Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

There is much to be learned from initiatives that are built to be collaborative and open from the start, or later as the research progresses. ICOR will collect, log, and share evidence on policies, practices, and implementations that are working, as well as how being open by design impacts culture, incentives, and rewards.

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Track and learn from large-scale research initiatives that involve open research on multiple levels.
For initiatives that weren’t originally funded as open, analyze the costs of ‘flipping to open’ with additional support.
Set up experimental designs and/or extract evidence from existing experiments to analyze performance measures and scalability.
Perform analyses across different large-scale implementations to derive new best practices, policies, and the potential for shared open infrastructures and services.

Community Projects

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

Astera Institute Open Science Fellowship

Launched

| Updated: 19 Jun 2024

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

Astera is committed to accelerating scientific progress by tackling bottlenecks in scientific publishing and communication. The Open Science Fellowship supports experimentation with new technologies and processes to create transformative change in scientific dialogue and research collaboration.

Organization:

Astera Institute

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Experimental Design, Technology

Fair Island Project

Launched

| Updated: 14 Aug 2023

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

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.

Organization:

California Digital Library, DataCite, Tiaroa Society and Metadata Game Changers
Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Policy

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

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
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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Policy

NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC)

Launched

| Updated: 15 May 2024

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC) is a Japanese research infrastructure that complies with the FAIR principles and global open research standards. NII RDC consists of three core platforms, research data management (GakuNin RDM), data publishing (WEKO3) and knowledge discovery (CiNii research), which enables Japan to promote open science and data-driven research.

Organization:

Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Technology

Open Science NL

Launched

| Updated: 15 May 2024

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

Since 2022 the Dutch government has made available substantial funding to support the transition to open science in the Netherlands. The aim of the investment is to make open science the norm. A budget of €20M a year is available for a period of 10 years (2022-2031). The Dutch Research Council (NWO) was asked to set up a dedicated organisational structure (a ‘regieorgaan’) to take responsibility for the allocation of these funds. After a period of intensive and constructive consultation with the field, Open Science NL was launched in March 2023 with the signing of a covenant by 16 organisations in the Netherlands, including the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Open Science NL will operate on the basis of two-year strategic cycles. Every two years, a work programme will be drawn up describing how the available budget will be spent and what funding instruments will be developed within that cycle. The starting points for the Open Science NL work programmes are the strategic goals and objectives formulated in the Dutch National Programme Open Science (NPOS) 2030 Ambition Document and Rolling Agenda.

Organization:

NWO – Dutch Research Council
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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Facilitation, Incentives, Policy

PubPub

Mature

| Updated: 21 May 2024

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

PubPub is an open-source, community-led, end-to-end publishing platform for knowledge communities that provides infrastructure for each part of the publishing process, from drafting documents, conducting peer review, and hosting entire journal and book websites to collecting and displaying reader feedback and analytics.

Organization:

Knowledge Futures

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Editorial, Peer Review, Preprints, Publishing, Technology

pyOpenSci

Mature

| Updated: 24 Aug 2024

Solution: Open by Design: Large-Scale Implementation

pyOpenSci supports the development and use of scientific Python tools that drive open science through peer review, training and community building.

Organization:

pyOpenSci

Project Page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Peer Review, Technology, Training

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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