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Best Practices/Making Research Results Available for Re-use
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice Create Business Accelerators to Encourage PSI Re-Use
Contents
Outline
Citizens should have access to research data and information.
Management summary
Challenge
Citizens and business must have access to research data and information generated with public funds. Researchers must have access to research results from other researchers. Research data must also be available for statistical purposes.
Solution
A first step would be to collect and link the metadata or to harvest the content itself. Amongst other things, legislation needs to be in place, looking at and keeping in mind issues such as copyright, the pro-active contribution of researchers, organizational setup and funding. .
Best Practice identification
Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice
Scientific achievements and results will be discoverable and measurable. Making research results available for re-use will facilitate co-operation and innovation amongst researchers, organisations and the academia. It can also be used to assign grants and budget to deserving research projects and the assessments of researchers efforts.
Links to the PSI Directive
- Policies and legislation (legal requirements, licenses etc..) / Licensing of information/data and metadata
- Dataset criteria and priorities and value and scope w.r.t. datasets
- Organisational structures and skills
- Data quality issues and solutions / Quality assurance, feedback channels and evaluation
- Data discoverability
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
At present, researcher and /or their organization are paying exuberant fees for research papers. The underlying raw- and/or results data is not available at all. Most of that research is paid for by public funds. It is furthermore unpractical that universities have different rules to assess scientific achievements, and that these cannot be validated. Decision makers, together with the organisations funding the research need the information and data for several obvious reasons.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
- Organizational imbedding
- The necessary ICT infrastructure
- Related legislation, including copyright issues
- Incentives for researchers to open up their publications, raw- and results data..
- ..coupled to and pre-requisite to access to funds.
Applicability to other Member States
Attempts in realizing this Best Practice have been made in other EU member states (Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden etc...). There is an obvious need on a national and international level to see results in this regard.
Contact info
- Andras Micsik, http://dsd.sztaki.hu/micsik
- Noël Van Herreweghe, noel.vanherreweghe@bz.vlaanderen.be