interdisciplinary research and open access
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Interdisciplinary research and open access - a talk by Matt Cockerill at Berlin 10 Open Access meeting (Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 8th 2012)TRANSCRIPT
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Open Access and interdisciplinary research
Matthew Cockerill
Managing Director, BioMed Central
10th Berlin Open Access MeetingStellenbosch, South Africa
Thursday 8th November 2012
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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Open access helps eliminate barriers between disciplines
Under a subscription-based model, institutions and departments often only subscribe to essential journals for the specific field
Under open access, research benefits from cross-fertilization with ideas from other areas
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Some examples of cross-fertilization…
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1. Malaria
By James Gathany (CDC - PHIL) Public domain,
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Fields contributing towards under-standing and elimination of Malaria
• Parasitology• Immunology• Epidemiology• Infectious diseases• Clinical trials• Health services research
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Malaria Journal’s influence
More than 400 articles published annually The field is now dominated by open
access journals Malaria Journal Parasites & Vectors PLoS One PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Overall, 35% of malaria-related research in PubMed is now immediate open access
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2. Veterinary research
By Sigurdas (Wikimedia commons) CC-BY-SA-3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0,
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Veterinary research is badly served by traditional model
Traditional veterinary journals are infrequently read/cited by non-vets
High quality veterinary research has tended to be published in “basic science” journals
Veterinary medicine and human medical research can benefit by sharing findings
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Leading veterinary journals have embraced open access
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3. Sport science
By Robbie Dale (Flickr: Jess Ennis, Golden Girl) CC-BY-SA-2.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0,
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Cross-journal collaboration
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4. Biofuels
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Biofuels research• Plant
science/genetics/genomics/agronomy (Improving feedstock)
• Microbiology/Biotechnology(Improving processing & fermentation)
• Biochemistry (Re-engineering pathways)• Economics (Land-use change)
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5. Flavour research
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Research fields relating to Flavour
Chemistry / Biochemistry Neuroscience / Psychology Genetics / Genomics Public Health / Nutrition Obesity Food science Citizen science (chefs and more…)
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6. Medical Case Reports
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Cases DB
• Thousands of cases from all medical disciplines
• Text-mining enables convenient filtering by diagnosis, treatment, patient age etc
• Includes BioMed Central case reports and OA case reports from other publishers (available under CC license)
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Open access and case reports
• Case reports are more useful when aggregated into a coherent database that spans medical disciplines
• Breaks down barriers between medical researchers, specialist clinicians, GPs and patients
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7. Genome data
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8. Open Data
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Data-sharing and data repositories
Have taken off in certain areas Tend to be discipline-specific, e.g.
– Molecular sequence data (protein/dna)– Protein and chemical structures– Spectroscopy data– Biodiversity data– Public/government data
Interoperability is limited
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GigaScience
Research involving “big data” Sharing datasets in reusable form
(e.g. the ISA-TAB standard) Using cloud-computing approaches to
allow computational analyses to be easily reproduced and reused
Part of wider ‘open data’ efforts at BioMed Central
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Summary
Research rarely falls clearly into discrete disciplinary categories
The pen access model facilitates cross-fertilization between fields
Discipline-specific journals need no longer exist in isolation
Interdisciplinary journals are now viable and successful