Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities

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Tuesday 28 September 2021, 16:00pm - 17.15pm (British Summer Time) (UTC +1) Find out what time this is in your country

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Over the past decade, a marked increase has been seen in the publication of research data, driven by journal, funder, and institutional policies. This has brought ethical challenges specific to datasets, which often interface with the journal publication related to the dataset. To respond to these emerging challenges, the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group, in collaboration with COPE, is developing guidelines and resources to support journal editors, data repositories, and institutions in the handling of ethics cases related to research data.

In this session, the resources that the Working Group has developed will be presented and the speakers will discuss their experience with ethics cases related to research data publication, and how the resources can support different stakeholders in the handling of such issues. There will be opportunities for feedback from the audience on their own experience with cases involving research data and their views on resource needs for editors, to inform the Working Group’s next steps.

Moderator

Iratxe Puebla is Associate Director for ASAPbio, a nonprofit with a mission to accelerate innovation and transparency in life sciences communication. She is a FORCE11 member, and Facilitation and Integrity Officer for COPE.

Speakers

Daniella Lowenberg is based at California Digital Library, within the University of California Office of the President, where she leads various initiatives in open data publishing. She is currently the Product Manager for Dryad, Principal Investigator for the Sloan Foundation funded Make Data Count initiative, and co-chair of the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics working group.

Joerg Heber is the Research Integrity Officer of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Prior to joining the Laboratory in December 2020, Joerg has been a professional editor for more than fifteen years. In 2005 he joined Springer Nature as a manuscript editor at Nature Materials, and eventually served as the Executive Editor of Nature Communications. In 2016, Joerg was appointed PLOS ONE’s Editor-in-Chief and in 2020 took up the additional role as PLOS’ Editorial Director. Joerg holds a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London.

Scott Edmunds, (ORCID:0000-0001-6444-1436) is Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience, and is on the Board of Directors of the Dryad Digital Repository. His research training was on PhD cancer genetics at Queen Mary, University of London, and after postdoctoral positions he was senior scientific editor for the BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics journals at BioMed Central before moving in 2010 to Shenzhen/Hong Kong to set up the GigaScience journal and GigaDB database for the BGI (the world’s largest genomic organisation). GigaScience launched in July 2012, and their second journal, GigaByte, has just started publishing its first papers.

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Seminar sessions will be recorded using Zoom and posted publicly on COPE's YouTube channel and website after the event.

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COPE Seminar 2021 programme

The webinar is one of a series of nine sessions for COPE Seminar 2021, taking place over a week.