Anadventureinopenresearchdataremix,licensingandprovenance:casestudyoftheOpenAccessAr:cleProcessingCharges(OA

APC)longitudinalstudy

HeatherMorrisonhAp://arts.uoAawa.ca/sis/people/morrison-heather

RDA-CODATAInterestGroupontheLegalInteroperabilityofResearchDataSeptember20,2017Montréal

OAAPClongitudinalstudy

•  Funding:SSHRCsustainingknowledgecommons.org(2014–2021)

•  What/ifpublisherscharge(fullgold)•  Why?Trends:– Tochargeornottocharge?– Compe::onorongoinginelas:cmarket?

•  Dataverse:hAps://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/oaapc

Datasources&licensing

Solomon&Björk2010

•  Unpublished•  Researcher-to-researcher•  Permissiontopublishasopendataassumed

•  Commitmenttotakeoverthework

Publisherdata

Elsevierpricelist–licensing??

•  PricelistPDF:noindica:onoflicense•  PagePDFdownloadedfrom:

“Copyright©2017Elsevier,exceptcertaincontentprovidedbythirdparty”

PublicLibraryofSciencehAps://www.plos.org/publica:on-fees

PLOSTermsofUsehAps://www.plos.org/terms-of-use

“Reproduc*onofAr*clesAr:clesandaccompanyingmaterialspublishedbyPLOSonthePLOSSites,unlessotherwiseindicated,arelicensedbytherespec:veauthorsofsuchar:clesforuseanddistribu:onbyyousubjecttocita:onoftheoriginalsourceinaccordancewiththeCrea:veCommonsAAribu:on(CCBY)license.

OwnershipofContentThecopyrightinthematerialcontainedonthePLOSSitesbelongstoPLOSoritslicensors.ThetrademarksandotherelementsappearingonthePLOSSitesareprotectedbyCalifornia,US,andinterna:onalcopyright,tradedress,patent,andtrademarklaws,interna:onalconven:onsandotherrelevantandapplicablelaws.”

PLOSprices&licensing

•  Pricelistsarenotar:cles;hencePLOSownscontent/copyright.

Mysteriousdisappearanceofdata

•  BMC&Springerscreen-scrapabletablesofAPCsmysteriouslydisappearshortlyaderblogpostcomparingBMC2010–2016priceincreaseswithinfla:on

•  Q:whataboutresearchwheredataownersdon’twantanyonetodotheresearch?

Canpublishersforbidresearchonpricing?

•  Precedent(Barschall):StanfordUniversity&YaleUniversity(1997).Gordon&Breachv.AmericanIns4tuteofPhysicsandAmericanPhysicalSociety.RetrievedDecember23,2011fromhAp://barschall.stanford.edu/

•  Myargument:academicresearchrequiresfairdealingandacademicfreedom–tocollect,share,analyzeandreportondataresearchevenwhendataownerisantagonis:c

DOAJmetadata:hAps://doaj.org/faq#metadata

•  “Doyouhaveanyrestric*onsonthereuseofyourmetadata?

•  ThedatainDOAJislicensedtoyouundertheCrea:veCommonsAAribu:on-ShareAlikeLicense(CCBY-SA)”.

•  Mytake:DOAJisawareofmyresearchandnotinterestedinstoppingthiskindofresearch.DOAJdataisincluded.

Conundrum1

•  CanyoulegallyremixdatalicensedCC-BY-SAwithdatapublishedassumingpermission,&dataforwhichthereisgoodreasontoassumenopermission,&releasetheresul:ngremixasCC-BY-SA?

Mytake:nolicenseisbest

•  Waivingcopyrightimpliesclaimingcopyright;Icannotclaimcopyrightonsomeoneelse’swork(ElsevierorPLOSpricelists)

OAAPClicensestatement–from:hAp://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/2/2/13/htm

“4.UsingTheseData(Licensing)Thisdatasetisderivedfromseveralsources,includingtheDOAJmetadata(whichhasitsownlicensetermspostedontheDOAJwebsite),otherdatascreen-scrapedfromDOAJ,factualdatagatheredfrompublisher’swebsites,2015dataprovidedbyWaltCrawford,2010dataprovidedbySolomonandBjörk,andourteam’sanalysis.Ifyouaremakinguseofourdatasetasawhole,pleasecite:Morrison,H.;Brutus,W.;Dumais-DesRosiers,M.;Kakou,T.L.;Laprade,K.;Merhi,S.;Salhab,J.;Volkanova,V.&Wheatley,S.Openaccessar:cleprocessingchargeslongitudinalstudy2016dataset[hAp://dx.doi.org/10.5683/SP/KC2NBV].Ifyouaredrawingfromtheothersources,pleasecitetheothersources.Thereisnolicenseforthedatasetasawhole,asindividualelementsarederivedfromdifferentsources,whichmayhavetheirownterms”.

Conundrum2:provenance

•  Understandinglicensinginaremixdatasetmayrequireunderstandingtheprovenanceofthedata(whereitcomesfrom)

PLUS:

•  Conduc:ngresearchusingaremixdatasetwithoutin-depthunderstandingoftheprovenanceofthedatacouldresultinerrors(worse,replicableerrors)

Conundra3aand3b:downstreamremix

•  Case1:poten:aldownstreamre-userboundbyopenlicensingrequirement=cannotusethisdataset

•  Case2:aAribu:on,downstreamderiva:ve&contribu:ons– Commitmenttotakeoverthework?– Addafewdatapoints?

Conclusions

•  Opendata(unlikeopenaccesstoscholarlyar:cles)involvesopeningupaccesstoatypeofworknotpreviouslypublished.

•  Differentkindsofdatalikelyneeddifferenttypesoflicensingtreatment

•  Some:mesweneedsomeclosuretoaccomplishopenness

Ques:ons??

Thankyou!!!

HeatherMorrison

AssociateProfessor,UniversityofOAawaSchoolofInforma:onStudiesHeather.Morrison@uoAawa.ca

hAp://arts.uoAawa.ca/sis/people/morrison-heather