Open Science at the Royal Society Dr Stuart Taylor Publishing Director http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0862-163X

The Royal Society The national academy of sciences for the UK and Commonwealth

The Royal Society Founded in 1660; Royal charter in 1662 Fellowship of 1600 of the world’s most eminent scientists The Society’s fundamental purpose is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. What we do fund research (1,300 grants, £75m per year) provide science advice to policymakers recognise excellence publish research promote international collaboration public engagement

Focal points

Our publishing - origins March 6th 1665 : Philosophical Transactions The world’s first science journal Registration Verification Dissemination Archival

Our publishing - today Two open access journals, eight hybrids 8,500 submissions/year, 3,000 articles published/year. £7.5m turnover

Publishing science serves two mission objectives Mission alignment Publishing science serves two mission objectives Verification and dissemination of research findings; curation of the literature Generation of funds to support other Royal Society activities

Open Access Introduced open access option in all journals in 2006 First open access journal launched in 2010 Open access licence is CC-BY 4.0 We encourage our authors to post preprints We allow deposit of the accepted verion in repositories without embargo

The Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication Stakeholders Senior scientists Early career scientists Funders Institutions Learned Societies / Academies Publishers Science communicators Industry Technology Inform the future development of our own publishing Topics Peer review Reproducibility Research ethics / misconduct Future of the article Research evaluation / metrics Business models Open science May 2015

The Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication 1. Research assessment and reward structure Publication bias Pressure to commit research misconduct Upward pressure on APC levels Chilling effect on progress to OA Chilling effect on data sharing Chilling effect on preprinting Dysfunctional market in science publishing 2. Transparency Intelligently open data  maximise benefits and reproducibility of research Open peer review Institutions more transparent about misconduct cases Publishers more transparent about costs and ‘big deal’ pricing Journals publish citation distributions Author identifiers to reduce fraud May 2015

Science Policy Positions 2012 – Science as an Open Enterprise policy report 2013 – Evidence to House of Lords select committee on open access 2013 – Evidence to HM Government BIS committee on open access 2014 – Evidence to review of implementation of RCUK policy on open access 2014 – consultation response – Science 2.0 (European Commission) 2017 – statement on research integrity 2018 – Research Culture project 2018 – Evidence Synthesis policy report

Publishing initiatives following #FSSC 2015 Introduced author contribution statements Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines signatory Introduced Registered Reports in Royal Society Open Science 2016 Mandatory open data in all journals (encouraged since 2009) – deposit charges paid First publisher to introduce an ORCID mandate for authors Statement encouraging authors to post preprints Introduced Publons for public recognition of peer reviewers 2017 Extended OPR to two more journals Mandatory Data Availability Statements for all articles Appointed a preprints editor for Proceedings B 2018 Launch of evidence synthesis article type in three journals OPR now on a fourth journal (mandatory on three) Co-initiated open letter (with ASAPbio) encouraging journals to adopt OPR Accountable replication policy (imminently)

ORCID iD

Statements

Data sharing

Data repositories

Open peer review

Preprints policy

New article types

Thank you! stuart.taylor@royalsociety.org