Project Library
Shifting the research lifecycle from the status quo of closed (red) to open (green) requires a comprehensive set of solutions involving policies, tools and practices. Each of these “solution spaces” include community initiatives that, in concert, offer innovative and practical methodologies that enable, incentivize, and reward open and collaborative research.
Community Projects
| Updated: 17 May 2024
AGORRA is a global observatory of responsible research assessment that aims to generate comparative data, evidence and analysis to support and accelerate the transformation across national assessment systems.
Research on Research Institute
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking
| Updated: 29 Oct 2022
One of three goals in AGU’s strategic plan is to lead in open science and open data; detailed guidelines, webinars, a help desk and data fair, aimed at AGU authors (but openly available to all), are designed to ensure that all scientific evidence is processed, shared, used ethically and fairly, and is available, preserved, and documented.
American Geophysical Union
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Communication, Publishing
| Updated: 22 Nov 2022
Arcadia Science is an R&D institute aspiring to evolve how science is done, who it attracts and rewards, and what it can achieve. Arcadia’s radical experiment in communication requires that all research must be freely accessible at an early stage and cannot be published in journals.
Arcadia Science
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Early Sharing, Publishing
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
A comprehensive report on how the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s research initiative has worked toward its goals of promoting OS and collaboration to date. It presents procedures, templates, and findings (metrics) on the approach since the project was launched in 2019 and is updated regularly.
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Home page | Project page (pdf)
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Metrics, Policy
| Updated: 17 Nov 2022
ASAP mandates OA for all publications of work that they fund, to facilitate the rapid and free exchange of scientific ideas and ensure that the research they fund to treat Parkinson’s disease can be leveraged for future discoveries.
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 4 Nov 2022
Encouraging the use of preprints for research outputs beyond the scope of a traditional article and appearing well in advance of any associated eventual journal publication; drawing attention to non-traditional formats such as early stage results, null findings and replications of published works.
ASAPbio
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| Updated: 19 Jun 2024
Astera is committed to accelerating scientific progress by tackling bottlenecks in scientific publishing and communication. The Open Science Fellowship supports experimentation with new technologies and processes to create transformative change in scientific dialogue and research collaboration.
Astera Institute
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Collaboration, Experimental Design, Technology
| Updated: 9 Jul 2024
Birdaro is a project to support leaders of open source software (OSS) projects as they consider scaling and plans for long term sustainability. It is funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and hosted by the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE).
Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Science of Team Science, Training
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Developing metrics, practices, and software for open source projects in community health; one goal is to identify all contributions made in this sphere and the organizations and individuals that make them; another to improve the transparency and actionability of open source tools.
Keywords:
Credits, Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
This toolkit includes templates, FAQs, documentation, and other items shared by COAPI members. Members share best practices in OA policy advocacy and implementation with each other by email, phone, and face-to-face meetings.
SPARC/Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates
| Updated: 23 May 2024
The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach (using Linked Data Notifications) to link research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services, such as overlay-journals and open peer review services.
Confederation of Open Access Repositories
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Collaboration, Peer Review, Preprints, Technology
| Updated: 29 Oct 2022
Tracking and evaluating the prevalence of members from different groups in open science initiatives; outputs produced by group members; participation across disciplines and areas; citation bias in different areas; social dynamics of OS systems, e.g., role of hierarchy; and barriers to accessing digital collections.
CREOS/MIT Libraries
Home page | Project page
| Updated: 11 Sep 2023
Crossref is an official digital object identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It is run by the Publishers International Linking Association Inc. (PILA)[2] and was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals.
Crossref
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Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 11 Sep 2023
This blogpost provides an overview of the specific ways that Crossref (along with organizations and initiatives like DataCite, ORCID, and ROR) helps U.S. federal agencies (and any other funder) meet critical aspects of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo’s recommendations.
Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
CURIOSS is a community that facilitates networking and collaboration between university-based and research institution Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs).
CURIOSS
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication
| Updated: 24 Jun 2024
The Data Citation Corpus is a trusted central aggregate of all data citations to further the understanding of data usage and advance meaningful data metrics.
Make Data Count
Keywords:
Best Practices, Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
The DataWorks! Prize recognizes the impactful role of data reuse on human health by recognizing and rewarding research teams who propose and execute innovative secondary analysis and data reuse.
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Trust in Science
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
The Digital Research Academy is a grassroots trainer network offering training with the goal of improving the quality of research.
The Digital Research Academy
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Training
| Updated: 24 Jun 2024
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open-access journals from around the world. It is driven by a growing community committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
IS4OA Denmark
Keywords:
Best Practices, Publishing
| Updated: 28 May 2024
The Discovery Stack/Discovery Curator (DSDC) Pilot will evaluate an estimated 50-100 immunology pre-prints with “peer improvement review” – reframing peer review as an opportunity to make papers better – while also quantifying a paper’s quality and impact through a transparent scoring system.
Solving for Science
Keywords:
Experimental Design, Peer Review, Preprints
| Updated: 21 May 2024
DocMaps is a community-endorsed framework for capturing valuable context about the processes used to create documents in a machine-readable way.
Knowledge Futures
Keywords:
Best Practices, Facilitation, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing, Templates
| Updated: 9 Dec 2022
An Editorial Facilitator who is a subject specialist convenes discussions with team members to review and interpret their findings in light of the latest published evidence; (s)he writes and continually updates a Living Narrative based on these discussions, citing team-reviewed incremental findings and posting openly for community review.
Keywords:
Collaboration, Early Sharing, Editorial, Rewards
| Updated: 21 Nov 2022
Starting in 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions but will publish all peer-reviewed papers on its website as Reviewed Preprints, including an eLife assessment and public reviews. Authors can respond and either revise/resubmit or declare it as the final Version of Record.
eLife Sciences Publication
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 21 Nov 2022
This project has developed a values-based open source implementation and assessment program, crucial to developing a trustworthy data analysis ecosystem. While building standardized, easily accessible epidemiological software tools, Epiverse will be applying this values-based framework to metrics gauging the initiative’s success.
Epiverse / data.org
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Keywords:
Credits, Early Sharing, Metrics, Technology
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
A global data analysis ecosystem creating standardized, accessible epidemiological software tools to solve real-world health problems. Three prongs include TRACE – the interoperable tools and software; BUILD – scaffolding for interdisciplinary engagement; and CONNECT – global community dedicated to innovation and health equity.
data.org
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Credits, Early Sharing, Metrics, Technology
| Updated: 20 May 2024
The Health Research Alliance’s (HRA) mission is to maximize the impact of research to improve human health, and open sharing of all research outputs is a powerful strategy to achieve that mission. The Explore the Value of Open (EVO) program is designed to help HRA members implement open science policies.
Health Research Alliance
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Best Practices, Policy, Templates
| Updated: 14 Aug 2023
The FAIR Island project is a unique opportunity to examine the impact of implementing optimal research data management policies and leverage existing research infrastructure at two real-world field stations – the Tetiaroa Ecostation and the Gump South Pacific Research station. Through this collaboration they have experimented with non-traditional use of research output management plans and more recently created project metadata and identifiers using existing DataCite infrastructure.
California Digital Library, DataCite, Tiaroa Society and Metadata Game Changers
Project Page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Policy
| Updated: 22 May 2024
The FLOES program is creating a scalable methodology for evaluating equity, diversity and inclusion in open science practices by embedding experimental design and measurements into existing open science systems. The intention is to seed a new generation of researchers focused on open scholarship.
Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS)
| Updated: 4 Nov 2022
Aiming to pilot a multi-team research initiative that utilizes many of the ICOR solutions to push the boundaries of open collaborative science. Starting with a traditionally funded project, additional support from progressive funders will permit tracking incremental costs, practices, and tools of “flipping to open.”
| Updated: 26 Jun 2024
Fostering Responsible Open Science in Europe (ROSiE) has developed and openly shared practical tools that ensure research ethics and research integrity in open science and citizen science.
Fostering Responsible Open Science in Europe (ROSiE)
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Best Practices, Templates, Training
| Updated: 24 Jun 2024
FORRT is a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and meta-scientific research.
FORRT
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Facilitation, Research on Research, Templates, Training
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Gates-funded researchers can publish their original content, including detailed methods and all source data, on this platform. All content is open access under a CC-BY license; peer review is fully transparent, as are authors’ revisions and ongoing updates.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Home page |. Project page
Keywords:
Editorial, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency and have adopted an Open Access policy that enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded, in whole or in part, by the foundation, including any underlying data sets.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Keywords:
Best Practices, Editorial, Policy, Preprints, Publishing
| Updated: 13 May 2024
The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) is a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative which has brought seven generalist repositories together into a collaborative working group focused on establishing “a common set of cohesive and consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure” and increasing awareness and adoption of the FAIR principles.
National Institutes of Health: Office of Data Science Strategy
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Facilitation, Policy, Templates
| Updated: 13 Sep 2023
The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) is a five-year longitudinal data collection and research collaboration between researchers at various institutions and provides a case example for improving rigor, reproducibility, and sharing with large datasets by requiring preregistration and open sharing of all research outcomes and outputs.
Baylor University, Harvard University, Gallup and the Center for Open Science
Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Early Sharing
| Updated: 16 May 2024
The need for coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) arises from the emergence of so called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons”, which provide a shared virtual space or platform that presents the researcher with a marketplace for data and services. the RDA is coordinating the work needed to realise a Global Open Research Commons (GORC) to enable a global network of interoperable data commons.
Research Data Alliance
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Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Facilitation
| Updated: 28 May 2024
GraspOS aims to develop, assess and operate an open and trusted federated infrastructure for next generation research metrics and indicators, offering data, tools, services and guidance to further extend the reach and influence of open science.
GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science
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Assessment/Evaluation, Monitoring/Tracking, Technology
| Updated: 16 May 2024
The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS Open) is a cohort of colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship within and across their campuses. Leaders from US colleges and universities have joined this community of practice, working together to promote a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem.
Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
| Updated: 14 Jun 2024
In 2023, HHMI began removing journal names from researcher assessment materials to make it clearer HHMI values the discovery not the journal. They created a citation style for Zotero and built a digital form for the bibliography to generate citations that replace journal names with PMIDs or dois.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Metrics
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
HuMetricsHSS is an initiative that creates and supports values-enacted frameworks for understanding and evaluating all aspects of the scholarly life well-lived and for promoting the nurturing of these values in scholarly practice.
HuMetricsHSS: Humane Metrics Initiative
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Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Credits, Incentives, Metrics, Trust in Science
| Updated: 20 May 2024
Infra Finder is an online tool designed to be the go-to resource for anyone navigating the complex landscape of infrastructure services and standards enabling open research and scholarship.
Invest in Open Infrastructure
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Collaboration, Facilitation, Technology
| Updated: 23 Jul 2024
The INspiring and ANchoring TrUst in Science (IANUS) project builds trust in science by fostering inclusive, value-driven research that actively involves societal stakeholders. By ensuring transparency and addressing societal needs, IANUS enhances reciprocal and informed trust in the scientific process.
INspiring and ANchoring TrUst in Science (IANUS)
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Communication, Policy, Research on Research, Trust in Science
| Updated: 15 May 2024
The Irish National Open Access Monitor is an innovative platform designed to promote and comprehend open access research and scholarly publishing within Ireland. The platform offers a range of features that allow for the customisation of monitoring, benchmarking, and evaluation, facilitating evidence-based decisions to advance Open Science initiatives.
Irish Research eLibrary (IReL)
Home page | Project page
| Updated: 6 Sep 2022
TWCF is launching its Open Research Program with a pilot transdisciplinary, global initiative – LLPW. ICOR will help develop methodologies, assets and incentives for collaborative open research, and will evaluate and document best practices based on the outcomes.
Templeton World Charity Foundation
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Policy
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
The More Than Our Rank initiative has been developed in response to some of the problematic features and effects of the global university rankings. It provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position.
More Than Our Rank
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Credits
| Updated: 23 Aug 2023
The National Information Standards Organization is a nonprofit membership organization that identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information.
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Home Page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Communication, Technology
| Updated: 22 Nov 2022
NGLP’s purpose is to improve open access publishing pathways for campus-based and nonprofit publishers by seeding an ecosystem of open infrastructures and mission-aligned service providers. Modular, interoperable OS components may be assembled to meet many publishing needs.
Educopia Institute
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Sample template for a deliberative approach by team members to assess and plan for key issues — e.g., collaboration rationale and readiness, inter- and intra-team communication, investigators’ technologies & resources, conflict management, budget issues, publication — that influence both scientific and collaborative success.
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Collaboration, Policy, Science of Team Science, Templates
| Updated: 15 May 2024
NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC) is a Japanese research infrastructure that complies with the FAIR principles and global open research standards. NII RDC consists of three core platforms, research data management (GakuNin RDM), data publishing (WEKO3) and knowledge discovery (CiNii research), which enables Japan to promote open science and data-driven research.
Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics
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Collaboration, Technology
| Updated: 14 Aug 2023
Null Hypothesis is a collaboration between leading biomedical journals, research institutions and research funders to get more non-positive results published and discoverable. This initiative represents a focused effort to shine light on dark data – null results that never get written up, published or made discoverable, and whose absence from the accessible body of knowledge can impact the interpretation of the scientific evidence.
Center for Biomedical Research Transparency
Home Page | Project Page
Keywords:
Communication, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 12 Sep 2023
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project running on open-source software to capture news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world. It’s the most comprehensive of OA-related news anywhere.
Harvard Open Access Project, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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Communication, Monitoring/Tracking, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 16 May 2024
The Open Climate Campaign is working with international organizations, funders, governments, environmental organizations, and open access advocates to endorse and communicate the campaign to lead to more open access climate and biodiversity research.
Open Climate Campaign
Home page
Keywords:
Communication, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 15 May 2024
The Open Discovery Innovation Network (ODIN) is a collaboration platform where industry and academia co-create open research projects relevant for drug discovery and diagnostics. The ambition is to use the collective knowledge of all the participating researchers and to create long-term innovation for the benefit of patients, industry and society.
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Collaboration, Facilitation, Rewards, Technology
| Updated: 22 Nov 2022
OLS develops and hosts virtual 16-week-long cohorts to train and mentor individuals and groups as advocates, with the aim of bringing collaborative OS to their communities. OLS also conducts research on the transformative impact of these activities and contributes Best Practice expert talks via YouTube (open license CC-BY).
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Communication, Facilitation, Training
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Developing templates that enable best open science practices and provide team members alternatives to inter-institutional agreements; documents are built around open science pillars, i.e., no restrictive IP, open sharing of all resources, and sharing credit through attribution and persistent digital identifiers.
Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI), McGill University
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Communication, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 12 Jun 2024
The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) brings together institutions and individuals involved in monitoring open science. OSMI aims to encourage the adoption of open science monitoring principles and to promote their practical implementation.
Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI)
| Updated: 15 May 2024
Since 2022 the Dutch government has made available substantial funding to support the transition to open science in the Netherlands. The aim of the investment is to make open science the norm. A budget of €20M a year is available for a period of 10 years (2022-2031). The Dutch Research Council (NWO) was asked to set up a dedicated organisational structure (a ‘regieorgaan’) to take responsibility for the allocation of these funds. After a period of intensive and constructive consultation with the field, Open Science NL was launched in March 2023 with the signing of a covenant by 16 organisations in the Netherlands, including the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Open Science NL will operate on the basis of two-year strategic cycles. Every two years, a work programme will be drawn up describing how the available budget will be spent and what funding instruments will be developed within that cycle. The starting points for the Open Science NL work programmes are the strategic goals and objectives formulated in the Dutch National Programme Open Science (NPOS) 2030 Ambition Document and Rolling Agenda.
NWO – Dutch Research Council
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Facilitation, Incentives, Policy
| Updated: 13 Sep 2023
The Open Science Team Agreement gives researchers and other stakeholders the tools they need to understand and advocate for open science practices at a broader scale-within their laboratory, department, or the broader community.
Bay Area Open Science Group
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Collaboration, Communication, Incentives, Templates
| Updated: 4 Jun 2024
Open Science to Increase Reproducibility In Science (OSIRIS) aims to facilitate a paradigm and culture shift to reform the research and innovation system by systematically gathering knowledge on the underlying drivers, testing effective evidence-based solutions, identifying incentives for reproducibility by stakeholders, and embedding reproducibility in research design.
OSIRIS
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Best Practices, Collaboration, Experimental Design, Facilitation
| Updated: 14 Sep 2023
This guide is aimed at graduate and doctoral students, and early-career researchers from all disciplines at Dutch universities and research institutes. It is designed to accompany them in every step of their research lifecycle process. Every chapter provides researchers with the best tools and practices to implement immediately.
The Dutch consortium of University Libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands (UKB), the Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch National Centre of Expertise and Repository for Research Data (DANS) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Publishing, Training
| Updated: 24 Aug 2024
Openscapes is a movement and approach that promotes open, inclusive practices in research, particularly in the fields of environmental and earth sciences. We provide structures for technical skill-building, collaborative teamwork, and inclusive community development.
Openscapes
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Collaboration, Facilitation, Technology, Training
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Created to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values, highlighting the continuum that exists between fully open and fully closed policies. Categories include article access, data/code access, reuse, costs, and compliance.
Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 16 Nov 2022
A stepwise approach – including policy guidelines, implementation, and engagement – for funders to adjust their incentivization schemes to align with open access, open data, open science, and open research. Includes templated language with highlighted passages for inserting customized funder information.
Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Credits, Incentives, Policy, Rewards
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
Designed to make policy development easy for funders, includes sample language for policies covering a range of scholarly outputs and sharing practices. Funders can identify the plug-and-play language that best fits their needs and incorporate it into their policies with minimal changes.
Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates
| Updated: 29 May 2024
OSTrails aims to advance processes and instruments for Planning, Tracking, and Assessing scientific knowledge production beyond state-of-the art, working with various national and thematic contexts, improving existing infrastructure, and connecting key components.
OSTrails
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Best Practices, Early Sharing, Monitoring/Tracking, Training
| Updated: 20 May 2024
PathOS is a Horizon Europe project aimed at better understanding and measuring of Open Science impacts and their causal mechanisms. The project will collect concrete evidence of Open Science effects, study the pathways of Open Science practices, from input to output, outcome and impact, including the consideration of enabling factors and key barriers.
PathOS
| Updated: 11 Sep 2023
This resources includes four expansive diagrams, each of which is intended to showcase a possible future, in which persistent identifiers (PIDs) are used throughout the research lifecycle to enable automation, efficiency, new discovery tools, and analysis. The act of including PIDs throughout supports greater transparency and reproducibility in research activities and communications.
MoreBrains
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Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Templates
| Updated: 7 Jun 2024
PATTERN promotes the practice of Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) by developing and piloting training activities for researchers at all stages of their careers.
PATTERN
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Best Practices, Templates, Training
| Updated: 14 May 2024
The OSI initiative aims to better understand researchers and to inform the development and monitoring of solutions intended to improve adoption of Open Science practices, such as sharing of research data, sharing code and protocols, and posting of preprints.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Credits, Incentives, Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking
| Updated: 15 May 2024
PREreview designs and develops open-source infrastructure to enable community-led feedback to preprints at a point in time in which it is needed, offers peer review training and mentorship, and partners with like-minded organizations to create opportunities for collaborative review experiences.
PREreview
Home page
Keywords:
Collaboration, Peer Review, Preprints, Training
| Updated: 15 May 2024
The Open Reviewers Toolkit comprises of a series of guides to help with the socially-conscious and constructive composition and assessment of research manuscripts and grants proposals. All resources are published on Zenodo, and we are in the process of translating them into several languages.
PREreview
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Peer Review, Training
| Updated: 21 May 2024
PubPub is an open-source, community-led, end-to-end publishing platform for knowledge communities that provides infrastructure for each part of the publishing process, from drafting documents, conducting peer review, and hosting entire journal and book websites to collecting and displaying reader feedback and analytics.
Knowledge Futures
Keywords:
Editorial, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 24 Aug 2024
pyOpenSci supports the development and use of scientific Python tools that drive open science through peer review, training and community building.
pyOpenSci
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Collaboration, Peer Review, Technology, Training
| Updated: 22 Nov 2022
Developing metrics that reflect team members’ collaborative research activities – e.g., sharing/posting early research, reviewing, revising, commenting – as well as the rapid, open dissemination of their findings.
Rapid Science
Home page | Project page
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Collaboration, Credits, Metrics, Rewards
| Updated: 21 May 2024
Registered Reports is a publishing format that emphasizes the importance of the research question and the quality of methodology by conducting peer review prior to data collection. High quality protocols are then provisionally accepted for publication upon completion of research.
Center of Open Science
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Best Practices, Incentives, Peer Review, Policy, Rewards
| Updated: 8 Sep 2023
ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. ROR makes it easy for anyone or any system to disambiguate institution names and connect research organizations to researchers and research outputs.
California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite
Project Page
Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking
| Updated: 4 Nov 2022
As more research outputs are shared, a common schema and nomenclature will improve discoverability and reproducibility, increase resuse, and enable meta-analyses. All outputs need categorization, tagging, adequate metadata, and persistent idenfitiers.
Keywords:
Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology
| Updated: 12 Sep 2023
ResearchEquals is an open access publishing platform sharing the research process step by step, diversifying primary outputs to include text, data, code, audio, and more. By doing so, all research work can be made public, with a DOI, to be able to get it recognized and rewarded.
Liberate Science GmbH
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Communication, Early Sharing, Preprints, Publishing, Training
| Updated: 21 May 2024
Review Commons is a platform for high-quality journal-independent peer review in the life sciences. Review Commons empowers authors by providing them with a Refereed Preprint and facilitating its submission to affiliate journals.
EMBO
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Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| Updated: 13 May 2024
Road2Openness is a web-based self-assessment tool that helps research performing institutions to evaluate their current Open Science activities and supports them with recommendations for a strategic opening to develop institutional training, infrastructure and incentive systems for Open Science.
Road2Openess
| Updated: 27 Jul 2023
The Discourse Graph extension enables Roam users to seamlessly add additional semantic structure to their notes, including specified page types and link types that model scientific discourse, to enable more complex and structured knowledge synthesis work, such as a complex interdisciplinary literature review, and enhanced collaboration with others on this work.
University of Washington
Home Page | Project Page
Keywords:
Collaboration, Communication, Technology
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
Science Colab is a collaboration of research scientists whose mission is to develop an equitable, inclusive, and transparent environment to add rigour to the scientific literature in a way that supports and benefits the community.
Science Colab
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Early Sharing, Editorial, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| Updated: 22 Nov 2022
A system for posting peer reviews of preprints on bioRxiv. By opting for Preprint Review, an author can have reviews of their preprint posted on bioRxiv and, at the same time, be considered for publication in eLife.
eLife Sciences Publications
Home page | Project page
Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| Updated: 29 May 2024
SciLake increases discoverability and reproducibility of open scientific content through the creation of scientific/scholarly knowledge graphs (SKGs) and the implementation of technologies to support data science and graph mining queries.
SciLake
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Facilitation, Monitoring/Tracking, Technology
| Updated: 23 Aug 2023
SPORR is an NIH-funded program for promoting and implementing best practices in research rigor and reproducibility. The goal is to provide education, training, and resources in principles and tools that optimize efficiency, validity, and reproducibility. For instance, they’ve created templates for CVs and data management plans, and researchers are rewarded for innovations such as an open source lab manual of best practices for reproducibility of computational workflows.
Stanford Medicine
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Collaboration, Incentives, Metrics, Training
| Updated: 4 Nov 2022
Devoted to accelerating the pace of discovery and informing the path to a cure for Parkinson’s disease through collaboration, research-enabling resources, and data sharing. ASAP is formulating ground-breaking policies, tools, and practices to guide researchers toward early sharing, communication, and open publication.
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Collaboration, Incentives, Policy, Rewards
| Updated: 20 May 2024
The 5% Manifesto is a campaign devised by the Hidden REF committee to encourage UK Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to commit to at least 5% of their REF 2028 submission, being composed of non-traditional outputs.
The hidden REF
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Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Incentives, Rewards
| Updated: 21 May 2024
The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) project develops coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers at Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up Open Science practices.
Open and Universal Science (OPUS)
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Assessment/Evaluation, Incentives, Rewards
| Updated: 29 Oct 2022
Open source, community-built handbook created in GitHub with continual additions/revisions, covering reproducible research, project design, communication, collaboration, ethical research and guidelines for contributors; stakeholders are encouraged to use the guide to understand their roles and responsibilities in data science.
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Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Training
| Updated: 12 Sep 2023
The WorldFAIR project sets out to produce recommendations, interoperability frameworks and guidelines for FAIR data assessment.
A Collaborative effort undertaken by CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Science Council) and RDA (the Research Data Alliance) who are leading the effort, and the European Commission-EU is funding this project.
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Best Practices, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 29 May 2024
TIER2 aims to boost knowledge, create tools, engage communities, co-create interventions and develop policy recommendations on different contexts to increase re-use and overall quality of research results.
TIER 2
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Best Practices, Experimental Design, Policy, Research on Research
| Updated: 23 Aug 2024
The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative facilitates collaborative capacity building and investigates the practice of collaborative research, including team science, with an emphasis on understanding cross-disciplinarity and knowledge production.
Toolbox Dialogue Initiative
| Updated: 21 Nov 2022
Providing practical alternatives to publishing metrics as the primary means of adjudicating scientists’ careers; supporting the hiring, promotion, retention, and funding of scientists committed to open and collaborative research.
Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
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Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Rewards
| Updated: 16 May 2024
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA) is a project to facilitate the development of new policies and practices for academic career assessment.
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
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Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Incentives, Metrics, Policy, Rewards
| Updated: 21 May 2024
TOP Factor is an assessment of a scientific journal’s policies based on the framework provided by the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. TOP Factor is a more ideal means to evaluate journal quality because it is based on practices that are fundamental to the conduct of science.
Center of Open Science
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Best Practices, Incentives, Peer Review, Policy
| Updated: 21 May 2024
The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines is a set of 8 policy recommendations to increase the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research for journals and funders. Each of the policies can be implemented independently and can be adopted in one of three levels of increased rigor: Disclosure, Requirement, or Verification.
Center of Open Science
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Best Practices, Incentives, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
TWCF’s OA policy commenced in 2021 to ensure that knowledge and discoveries resulting from their funding maximizes their benefit. With a global mandate to support projects wherever they can have the greatest impact, it is crucial that all outputs are openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
Templeton World Charity Foundation
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Best Practices, Communication, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 11 Sep 2023
The United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Open Access Policy aims to ensure that findings from research UKRI funds with public money can be accessed and built on by the research and innovation community and wider society.
UKRI
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Best Practices, Incentives, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 13 May 2024
The UNESCO Open Science Toolkit is designed to support implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The Toolkit is a set of guides, policy briefs, factsheets and indexes. Each piece is a living resource updated to reflect new developments and the status of implementation of the Recommendation. Elements of this toolkit are developed in collaboration with UNESCO Open Science partners or through discussions with and inputs from the members of the UNESCO Working Groups on Open Science.
UNESCO
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Best Practices, Facilitation, Policy, Training
| Updated: 13 May 2024
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science is the first international standard setting instrument on open science. It provides an internationally agreed definition, as well as a set of shared values and guiding principles for open science. It also identifies a set of actions conducive to a fair and equitable operationalization of open science for all at the individual, institutional, national, regional and international levels. Its implementation is supported by the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit.
UNESCO
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Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Facilitation, Policy, Templates, Training