I’ve booked Poutama at 1pm tomorrow (Tues 20th) for this  – what looks to be really interesting – presentation on Open Access and metrics.

Webinar #3 – AOASG Webinar Series 2017 – Measuring what matters: metrics, incentives and openness

Presenters:

David M. Nichols – Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Michael B. Twidale – School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

As researchers wanting to advocate for open access, we decided to explore openness from the perspective of designing metrics. Doing this made us realize that metric design is a sociotechnical problem, involving considerations of what is easy to count, what is important to count—and what to do when these are different. 

In the paper Metrics for Openness we proposed several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures to represent the public availability of articles along with their archival location, licenses, access costs, and supporting information. These various measures provided valuable insights into the design space of metrics and inevitable trade-offs.

The simple act of measuring current practice can be a powerful incentive to alter that practice: we suggest authors could start with calculating their own Practical Openness Index. A further benefit to quantifying concepts relating to the openness of published research is to provide a basis for management and policy decision-making.

Tuesday 20th June, 2017 – WA 9am-10am – AEST 11am-12noon – NZ 1pm-2pm