Speak Out April 2019

Enchiridion Publishing your work Getting your head around Open Scholarship

WHETHER YOU ARE NEW TO THE AREA OF PUBLISHING OR A RELATIVELY OLD HAND, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DEVELOPMENTS TAKING PLACE IN THE FIELD THAT ARE GOOD TO FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH.

more replicable, preserving data long-term for future studies, and exploring data more deeply rather than just fueling a single article. The future here is likely to be a challenging one, making it important to take one step at a time. At the moment, T&F are encouraging a considered roll out of a basic data sharing policy – the diagram on the next page (diag 1) sets it out nicely here. Researchers are encouraged to share their data (see the basic level), but sights are set on ultimately moving to an open and fully FAIR model (FAIR = Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). More information on FIR data can be found here: www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/the-fair-data- principles. Despite support, data sharing is not without its challenges. Concerns have been expressed around whether a different researcher would understand the data and the spirit in which it was collected and analysed, even whether other researchers may scoop the original author and use it for their own gain. Data privacy, particularly as our research almost always involves human participants, is also on the table. There are clear times when privacy concerns, national security or commercial interests prevent or limit data sharing and, for some populations, there are still no suitable repositories that can house data. For people publishing in IJSLP and other T&F journals, a dedicated inbox has been set up to support researchers and editors. This can be found at datasharing@tandf.co.uk – if you have any questions around data sharing, do please send them here and hopefully, your questions will be answered. If you want to know more about these developments, there are some good pages on the T&F author services website: On the TOP guidelines authorservices.taylorandfrancis. com/topguidelines Data sharing policies authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/ understanding-our-data-sharing-policies Open Science badges authorservices.taylorandfrancis. com/open-science-badges Natalie Davall Publisher, Taylor & Francis Australasia Natalie.davall@tandf.com.au Anne Whitworth Editor, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ijslp.editor@curtin.edu.au Kirrie J Ballard Editor, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ijslp.editor@sydney.edu.au

Open Scholarship is relevant to us all, whether you are a consumer of research or seeking avenues to disseminate your research work. Open scholarship is an umbrella term that encompasses both our attitudes and new tools being developed that are intended to directly enhance the transparency, reproducibility and robustness of research. You may be familiar with Open Access, which gives us, as users of research, unrestricted access to a research article we want to use to improve our practice. But there are a whole lot of conversations taking place around the broader concept of Open Scholarship. In a nutshell, this is looking at how the whole research lifecycle can be opened up to consumers and other researchers. This covers how you plan your research, all the way through to disseminating it. Taylor & Francis, who publish IJSLP, are actively engaging in this process and are exploring various ways to support researchers throughout the cycle. There is growing global support for Open Scholarship. Internationally, over 50 funders now support open access to outputs beyond the research article. Here, not only is the final article shared openly, but the protocols and data may also be made available. These data and materials can be stored in a variety of repositories specifically designed for this purpose. There still remains a lot of variation across different disciplines, organisations (e.g. universities) and journals, and it is still very early days in this space for many of us. One field that has been doing this for many years is that of genetics where it is standard practice to make all DNA sequence data available in an open access database upon publication of the associated research article. Based in the USA, GenBank is managed by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Biotechnology Information. So, while there will be lots of variety and difference at a local level, there is a ground swell for collaboration on a global level – all with a view to advancing knowledge. So what’s happening? Different guidelines have been developed, for example, the TOP Guidelines from the Center for Open Science - Transparency and Openness Promotion. These are aiming to map good ideals in research to actual practices. So far, activity has focused on determining policies and guidelines for how data are shared – no simple feat when different organisations manage ethical processes differently. For example, hospitals are likely to have different processes to language development units. Are researchers supporting this? In the 2017 Open data: The researcher perspective report , researchers in general agreed with the benefits of sharing research data, with 73 per cent of researchers surveyed agreeing that having access to others’ data would benefit their own work. And the benefits are? These include making research findings

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