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6 Accelerating Progress to Open Science by Design
6 Accelerating Progress to Open Science by Design
Pages 149-160
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For example, the ability to automate the process of searching and analyzing linked articles and data can reveal patterns that would escape human perception, making the process of generating and testing hypotheses faster and more efficient. These tools and services will have maximum impact when used within an open science ecosystem that spans institutional, national, and disciplinary boundaries.
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. The report also suggests, "by committing to a set of shared principles and minimal levels of standardization across institutions and agencies, we can help minimize costs, enhance interoperability between institutions and disciplines, and maximize the control institutions can exert over how they ensure access to publicly funded scholarship" (AAU-APLU, 2017, p.
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Significant barriers to wider and quicker adoption of open practices include the incentives and underlying cultural assumptions that operate in many fields. The specific ways in which cultural barriers to open science operate vary significantly by field or discipline.
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Recommendation One Research institutions should work to create a culture that actively supports Open Science by Design by better rewarding and supporting researchers engaged in open science practices. Research funders should provide explicit and consistent support for practices and approaches that facilitate this shift in culture and incentives.
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• Researchers should make full use of the many opportunities that are availa ble for making their research products openly available, and they should include that information in their curriculum vitae so that they can be appro priately credited and rewarded. • In fields where this is not already common practice, research funders should encourage and reward the use of data and other research products that are available in publicly accessible databases.
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• Research funders should support the development of training programs in the principles and practices of open science by design. Federal agencies should require this training as part of all federally funded graduate training grants (e.g., NSF research traineeships and NIH training grants)
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• Public access to data and scientific collections created with federal support is required by federal agencies but the infrastructure and funding to store; curate; and preserve data, code, samples, and other research products are not necessarily available. • Although some of the technical and cost barriers to large-scale data storage are falling, the outputs of research continue to grow in volume and com plexity, meaning that significant additional resources will still be required.
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• Private research funders who have not already done so should adopt ap proaches compatible with those developed for publicly funded research products planning, management, reporting, and stewardship. • Researchers should describe the plan for dissemination and stewardship of their research products with some specificity, consistent with the standard ized sponsor requirements described above, including where their research products will be made publicly available and for what period of time.
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Such tools are in development, but that development is impeded by the lack of ready access to the entire corpus of published scientific research by tool developers. • Open access publications are legally available for all, although not all open access publishers make their content readily available for bulk transfer to tool developers or users of text and data mining tools.
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• Researchers and research funders should require that research products des ignated for long-term preservation and stewardship are assigned persistent unique digital identifiers. • Professional societies and research funders should support efforts to net work and federate existing repositories for improved discoverability.
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The research enterprise is at an important point in the transition to open science, where research sponsors, both public and private, have an opportunity to shape the future through their investments. Findings • Significant progress in open science practices has been made in recent years, but the majority of research products are not open, and very little research output meets the FAIR guidelines.
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• Funders, institutions, and researchers should align policies and incentives to realize open publication, including rights-retention provisions. • Research funders should support the establishment of a consortium of re search community stakeholders to develop additional concrete methods for implementing open science by design.
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