Status: This module is currently in development
Rationale
Now that you are an expert at applying Open Science at each step of your research lifecycle, here are some basics on becoming a pro-active ambassador for open scholarship in any discipline. This module will teach you how to effectively engage researchers and other stakeholders in scholarly communication with the various aspects of Open Science.
Learning outcomes
- The researcher will gain an appreciation of, and be able to identify, the diversity of different communities and stakeholders in scholarly communication, and the potential impact that Open Science can have on them.
- The researcher will become an effective leader in Open Science, and use their skills and knowledge to empower others.
- By working either alone or with like-minded colleagues, the researcher will either join or establish a local open science advocacy group or meet-up, and identify concrete action steps that they can take together.
- The research will prepare an open science statement to distribute to administrative staff at their research institute, as well as any other relevant local stakeholders.
- Together with like-minded colleagues, the researcher will start the open access conversation with the editorial board of a relevant journal in their field.
Resources
Tools
- Why Open Research?, Erin Mckiernan
- Open Speakers Database, a crowdsourced database of regional experts on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data
- Women Working in Openness database,Vicky Steeves
- Starting Open Projects From Scratch, CC0, Crowdsourced by OpenCon attendees
- Open Research Advocacy Train-the-Trainer, CC0, by April Clyburne-Sherin
- Train the Trainer, workshop, Allegra Via and Patricia Palagi
- Leiden University Centre for Innovation toolkit
- Open Science Leadership Workshop, Mozilla Science Lab
- Advocating for transparency policies – a toolkit for researchers, staff, and librarians, FSCI2017
- Advocating Open Access – a toolkit for librarians and research support staff, UCL
- Making an Impact with Open Science, TU Delft course
- SPARC author addendum, to help advocate for your own rights as an author with a scholarly journal
- Open Science course, Puneet Kishoor (CC0)
Research Articles and Reports
- Open letter to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Tennant et al., 2014
- When will ‘open science’ simply become ‘science’?, Watson, 2015
- How open science helps researchers succeed, McKiernan et al., 2016
- How open access is crucial to the future of science, Bolick et al., 2017
- Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study, (Dawson, 2018)
Key posts
- An early career researcher’s view on modern and open scholarship, Laurent Gatto
- Lingua is dead. Long live Glossa!, Eric Bakovia
- The Open Access movement and activism for the knowledge ,commons, Jackie Smith
- Defending the global knowledge commons, Jackie Smith
Other
- Ask Open Science
- IGDORE, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education
- Berlin Open Science and Reproducible Research Meetup
- National Open Science Plans:
- National Plan Open Science, Netherlands
- Ciencia Aberta, Portugal
- Open Science and Research, Finland
- Open science guides: How universities promote putting it into practice, ZBW Mediatalks
- Challenges and strategies for the success of Open Science, FOSTER
- Open science and its advocacy, FOSTER
- FOSTER Plus: Supporting the practical adoption of Open Science, LIBER
- Strengthen Advocacy Capacity, PATH
- OpenCon blog posts from participants
- Geo for All teaching resources
- Retraction Watch
- Tag libraries from the Open Access Tracking Project, (OATP)
- Oa.best_practices
- oa.data
- oa.ecr
- oa.incentives
- oa.obstacles
- oa.open_science
- oa.policies
- oa.reproducibility
- oa.south
- oa.stem
- Each one grows in real time; each one is available in HTML, RSS, Atom, and JSONP; each one is open to additions from anyone, and the project welcomes volunteer taggers; there are similar feeds on disciplines (e.g. oa.anthropology, oa.biology, oa.chemistry) and countries and regions (e.g., oa.africa, oa.brazil, oa.china); these are just a few of hundreds of OATP feeds