User:OpenScientist/Open grant writing/Open-Access-Transformation

''This page serves the preparation of a proposal in response to the DFG call "Open-Access-Transformation" on transformative aspects of Open Access. Contributions to this page are licensed CC BY 4.0.''

Important dates

 * July 16: Workshop on testing open versus closed science, as part of OKFest
 * August 6-10: Wikimania
 * August 15, 2014: Deadline for 
 * October 20-26: Open Access Week
 * October 31, 2014: Submission deadline

Publishing along the research cycle

 * Description: Traditional research publishing was and still is focused on communicating the final outcomes of a research project. We propose to explore the ramifications of researchers sharing their research with the world as soon as they record it for themselves, throughout the research cycle. Special attention will be paid to effects on communication within the respective research fields and across scientific disciplines as well as on science journalism, science education and public engagement with the research.
 * Submitted to the DFG by Daniel Mietchen (discuss • contribs) 21:45, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Submission guidelines

 * Call
 * Form 12.11: Guidelines Electronic Publications
 * "Use the basic module to request funding for direct project costs, project specific staff, and instrumentation necessary to carry out the project. It is also possible to request funding to pay for services provided by publishing houses in collaborative projects under the heading of "Other"."
 * Form 52.01: Module Basic Module
 * "If you would like to conduct workshops as part of your project, you may request funding to help you do so. Please note that this module cannot be submitted separately but only in conjunction with the proposed project."
 * Form 52.06: Module Project-Specific Workshops
 * Form 12.01: Proposal Preparation Instructions Project Proposals in the Area of Scientific Library Services and Information Systems

Ideas for projects
We could try to combine several of them into one proposal, or separate them out into different ones.
 * Open research proposals
 * Testing open versus closed science
 * Encyclopaedia of original research
 * I have been concerned about increased openness of electronic medical records, and more broadly the open movement being co-opted by major commercial entities who do not wish to "open" their own work but do want to scrape consumer content with support of the open movement. I might be interested in making a statement which gives guidelines about how consumers should participate in the open movement by sharing their data. In short, many commercial entities are asking the public to be more "open" by giving them their personal information, which then is held in a closed system while telling the public that they are doing "open science". Such practices are expanding, and while I am not ready to oppose them, I would like to state clearly that the solicitation of data donations by corporations who want to add to their private databases is not the spirit of the open movement. I have had trouble finding statements about this and might wish to help make one if none exists.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   15:47, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Automated tools that could verify - on the basis of proper JATS tagging - that publications arising from research supported by a funder conform to their OA requirements (more details).
 * Machine readable OA mandates and policies
 * Agent-based modeling of the decision landscape around OA
 * Thinking about the discussions at Wikimania I think it would be very exciting to combine the idea of starting to move content into WikiSource/Commons and then to use this as the basis for RCT testing of its downstream use. Given that downloads/pageviews can be tracked we could take a proper design of experiments approach to important questions around citation/usage advantage, effects on upstream repositories (like publishers), while also funding work that would help move this agenda forward. See also --Cameronneylon (discuss • contribs) 08:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Interested participants or institutions

 * Daniel Mietchen, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin