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2 Adopting and Utilizing a Toolkit for Open Science: Stakeholder Perspectives
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... UNIVERSITY PERSPECTIVES During this session, speakers provided a university perspective related to fostering open science practices. Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University (ASU)
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... This shift, which is particularly critical at the leadership level, may also require broadening of funding sources to more nontraditional funders. Philip Bourne, founding dean of the University of Virginia School of Data Science, described the need for more flexibility among organizational types to achieve open science, noting three entry points (bottom up, middle, and top down)
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... For example, several participants noted that they were postdocs prior to their current faculty positions; open science initiatives were not available to them as postdocs. Additionally, Thomas noted that initial results indicated that BIPOC faculty tended to be excluded from collaborative networks that received grant funding, particularly federal grant funding, where policies were supportive of open science practices.
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... The field is strongly aligned with open science; sharing coded data, problem sets, and publications is a norm in the field, although it is not always necessarily articulated as open science or open scholarship. With a strong foundation in openness, linguists share knowledge, training, and tools, including, for example, through the LSA's hub as well as at its annual meetings and training seminars.
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... Embracing openness and the need for culture change is essential to moving forward, she added. Sanjay Srivastava, professor and undergraduate education chair of the University of Oregon Department of Psychology, began by noting that the movement toward openness in psychology was initially motivated by concerns about the inability to replicate research; lack of transparency in research methods made it difficult to fully evaluate the evidence.
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... ASAP's collaborative research network, one of the organization's key funding initiatives, brings together multiple disciplines, institutions, career stages, and geographies, while aiming to foster collaboration across teams early in the research process. Open science and research transparency are key requirements in receiving funding from ASAP, Riley noted.
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... Lowndes described the Ocean Health Index,3 a program designed to measure ocean health from a global to local scale at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A 2017 publication summarized the program's efforts to move toward open data science approaches (Lowndes et al., 2017)
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... a movement, where empowering leaders and champions is valued along with individual skills.4 She then described the Openscapes Champions mentorship program offered to research teams. It is a remote-by-design and cohort-based program, enabling community building across research teams and universities (Lowndes, 2019)
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... ADOPTING AND UTILIZING A TOOLKIT FOR OPEN SCIENCE 13 In addition, Lowndes said, there is a need for salaried positions for open leaders to train and mentor research teams. Trainers, mentors, research software engineers, and community managers who participate in this work are often early-career academics supported by "soft money." Increasing the number of salaried positions in this area would allow for increased continuity in these roles and would reduce burnout.
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