Evidence & Best Practices

Building a body of evidence and case studies as the community implements and evaluates research projects involving tools and practices that are collaborative and open; from these learnings, creating and promoting a manual of best practices that are interoperable, reusable, and sustainable.

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Goals

Develop a community of open science advocates who are creating or using the tools, practices and assessment of open and collaborative science.
Connect projects working on common infrastructures, processes and metrics for advancing their goals.
Curate a guide to best practices, identifying relevant resources curated for researchers, funders, and academic institutions.
Consult on projects’ experimental design to create a body of evidence and case studies regarding the impact of open science.
Promote widespread use of best practices and demonstrate how they can translate to incentives and rewards for collaborative open research.

Community Projects

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AGU Data & Software Sharing Guidance

Mature

| Updated: 29 Oct 2022

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

American Geophysical Union
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Communication, Publishing

CREOS: Research on Open & Equitable Scholarship

In progress

| Updated: 29 Oct 2022

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

CREOS/MIT Libraries
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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Experimental Design, Monitoring/Tracking, Research on Research

Crossref

Mature

| Updated: 11 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Crossref

Home Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology

Crossref: How Funding Agencies Can Meet OSTP (and Open Science) Guidance Using Existing Open Infrastructure

Launched

| Updated: 11 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Croessref

Home Page | Blogpost

Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology

Global Flourishing Study

In progress

| Updated: 13 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Baylor University, Harvard University, Gallup and the Center for Open Science

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Early Sharing

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Mature

| Updated: 23 Aug 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

The National Information Standards Organization is a nonprofit membership organization that identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information.

Organization:

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
Home Page

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Communication, Technology

Null Hypothesis

Launched

| Updated: 14 Aug 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Center for Biomedical Research Transparency
Home Page | Project Page

Keywords:
Communication, Publishing, Technology

Open Life Science: Research, Training & Mentoring

In progress

| Updated: 22 Nov 2022

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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).

Organization:

Open Life Science

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Communication, Facilitation, Training

Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers

Launched

| Updated: 14 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

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).

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Publishing, Training

PID Optimized Workflows

Mature

| Updated: 11 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

MoreBrains

Home Page | Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Templates