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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.

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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

Arcadia Science Initiative
In progress

| Updated: 22 Nov 2022

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

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.

Organization:

Arcadia Science
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Early Sharing, Publishing

ASAP Blueprint for Collaborative Open Science
In progress

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Research Output & Contributorship Management

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.

Organization:

Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Home page  |  Project page (pdf)

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Metrics, Policy

ASAP Open Access Policy
Launched

| Updated: 17 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP)
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Policy, Publishing

ASAPbio Preprints in Progress
In progress

| Updated: 4 Nov 2022

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

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.

Organization:

ASAPbio
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing

CHAOSS: Community Health Analytics Open Source Software
In progress

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Metrics that Credit All Contributions

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.

Organization:

CHAOSS/Linux Foundation

Keywords:
Credits, Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking

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COAPI Toolkit of Open Access Policy Resources
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

SPARC/Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates

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
Home page | Project page

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

Editorial Facilitation & Communication of Team Research
Planning

| Updated: 9 Dec 2022

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

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.

Organization:

Rapid Science

Keywords:
Collaboration, Early Sharing, Editorial, Rewards

eLife’s New Publishing Model
Launched

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Solution: Preprints & Incremental Sharing

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.

Organization:

eLife Sciences Publication
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing

Epiverse Values-Based Approach to Open Source Ecosystems
In progress

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Solution: Metrics that Credit All Contributions

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.

Organization:

Epiverse / data.org
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Credits, Early Sharing, Metrics, Technology

Epiverse: The Global Epidemic Response of the Future
In progress

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Metrics that Credit All Contributions

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.

Organization:

data.org
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Credits, Early Sharing, Metrics, Technology

Flip to Open: Tracking the Practices, Costs, and Culture of Open Collaborative Research
Planning

| Updated: 4 Nov 2022

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

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.”

Organization:

Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC)

Keywords:
Facilitation, Monitoring/Tracking, Research on Research, Technology

Gates Foundation Open Research Platform
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Home page  |. Project page

Keywords:
Editorial, Peer Review, Policy, Publishing

Gates Foundation: Open Access Policy
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Keywords:
Best Practices, Editorial, Policy, Publishing

Listening and Learning in a Polarized World (LLPW)
Launched

| Updated: 6 Sep 2022

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

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.

Organization:

Templeton World Charity Foundation
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Policy

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Next Generation Library Publishing
Mature

| Updated: 22 Nov 2022

Solution: Open Access Publishing

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.

Organization:

Educopia Institute
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Publishing, Technology

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NIH Partnering Agreement Template
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

NIH Office of the Ombudsman

Keywords:
Collaboration, Policy, Science of Team Science, Templates

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

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Open Science Agreements Toolkit (OSAT)
In progress

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI), McGill University
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Communication, Publishing, Technology

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ORFG HowOpenIsIt? Guide
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page

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

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ORFG Incentivization Blueprint
Launched

| Updated: 16 Nov 2022

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

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.

Organization:

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Credits, Incentives, Policy, Rewards

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ORFG Open Scholarship Policy Clause Bank
Mature

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Publishing, Templates

Rapid Science: The Collaboration Score
Planning

| Updated: 22 Nov 2022

Solution: Metrics that Credit All Contributions

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.

Organization:

Rapid Science
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Credits, Metrics, Rewards

Research Output Management System (ROMS)
In progress

| Updated: 4 Nov 2022

Solution: Research Output & Contributorship Management

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.

Organization:

Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)

Keywords:
Metrics, Monitoring/Tracking, Publishing, Technology

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Sciety eLife Preprint Review
Mature

| Updated: 22 Nov 2022

Solution: Reviewing All Research Outputs

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.

Organization:

eLife Sciences Publications
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Early Sharing, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing

yes

The ASAP Initiative
In progress

| Updated: 4 Nov 2022

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

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.

Organization:

Aligning Science Across Parkinsons

Keywords:
Collaboration, Incentives, Policy, Rewards

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The Turing Way Handbook to Reproducible, Ethical & Collaborative Data Science
Launched

| Updated: 29 Oct 2022

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Alan Turing Institute

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Training

Toolkit of Incentives & Rewards for Open Collaborative Research
Planning

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

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.

Organization:

Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Rewards

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TWCF Open Access Policy
Launched

| Updated: 6 Nov 2022

Solution: Policies & Agreements

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.

Organization:

Templeton World Charity Foundation
Home page  |  Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Communication, Policy, Publishing