MAXIMISING THE VALUE OF RESEARCH FINDING & DATA: CROSS COMMUNITY INNOVATION Open Access at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Its Origins, Implementation and the Road Ahead Ashley Farley, @ashleydfarley Associate Officer, Knowledge and Research Services, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
How We Think What are the areas of greatest need? Where can we have the greatest impact? Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 3
Foundation Focus Areas GLOBAL HEALTH GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT UNITED STATES PROGRAM GLOBAL POLICY & ADVOCACY COMMUNICATIONS Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 4
OPENLY SHARING INFORMATION ACCELERATES OUR IMPACT
Gates Commitment to Open Access is Mission Driven Barrier-free access to foundation-funded research advances innovation and helps create a world where everyone has the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life.
What Open Access means to the Foundation Open Access terms CC-BY license Immediately available no embargo Underlying data is open Our Commitment the Foundation will pay reasonable fees to publish compliant with the policy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 7
Who s the Policy Apply To? All grant agreements signed after January 1 st, 2015 contain the following clause: With this clause all research that was funded in-part or in-whole must comply All grantees that would like to opt-in (no clause in their grant agreement) and benefit from the policy Our goal is to reach 100% compliancy so that all Gates funded research is Open Access
The Strength of the Policy EXCEPTIONS Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 9
Making Compliancy Easy Chronos will bring clarity to our researchers so they can focus on the research, not the process of publishing it.
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Introducing Gates Open Research Launching this Fall GATES OPEN RESEARCH Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 13
What is Different about Gates Open Research? Fast articles published within a week Inclusive all Gates-funded research outputs are suitable: traditional research articles, methods, software, data sets, protocols, negative and confirmatory results etc. Open fulfils the foundation s OA and data sharing requirements Reproducible - source data and code published alongside article Transparent open, author-led publishing Easy all costs are directly covered by the Gates Foundation
How it Works Fully transparent living articles Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 15
Open Peer Review Referee ratings: Full review history Approved Approved with reservations Not approved Minimal requirements for indexing: or All versions are citable and have separate DOIs
Data & Software Availability At-a-glance summary: Dataset and source code DOIs and direct citations References 14. Sinan Shi, osfesa: Bahler-Lab/crispr4p v1.0. Zenodo. 2016. Data Source 28. Rodriguez-Lopez M: A CRISPR/Cas9-based method and primer design tool for seamless genome editing in fission yeast. 2016. Data Source
Examples of Other Underlying Data Data only available as static figures/tables on publisher site not easily reusable or citable Data sets that are only available from the publisher site not searchable or citable Data only available as Online Supporting Material downloaded in a Word document not discoverable, citable, or machine readable
What Has Worked? Ability to measure the impact of our funding this is HUGE!! Supporting researchers with the arduous publishing process Paying from a central fund which frees grantees from worrying about locating publishing fees Article deposits directly into PubMed Central
What Needs Work? Data Management Progressing past underlying data guidelines Storage Discoverability Open Science Pre-registration Registered & open clinical trail data Registered protocols/methods
There is unprecedented potential for data & information to transform life in the 21st century. Let s unlock that potential.