1.9 Recognizing the diversity of Open Science Practices across different research communities
- Mar 2023
- Claartje Chajes
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Dr. Evgeny Bobrov , Maaike Duine , Dr. Maxi Kindling, Dr. Jan Taubitz
Open-Access-Büro Berlin
Acknowledging Open Science activities is an important part of reforming research assessment. However, due to the difference in Open Science uptake and variety in OS Practices across disciplines and communities, developing meaningful and trustworthy indicators to acknowledge and monitor these activities is not that straightforward. Many OS Monitoring activities have been focusing on Open Access Article Publishing but OS practices extend beyond that. Open preprints, code and research data have become more prevalent in some disciplines, whereas Citizen Science and Public Engagement are increasingly important in other domains. To enable new insights, create incentives and to understand the adoption of OS Practices over time, monitoring the diversity of these OS practices is crucial. Meaningful and trustworthy discipline-specific OS indicators should be developed to recognize the quality and impact of OS practices.In this workshop, we would like to discuss the development of trustworthy and meaningful Open Science indicators. How can we ensure the diversity of OS Research Practices across different disciplines and communities are recognized and valued? How can we ensure that the Open Science indicators we use to monitor the OS practices will not be used inappropriately and that Open Science is promoted as a positive research culture?
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Here you can read a summary from this workshop (with thanks to the reporter for making it):
Maaike presented the project ‘Open Science Dashboard’, that she works on on behalf of the Open Access Büro Berlin, located at the Freie Universität Berlin. The project ends in September, but the organizers are looking for a follow up. Monitoring is needed for Open Science practices across different disciplines to measure progress. The objective of the project is to develop dashboard with different types of indicators for different disciplines, so it becomes easier to broaden the perspective on research outputs. The development of a dashboard has not been without challenges (finding project partners, lack of awareness, defining research fields of scientific disciplines, lack of data available, quality of available data, time constraints, developing qualitative indicators).
In groups, the participants discussed some national and international examples of Open Science dashboards, from the European Open Science monitor to the French Open Science monitor. In the end, participants shared their first impressions on the different monitors and found that there are many challenges to thoroughly monitoring Open Science practices. It is hopeful to see that Open Science is increasingly becoming the norm, but we should be wary to only measure outputs and find ways to incorporate more qualitative elements. Ultimately, the dashboard should just be a tool to support Open Science policy, not a goal in and of itself.
What are the main take aways of this session?
We need to think about the openness of an entire scientific project. Each project is different, and scientist should be rewarded for openness in every part of the project.
@gwarnan, @alexrushforth, @annemariependers, @alastairdunning, @maxd, @adriancohen, @bawanamin, after reading the report, I got curious about what conditions you need to create the aimed openness. Could one of you maybe share an insight?
Thanks again to the workshop participants for their input in the discussions. I've written a blog post with some take-aways from the festival and workshop. Please let me know in case you have any questions and/or comments. Thanks!