[CODATA-international] Brown (2020) Big Secret in the Academy (article) on Open Access and lack thereof

[Amanullah Jr]

Is there any impact factor journal regarding plants science and soil
science. So that we share our data please

Dr. Amanullah

On Fri, May 29, 2020, 1:08 AM Hans Pfeiffenberger <hp at hans-pfeiffenberger.de>
wrote:

> Am 28.05.20 um 16:28 schrieb Fraser Taylor:
>
> The protection of Indigenous knowledge is very important and this is
> covered in Article Six. The reality however is that the issues covered by
> the article are so broad that anyone wishing to keep their data private can
> do so. This was an uneasy compromise but the general thrust to keep data
> open is clear.
>
>
> The phrase "there are legitimate reasons to restrict access to and reuse
> of data, including interests of national security, law enforcement,
> privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property" has been part of every
> declaration on open data of the last decade I am aware of, which has been
> (formally) endorsed by major institutions. At least in the case of those I
> was involved in, I happen to know that without it there would have been no
> endorsement.
>
> The only part of that phrase I am truly comfortable with is the word
> "legitimate": Exactly because the clause is so broad and vague, and, in the
> better declarations, it is bracketed by the principle "as open as possible,
> as closed as necessary" and the requirement of "express justification" (in
> each case), each case of not disclosing data can be subjected to scrutiny
> and the onus is on the person, institution or country holding it back.
>
> Falk made us aware of an interesting article. While it it does not fully
> justify the claim in the title that "Most Research Is Secret" (that may
> just be true in the US) - it unrolls the unfortunate consequences of
> research compromised by secrecy. This article and its topic of health
> physics provide a very clear rationale why, in this case, there was no
> legitimacy to keeping research results secret.
>
> It would perhaps be good to assemble a collection of case studies - such
> as this one, but also ones that underpin valid, legitimate reasons *for*
> restrictions  - to help guide the ethically and scientifically sound
> evaluation of the justifications of restrictions. (Of course, such studies
> would need to be subject to, preferably open, peer review and/or other
> quality control, to avoid being misled by narrative based on false claims.)
>
> For example, which detrimental things happen when Indigenous knowledge is
> made openly available?
> I somehow remember a case in the UK, where the tobacco industry tried to
> use a "freedom of information" act to get at data from a study on how
> juveniles acquired the addiction to smoking - and anyone can guess how they
> would have used it. Scientific rules might have said that data should best
> be open to scrutiny - but ethics clearly says: Not so fast!
>
> Hans
>
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> Academy (article) on Open Access and lack thereof
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> The Beijing Declaration on Research Data
> <https://zenodo.org/record/3552330#.Xs-tt9rQhEY> has a prescription for
> closed research data in article 6, although I see that the final version
> removed the recommendation for data management plans include an embargo
> expiration date.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:31 PM Falk Huettmann <fhuettmann at alaska.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Kind Colleagues,
>
> as most people on this listerserver and in agencies promote the news that
> we are all moving towards Open Access, and that things get better that way
> and more transparent, or even more
> trustworthy,
> I would like to share with you below a recent article by the esteemed
> American Association of
> University Professors (AAUP), titled
>
> The Big Secret in the Academy Is That Most Research Is Secret: The
> dangerous rift between open and classified research, Spring 2020
> By Kate Brown
>
> https://www.aaup.org/article/big-secret-academy-most-research-secret#.Xs7TDERKhhE
>
>
> It deals with Chernobyl as a case study but has many wider implications
> and statements within on data access issues and the sciences, globally.
>
> It mirrors what I know and see, and what I have expressed last years.
>
> It also reminds of such type of works (see facts and details within,
> specifically data and digital society issues) like:
>
> https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533258/how-will-capitalism-end-by-wolfgang-streeck/
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Against-Everything-Essays-Mark-Greif-ebook/dp/B019B6WTZW
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Wars-Battlefield-Jeremy-Scahill/dp/156858671X
>
>
> The best way to proceed here, in a good way, is to fully acknowledge the
> status quo,
> and then improve on it dramatically for betterment.
> I lack those acknowledgements though and actions even, or a valid vision,
> beyond just arbitrary piecemeal with many loop holes and ineffciencies.
>
> That's my view.
>
> Thanks, please keep me posted on this topic.
> Very best regards
>    Falk Huettmann  PhD, Professor
>      University of Alaska Fairbanks
>
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