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Stead, Nicola

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Open Access Week, October 2017Nicola Stead, Senior Editor, PLOS ONEPLOSOpen Science at PLOS Who We Are: Public Library of SciencePLOS is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organizationwith a mission toaccelerate progressin science and medicineby leading a transformationin research communication.Open Access: PLOS Journals published under the CC-BY License• Free, immediate access online; no paywall and no embargo• Unrestricted distribution and reuse • Author retains rights to attribution and copyright• Papers are deposited in a public online archive, such as PubMed Central10.1371/journal.pone.010761010.1371/journal.pone.001786710.1371/journal.pone.001229210.1371/journal.pone.0002616For research in all areas of science and medicine. Work is not judged by perceived importance, but by whether it is done to high scientific and ethical standards, is appropriately described, and includes data to support the conclusions.Provides a venue for :• Negative results• “Unfashionable” results• Reproduction studiesPLOS ONE: Breaking the Journal Hopping CycleDo researchSubmit PaperPeer-reviewRejection cycleOpen Science: Going Beyond the Published ArticlePeer-reviewed manuscriptRegistered reportPreprintProtocol/MethodsComputer CodeDataOpen reviewsCreditData Sharing: PLOS Data Policy• PLOS journals require authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception.• When submitting a manuscript online, authors must provide a Data Availability Statement describing compliance with PLOS's policy. If the article is accepted for publication, the data availability statement will be published as part of the final article. Since March 2014What Is the Value of Research Data?• Replication/Validation• New analysis• Better interpretation• Inclusion in meta studies• Facilitate reproducibility• Scrutiny post-publication• Better financial and intellectual return on research investmentData deposition in public repositoryThe data availability statement is openly available, and machine-readable as part of the PLOS search API>81,000papers published with a data statement at PLOSRegistered Reports: Partnership with CTFSubmit Registered Report for review• Research question• Study design• Methodology & AnalysisIn-principle Acceptance (IPA)Undertake the study Write up resultsSubmit to PLOS ONE• Adherence to registered report• Quality of execution• Accuracy of interpretationCommitment to publish irrespective of support of original hypothesisProtocols.io: Open Access Repository of Science Methods Teytelman et al. 2016 PLOS BiologyAuthor CreditThe growing number of research output makes it difficult to assess individual contributions to research. Sharing of research contributions as part of Open Science requires mechanisms to credit individual researchers.Author Credit: CRediT taxonomy ConceptualizationMethodologySoftwareValidationFormal AnalysisInvestigationResourcesData CurationWriting – Original Draft PreparationWriting – Review & EditingVisualizationSupervisionProject AdministrationFunding AcquisitionA Taxonomy of Contributions• Provides authors attribution for what they contributed• Includes but is not limited to traditional author roles• Not intended to define authorship• Human- and machine-readableAuthor Credit: ORCID Article Level Metrics: Making an Impact Looking ahead: The future of Open Science• Preprints – accelerating research communication • Open review • Moving beyond open data e.g. depositing code in CodeOcean• Providing article-level credit for all research objects for publishing participants – authors, editors, reviewers, etc.Email: nstead@plos.orgTwitter: @PLOSONE or @mllechromatin

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