has investigated the legal and policy provisions surrounding research data and software created at research universities in the United States. Analysis of the policies of the institutions belonging to the Association of American Universities reveals a highly variable and confusing landscape for American graduate students at this time. The seemingly incomplete guidance and at times contradictory assertions being made around ownership of graduate student data and software yields uncertainty and risk for non-compliance with legal and policy requirements. This presentation will summarize the chief areas of American law and policy that impact the sharing of graduate research outputs and point out areas of uncertainty and confusion. The presenter will share summary data from the full text analysis of AAU institutions' posted IP policies, theses manuals, and repository deposit licenses that represent assertions about student rights in their research data and software. The discussion component of the presentation recommends model language that could be adopted to ensure greater clarity and compliance to help graduate students and their advisors make sound dissemination decisions

Sharing Research Openly with Creative Commons: An AuthorCarpentry Lesson

This lesson covers the basics of copyright, open licensing, and the public domain with particular focus on using Creative Commons licenses and waivers to share research outputs openly. Specific skills demonstrated include selecting and applying a CC license or waiver; evaluating the reuse conditions associated with a CC-licensed work; and attributing a work distributed with a CC license or waiver

Sharing Research Openly with Creative Commons: An AuthorCarpentry Lesson

This lesson covers the basics of copyright, open licensing, and the public domain with particular focus on using Creative Commons licenses and waivers to share research outputs openly. Specific skills demonstrated include selecting and applying a CC license or waiver; evaluating the reuse conditions associated with a CC-licensed work; and attributing a work distributed with a CC license or waiver

Everglades Online Thesaurus: A Standard Vocabulary for the South Florida Ecosystem

The Everglades Online Thesaurus is a structured vocabulary of concepts and terms relating to the south Florida environment. Designed as an information management tool for both researchers and metadata creators, the Thesaurus is intended to improve information retrieval across the many disparate information systems, databases, and web sites that provide Everglades-related information. The vocabulary provided by the Everglades Online Thesaurus expresses each relevant concept using a single ‘preferred term’, whereas in natural language many terms may exist to express that same concept. In this way, the Thesaurus offers the possibility of standardizing the terminology used to describe Everglades-related information — an important factor in predictable and successful resource discovery

Using the Research of Others Responsibly: An Overview of Attribution, Copyright, and Authorship Ethics

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