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: 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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| 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.
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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)
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Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates
| 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
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| 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.
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Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology
| 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.
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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
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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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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
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Credits, Early Sharing, Metrics, Technology
| 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
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Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Policy
| 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: 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
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Editorial, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing
| Updated: 6 Nov 2022
This policy is based on the belief that published research should be promptly and broadly disseminated. It enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded, in whole or in part, by the Gates Foundation, including any underlying data sets.
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Best Practices, Editorial, Policy, Publishing
| 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
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Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Early Sharing
| 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
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Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Policy
| 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)
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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
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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: 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
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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: 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).
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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
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Communication, Publishing, Technology
| 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: 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).
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Best Practices, Communication, Publishing, 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)
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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)
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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)
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Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates
| 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: 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
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Collaboration, Credits, Metrics, 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
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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.
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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: 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
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Collaboration, Communication, Technology
| 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
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Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing
| 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: 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: 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: 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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Keywords:
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