Bosman and Kramer Open Research: A 2024 NISO Training Series, Session Two: Preparing open research"

This presentation was provided by Jeroen Bosman of Utrecht University and Bianca Kramer of Sesame Open Science, during the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "Open Research." Session Two: Preparing open research," was held on October 3, 2024.

1. Open
Research
NISO training
fall 2024
session 2:
Preparing
open research

October 3, 2024
Facilitated by Bianca Kramer & Jeroen Bosman
https://tinyurl.com/NISO-fall2024-session02

2. Course goals and structure
Course Goals

●Learn what open research
entails and why one should
pursue it
●Explore practices and tools,
getting insight into how these
are implemented and used
●Discuss open research
policies and how to support
open research in practice
Each week’s structure:

Review previous week:
●20 min short recap, share actions

Session topic
●25 min ‘what’ and ‘why’ (lecture)
●25 min ‘how’ (hands-on activity)
●20 min support, monitoring, policy
(discussion)

Home assignment

3. Recap session 1: Open science and scholarship in the research cycle
Verifiability &
Reproducibility
Efficiency
Transparency &
accountability
Relevance &
stakeholder
involvement
Types of support
Develop policies
Advise, advocate
Direct support
Inform, indirect support

Open to
participation


Open to
(re)use


Open to
the world

4. Session 1 - Home assignment
Before our next session, please
check the website of your own
organization.

What kind of information is
given on open science, in what
kind of contexts?


Please share in
what sense your
findings differ from
that of the previous
speaker.

5. Session 1 - Home assignment
Before our next session,
please check the website of
your own organization.

What kind of information is
given on open science, in
what kind of contexts?

6. Session 1 - Home assignment
Before our next session,
please check the website of
your own organization.

What kind of information is
given on open science, in
what kind of contexts?

7. Session 2: Preparing open research
How can researchers build open science into their
proposals, research goals and research designs and
publication strategies?

Which open science principles can they commit to
and what are consequences in terms of funding,
equitable participation, collaboration, licenses and
software used?

And how to involve societal stakeholders, including
citizen scientists, in setting research priorities?

How to determine an impact strategy that fits
open science goals?
preparation

8. Session 2: Preparing open research
preparation
So, related to their goals, in the preparation phase
researchers make choices around:

●Topics
●Design
●Funding
●People
●Impact
●Sharing


Important to do at the start, but can always revisit
along the way

9. Session 2: Preparing open research
preparation
pre-registering
studies
involving
'stakeholders' in
drafting research
proposals
giving everybody
access to the
infrastructure
(even wet lab)
looking for
research partners
in the Global
South
crowdsourcing
research topic
prioritization
????????????
??????

10. funderresearcher /
institution
stake-
holder
Stakeholders’
priorities in solving
issues (e.g. NGOs,
patient groups,
governments)
Which questions/topics are relevant?
- according to funders, stakeholders, researchers

11. Read this whole story here:
https://www.wiley.com/network/researchers/people-in-research-interviews-inspiration/what-inspired-me-to-pursue-a-career-in-research-one-ecrs-story
Which questions/topics are relevant?
- according to researchers

12. Who’s involved: citizen science

13. From: Open Scientist (2013) The Levels of Citizen Science Involvement - Part 1
•Involvement levels: continuum from data
delivery/crowdsourcing to participatory science

•Involve public in agenda setting, making the
research relevant to society

•Generate trust and understanding of how
science works

•Status of volunteers in sharing/publishing?

•Openness: is citizen science open by default?
Independent
Who’s involved: citizen science

14. Who’s involved: patient participation
Source: Hatching Ideas Lab: Public engagement (all rights reserved)

15. Funding
Kč
€
£
$
₨
元
₽
₹
عر
¥

16. Funding - grant requirements and opportunities
source: ASAP / Kristen Ratan, ICOR meeting 20241002

17. Funding - grant requirements and opportunities
Accepts preprints
in funding applications
Has funded replication
studies
And also: requirements and opportunities for citizen science, patient
participation, societal outreach activities?
Funder publication platforms
and preprint servers

18. Sharing and dissemination strategy

19. Classic model: where will I publish, with a strategy for maximum
prestige and ‘impact’ based on Impact Factors or publisher brand

versus

OS model: when and how will I release/share, with a strategy based on
early interaction, collaboration and societal impact
Impact and dissemination strategy:
classic vs. open

20. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]

21. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]
As my/my team's publishing goal is to ...

22. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]
As my/my team's publishing goal is to ...
... we intend to publish these ...

23. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]
As my/my team's publishing goal is to ...
... we intend to publish these ...
... at these moments ...

24. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]
As my/my team's publishing goal is to ...
... we intend to publish these ...
... at these moments ...
... while trying to ...

25. Sharing and dissemination strategy:
[WHY]
[WHAT]
[WHEN]
[HOW]
[WHERE]
As my/my team's publishing goal is to ...
... we intend to publish these ...
... at these moments ...
... while trying to ...
... using these platforms/venues:
Interactive tool: https://tinyurl.com/publishing-strategy

26. Choose to explore either the open science context in funding or publication
strategies:

Funding
•Check funders’ policies: what aspects of open science do they require / support?

Sharing and dissemination strategy
•Try out the online tool: how could it help researchers (re)consider their
publication strategy?

Exploring tools and practices

27. Choose to explore either the open science context in funding or publication strategies

Funding
●Go to one of the funding break out groups. Group size is 4 maximum. Start with filling
group F1, 5th person goes to F2 etc. If you end up alone in a group you may add
yourself as a fifth person to a group
●Visit grant (policy) pages of research funding organizations, e.g. BMGF, NIH, ASAP,
EC, or others
●With your group try to find as many different open science related grant
requirements/policies/opportunities from funding organizations as possible; share
tasks by visiting different organizations
●Create your group’s list of results.
Exploring tools and practices: activity instructions

28. Choose to explore either the open science context in funding or publication strategies

Publication strategy:
●Go to one of the publication strategy break out groups. Group size is 4 maximum. Start
with filling group P1, 5th person goes to P2 etc. If you end up alone in a group you may
add yourself as a fifth person to a group
●Have one person in the group open and screenshare the publication strategy tool:
https://tinyurl.com/publishing-strategy
●Take a moment to look at the overall structure of the tool
●Start choosing/ticking a few publication motivations in the WHY column
●Note any suggestion getting highlighted in the other columns and note the narrative that
builds up automatically
●Proceed from left to right through the columns, ticking options that you deem important;
follow (or ignore) the highlighted suggestions
●Discuss the value of starting with the WHY instead of the WHERE
Exploring tools and practices: activity instructions

29. Discussion: policies and support
Open science context in funding
Publication strategy

30. Inform,
indirect
support
Direct
support
Advise,
advocate
Develop
policies
e.g.:
Info on website,
in LibGuides etc.,
curate metadata,
manage repo etc
Training, answering
questions, providing
workshops
Evidence based
opinions on what is a
good choice, what is
important and why
Co-develop policies
on open science
aspects or
information strategy
asks
for:
Knowledge,
organizing
information,
reliability
Communication skills,
expertise, listening,
ability to inspire
Setting priorities,
knowing patronʼs
goals, disciplinary
knowledge, vision,
ability to convince
Authority, role being
accepted by partners,
strategic thinking
Types of open research & education support

31. Home assignment
Before our next session, formulate one or
more potential actions at your organization
to facilitate ‘preparing open research’

These can be things that are being
considered already, or fully new ideas.

Try to use the SMART rubric - identifying
actions that are specific, measurable,
achievable, relevant and time-bounded.

Formulate actions along the lines of:
“[Actor] will [action] for [audience]”






For example:

“The research support office will create an
overview of open science requirements of
funders relevant to researchers at the
faculty of X”

“The library will organize a workshop for
PhD students to discuss publication
strategies’

32. Open
Research
NISO training
fall 2024
session 3:
Reproducibility
and code sharing

October 10, 2024
Facilitated by Bianca Kramer & Jeroen Bosman
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