1. Open Transportation Research
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Open Transportation Research
How opening up your research can help everybody.
2010 National RAC Meeting, July 28, 2010, Kansas City, MO
Kendra K. Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies Library

2. Open Access: Make an impact.
 For the basics of Open Access Publshing, check out Wikipedia:
A directory of OA Engineering Journals:
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Open Access: Make an impact.

3. Open Data: Share the Wealth
For open data:
A good blog for Open Science stuff:
Panton Principles for Open Data in Science: 
Of course, Data.Gov
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Open Data: Share the Wealth

4. Open Research: Transparency all (most) of the way
Wikipedia knows:
UsefulChem Project:
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Open Research: Transparency all (most) of the way

5. How open is Transportation?
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How open is Transportation?

6. Physics - How do they share?
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Physics - How do they share?

7. http://arxiv. org from Cornell hosts all the physics grey literature
from Cornell hosts all the physics grey literature. Open Access.
arXiv.org

8. Chemistry - How do they do it?
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Chemistry - How do they do it?

9. Open Notebook Open Notebook:
Jean-Claude Bradley at Drexel: 
Open Notebook

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Astronomy?

11. Let the data hang out. Google's Directory:
David W. Hogg of NYU:  
Let the data hang out.

12. What can Transportation do?
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What can Transportation do?

13. Open Access - IRs, get into TRIS
Check out this report:
Lots of State DOTs and UTCs put their research papers online for the world to enjoy for free. Encourage TRB and others to adopt similar models.
IR=Institutional Repository
Open Access - IRs, get into TRIS

14. Research wikis, communities of practice
ITSWorld on ning:
TRB Visualization committee: 
UWCFIRE:
TransportationResearch.Gov
Research wikis, communities of practice

15. Share your data! TranStats: http://www.transtats.bts.gov/about.asp
CATT Lab from UMD:
PeMS:
PORTAL:
The ADUS program from FHWA:
Please make it accessible. No PDFs! CSV or XLS please.
Share your data!

16. Thanks! http://bit.ly/opentr
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Thanks!
Kendra K. Levine - ITS Library |