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
Home page | Project page

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

Exploring the Value of “Open” (EVO)

Launched

| Updated: 20 May 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Health Research Alliance

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Policy, Templates

Fellows and Leaders in Open and Equitable Scholarship (FLOES) program

Proposed/Seeking funding

| Updated: 22 May 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS)

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Experimental Design, Facilitation, Incentives, Research on Research

Fostering Responsible Open Science in Europe (ROSiE)

Mature

| Updated: 26 Jun 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Fostering Responsible Open Science in Europe (ROSiE)

Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Templates, Training

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

Inspiring and Anchoring Trust in Science (IANUS)

In progress

| Updated: 23 Jul 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

INspiring and ANchoring TrUst in Science (IANUS)

Project page

Keywords:
Communication, Policy, Research on Research, Trust in Science

Irish National Open Access Monitor

In progress

| Updated: 15 May 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Irish Research eLibrary (IReL)
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking, Technology

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 to Increase Reproducibility In Science (OSIRIS)

In progress

| Updated: 4 Jun 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

OSIRIS

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Experimental Design, Facilitation

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

PathOS

Launched

| Updated: 20 May 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

PathOS

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Experimental Design, Research on Research

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

Piloting open and responsible Activities and Trainings Towards the Enhancement of Researchers Networks (PATTERN)

In progress

| Updated: 7 Jun 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

PATTERN

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Templates, Training

Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Mature

| Updated: 8 Sep 2023

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite
Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Monitoring/Tracking

Road2Openness

Mature

| Updated: 13 May 2024

Solution: Evidence & Best Practices

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.

Organization:

Road2Openess

Homepage

Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Incentives, Monitoring/Tracking, Policy, Technology, Templates