Indicators for Open Research - 15 March 2023

This is a recording of the UKRN online workshop "Indicators for Open Research" held on Wednesday 15 March 2023.

How can institutions baseline, plan and assess progress toward open and transparent research, in ways that respect the diversities across the research system, support good practice and efficiency, and do not encourage unhelpful and invalid rankings? In this workshop, you will hear from a range of initiatives working toward this goal, including PLOS, ScholCommLab, the QUEST Center Berlin, the Finnish self-assessment tool and the new EU-funded GraspOS project, as well as a UK funder and university. The workshop will conclude with a UKRN call for the research community to share views on what priorities we should have in monitoring open research; this will inform pilots in a number of UKRN institutions.

0:00:00 Introduction, UKRN plans, Call for Priorities, next steps - Neil Jacobs (UKRN)

0:06:01 Publisher-led open research indicators - Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)

Open research indicators in the health sciences:
0:21:22 Core open science practices to monitor in biomedicine - David Moher (ScholCommLab, Centre for Journalology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
0:31:28 Dashboard for clinical trial transparency - Delwen Franzen (Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin)

Open research indicators more generally:
0:45:18 Finnish national open science monitoring for institutions - Marita Kari (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
0:59:32 GraspOS (EU project) plans to develop an Open Science Assessment Framework - Janne Pölönen (GraspOS Project and Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)

1:09:00 A funder perspective on indicators for open research: their purpose, limits, opportunities - Rachel Bruce (UKRI)

1:21:58 Considerations on building a framework of Open Research indicators for an institution - Emma Henderson (University of Surrey)

1:37:45 Panel discussion

2:08:20 Call for priorities: what do institutions, researchers, funders, publishers want to have indicators for, and why? Next steps - Neil Jacobs (UKRN)

Read the call for priorities: https://osf.io/59ek3
Respond here: https://forms.office.com/e/J03HERWyvt
Responses are particularly sought from staff and research students at UK institutions, and are welcome before the end of April 2023.

Slides provided are available here: https://osf.io/y2wej/

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