Best Practices for Collaborative & Open Research
Goals
- Encourage and promote the wide adoption of an open and collaborative research culture by curating policy guidelines, case studies, open-source tools, templates and the means for assessment
- Create and continually update guidelines based on new technologies and learnings to provide funders and institutions a clear path toward sponsoring, recognizing, incentivizing, and rewarding open and collaborative
Champions
ICOR Strategists and Supporters
Deliverables
- A guide to the tools, and processes of open and collaborative science, with specific resources curated for researchers, funders, and academic institutions
- Templates to assist stakeholders in implementing these best practices or subsets therein
- Data and case studies of collaborations that have employed elements of these strategies, with a focus on practical advice on the successes and challenges
What’s Needed
- Involvement of stakeholders (including both allies and sceptics) to develop and iterate the framework for communication strategies
- Team of open science advocates to curate links and descriptions of tools and templates needed to implement best practices
- Case studies from funders and collaborative teams that provide evidence supporting or challenging these strategies
- Funded research teams willing to implement the framework and a subset of best practices
- Assessment expertise to report on behaviors and impact of teams implementing these and other strategies to provide evidence and inform the evolution of these approaches
Links
- Project plan for Communication Strategies for Effective Collaborations: A best practices framework
- Vogel Chapter – Comprehensive Collaboration Plans: Practical Considerations Spanning Across Individual Collaborators to Institutional Supports
- Sample Partnering Agreement Template: Questions for Scientific Collaborators, Office of the NH Ombudsman
- Harvard Business Review Article Sustained Collaboration
- Case Study: 2020 SFARI Collaboration on Sex Differences in Autism (Simon’s Foundations new funding mechanism that provides support to multidisciplinary teams of investigators)
- Open Science Agreements from Dylan Roskams-Edris (focused on Canadian science)
- Assessing the Value of Team Science A Study Comparing Center- and Investigator-Initiated Grants