RENALTRACT Short-Course: “Transferable skills” presented by Laurence Bianchini - MyScienceWork

1. Laurence Bianchini
COO MyScienceWork
laurence.bianchini@mysciencework.com
Open Access
Impact on a scientific career

2. Today: Open Access as a reality
25th Birthday in August 2016
In France, since Jan. 2011 the submission of
all theses manuscripts is mandatory in TEL

3. Open Access Explained!
Credit: PhD Comics TV: http://phdcomics.com/tv

4. Benefits:
•Show case findings / Improve reputation
•Increase citations
•Attract opportunities (position, projects…)
•Increased value and impact of your research
•Stimulate debate
•Spark ideas and useful insights
The OA citation advantage http://sparceurope.org/oaca/
Open Access Benefits
For your career.
As an ideology.

5. Why I Became an Open Scientist
Image credit: http://research.iheartanthony.com/2012/05/31/why-i-became-an-open-scientist/
What’s an Open Scientist?
• Open Access to peer-reviewed articles
& other content
• Being available to discussion
(profiles on social networks, blogs)
• Open NoteBook / Lab Book
• Open Data

6. Why I Became an Open Scientist
Image credit: http://research.iheartanthony.com/2012/05/31/why-i-became-an-open-scientist/
What? Where / How?
Peer-review articles OA journal, Repositories
(BioArxiv, HAL, institution repository)
Posters, Books Repositories, Figshare
Presentations SlideShare
Thesis HAL, TEL
Ideas, News
(conference, article, result, funding)
Blogs, Social media, Emails
Datasets Figshare, Zenodo
In general: ask your advisor, your colleagues and your librarian.
Share What, Where and How ?

7. Can you find the fulltext
of your latest paper?
ArXiv (repository) -- PDF
ResearchGate -- PDF
AIP (the publisher) ------->
Google Scholar -- PDF from ArXiv
LinkedIn -- PDF from ArXiv
MyScienceWork -- PDF
Personal website -- PDF from ArXiv
(or your team’s latest paper)

8. Crowdsourced databases
http://sci-hub.io -> desactivated
http://sci-hub.bz
http://sci-hub.cc
(the black market of academic papers)

9. Copyrights
 Sherpa/Romeo colors
- Immediate release in OA
- After 6 to 12 month embargoes
- Never!!

10. A Career Boost from Open, Collaborative Science
Daniel Himmelstein UCSF, Open Access Week 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeDpvvOixg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-E7PheIRs
Realtime Open Science on Thinklab & The Horrors of Data
Copyright - Daniel Himmelstein, UCSF
Massively Collaborative Open Science
22 reviewers, 53 discussions & 293 comments
after 9 months

11. For Further Discussion
laurence.bianchini@mysciencework.com
Lauren Bianchini
COO
http://polaris.expert
www.mysciencework.com