<font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, via the OKFN Open-Science list. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m interested in further developing some specific use
cases where open data (i.e. available under CC0 or equivalent terms) in journal
publications would be useful or lack of open data has been problematic –
to individual scientists/research groups, and perhaps even the original data
publishers. I’m aware of reasonable evidence of societal/economic benefits
for open data (e.g. within : <a href="http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/2/JISC_data_sharing_finalreport.pdf" target="_blank">http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/2/JISC_data_sharing_finalreport.pdf</a>;
<a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe0408.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe0408.pdf</a>)
but more evidence (aside from more citations, in microarray research), or
anecdotes/cases studies in its absence, of benefits to individuals/groups would
be good. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">E.g. “I am scientist doing X kind of experiment and being
able to reuse or harvest all types of Y data from Z journal (or publisher)
would be excellent because…”<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And ideally…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“here’s why the current model prohibits or
makes this difficult; or here’s an example of where such an approach has
been beneficial previously….<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to include some of these use cases as part of
a white paper, currently well under way, on implementation of a variable
license agreement for open access publications enabling CC0 for data (as agreed
at <a href="http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/report_from_the_publishing_open" target="_blank">http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/report_from_the_publishing_open</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone has any suggestions they would be much appreciated
– and of course acknowledged.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Iain<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Iain Hrynaszkiewicz<br>
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