Open Research: A 2024 NISO Training Series
Scope
Most professionals supporting or conducting research have heard of various aspects of open science and scholarship. But do we really understand the why of these practices, do we recognize open science and do we understand its diversity? And can we apply knowledge of open science in our own institutional contexts?
Using the research cycle as a framework, this course will help you navigate the open science landscape in lively, information-packed sessions. Sessions will include the following topics:
- research preparation, public engagement and citizen science
- preregistration, reproducibility issues, open code
- open data
- preprints, open access, publication strategies
- open peer review
- metadata and open science in monitoring and assessment
You will learn how all these are applied by researchers and supported by librarians, data managers and other professionals. All sessions combine presentation, demonstrations, hands-on exploration and discussion. You will leave the course with knowledge and insights but also with ideas and inspiration to include open science perspectives and practices in your own role and context.
Training Facilitator
Jeroen Bosman, Open Science expert and Geoscience librarian, Utrecht University
Jeroen Bosman (@jeroenbosman / @jeroenbosman@akademienl.social) is a scholarly communications specialist and geoscience librarian at Utrecht University Library. He is recognition and rewards fellow in the Open Science programme of Utrecht University. He is member of the national project team for revisioning the framework for open access monitoring in the Netherlands.
He is an expert in the field of open science and open access policy, practices and tools, as well as scholarly search engines. His main interests are Open Access and Open Science in all academic fields, scientometrics, research evaluation. He coordinates Utrecht University's participation in DIAMAS, the Horizon Europe funded international project on institutional publishing.
He has 25+ years teaching experience in academic information skills and has led dozens of Open Science workshops, including internationally. He is co-lead of the 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication project that surveys and charts developments in scholarly communication, research workflow tools and practices. He has co-authored numerous publications in the field of scholarly communication, including reports commissioned by VSNU (currently UNL) on publication cultures, by cOAlition S on Plan S compliant publication venues, and by Science Europe on diamond open access journals.
He is an avid advocate for Open Access, Open Science and Scholarly Commons and for applying open principles. All activities are carried out in the open and resulting materials are fully open (CC-BY or CC0) and linked to his ORCID account.
Training Facilitator
Bianca Kramer, advisor, research analyst, facilitator, Sesame Open Science
After having worked s scholarly communication/open science librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years, in 2022 Bianca Kramer moved to independent consulting/research analyst role at Sesame Open Science, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure.
She has investigated trends in innovations in scholarly communication across the research cycle in the project 'Innovations in Scholarly Communication'. She has organized many interactive workshops on open science, including the course 'Scientometrics using Open Data' in collaboration with CWTS Leiden and Curtin Open Knowledge Institute (COKI).
Bianca has (co)authored commissioned reports on a quantitative analysis of publication types in Dutch research outputs, a gap analysis of Plan S-compliant publication venues, the diamond OA landscape, and the comparison of of coverage and quality of metadata for Dutch research output in OpenAlex and OpenAIRE. She has also been involved in developing Open Access monitoring using open data sources in the Netherland and the UK.
Bianca is founding member of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and part of the organizing team of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
She is currently a member of the Preprint Advisory Group of Crossref, and has been on the Europe PMC and Literature Services Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL-EBI, the board of FORCE11, and the EC Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing.
Course Duration and Dates
The series consists of eight (8) weekly segments, each lasting 90 minutes. Specific dates are:
- September 26
- October 3, 10, 17, 31 (No class on October 24)
- November 7, 14, 21
Each session will be recorded and links to that archived recording will be disseminated to course registrants within 2 business days of the close of the specific session. We strongly encourage attendees to download these files to ensure continued access.
Course Structure
Each week will be dedicated to one specific aspect of open research. The session will contain an introduction on the topic, followed by hands-on-exploration by participants (exploring resources, finding examples, trying out). The final part of each session will take the form of a discussion about how the specific aspect of open research can be supported in practice.
Each week, participants will be asked to reflect on opportunities and challenges at their own organization, and think about potential actions to facilitate a specific aspect of open research at their organization.
These ideas will be shared and discussed with the group throughout the course, providing participants not only with knowledge and resources about a variety of open science topics, but also with a range of actionable ideas to apply in an institutional context.
Event Sessions
Thursday, September 26, 2024, Session One: Open science and scholarship in the research cycle
In this first session, various aspects of open research will be introduced. Starting with the ‘why’ of open science - including the values it reflects - and then looking at open science throughout the research cycle. What open science practices do researchers in various disciplines encounter, and what is the role for libraries, research support and university management in facilitating open science?
Thursday, October 3, 2024, Session Two: 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?
Thursday, October 10, 2024, Session Three: Reproducibility and code sharing
How can open science improve reproducibility of research and transparency of the research process? In this session we explore practices such as preregistration, reproducible coding, collaborative coding and sharing and archiving of code, and some of the platforms and tools available to them. We will also discuss uncertainties researchers may face regarding these practices.
Thursday, October 17, 2024, Session Four: Open data
Considered by many as one of the core practices in open research, making data FAIR and open involves many considerations and choices that we address in this session. From data management plans, data privacy and open data sharing to data archives and reusing data.
Thursday, October 31, 2024, Session Five: Open access
Open access is one of the most developed practices in open science. However, there’s still a lot of contention as to what should be the preferred form of open access (or even if there should be a preferred form at all) and how to achieve an equitable distribution of costs and benefits. This session will provide clarity and insights into the various ways ahead, including the increasing role of sharing preprints.
Shared Resource:
cOAlition S Fair Global Pricing: consultation - cOAlition S commissioned Information Power to explore how a globally fair pricing framework for academic publishing could be devised and implemented. The key objective of this project was to identify ways in which readers and producers of scholarly publications or their proxies – research funders and universities – can financially contribute to supporting academic publishing services in a globally equitable and sustainable manner.
Thursday, November 7, 2024, Session Six: Open peer review
Reviewing publications and proposals in an open way can make science more transparent and accountable, and even help with equitability. At the same time, there are legitimate concerns around, for example, the effects of power imbalance. We explore the many dimensions of openness of reviewing, from open reports and open identities to open correspondence and journal independent reviewing platforms.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, Session Seven: Research assessment and metadata
Open science and scholarship asks for research assessment to measure different things - such as societal impact and various types of output shared - and to measure things differently - such as evaluating at project or team level. We explore the possibilities to do this, paying attention to the crucial role of good metadata on research outputs, participants, funding and more.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, Session Eight: Open research, looking forward
In this final session we look at overall conditions for the transition to open science. What are the barriers and motivations for researchers and organizations to change their way of working? And are facilitating (open) infrastructures already in place for all practices and in all disciplines? Finally, can we provide evidence that open science is delivering on its promises?
Additional Information
Registration is non-transferable, and login via this Zoom link is exclusively accessible to the registered individual. As registrants, you can expect to receive a message containing your attendee sign-on credentials three business days prior to the scheduled Thursday session.
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Registrants for an event may cancel participation and receive a refund (less $30.00) if the notice of cancellation is received at NISO HQ (nisohq@niso.org) one full week prior to the event date. If received less than 7 days before, no refund will be provided.
Broadcast Platform
NISO uses the Zoom platform for purposes of broadcasting our live events. Zoom provides apps for a variety of computing devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) To view the broadcast, you will need a device that supports the Zoom app. Attendees may also choose to listen just to audio on their phones. Sign-on credentials include the necessary dial-in numbers, if that is your preference. Once notified of their availability, recordings may be downloaded from the Zoom platform to your machine for local viewing.