What can X do to encourage Open Science?

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[ Project Lead ] @Daniel-Mietchen
[ GitHub Repo ]
[ Track ] Open Educational Resource: you're collaborating on curriculum or other educational resources, Policy & Practice
[ Level ] Intermediate
[ Timezone ] CEST

Description

Let X be a stakeholder in research - be it a researcher, a research institution, a research funder, a research library, a scholarly journal, a research database, a repo of research-relevant code, a citizen science project, a student, you name it.

My question, then, is what X can do to encourage Open Science, i.e.

• what actions they can take themselves to experiment with open approaches to sharing research
• what actions they can take to signal to encourage others to engage with Open Science.

In part inspired by #36, I have started a number of threads for different X, e.g. What can research institutions do to encourage open science?, and I plan to devote some of my time at the Global Sprint to moving that conversation forward.

Your input would be most welcome.

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[Daniel-Mietchen]

I confirm that I'll be around for about 9am-5pm CEST (i.e. UTC-2) on June 2 and 9am-5pm EDT (i.e. UTC+4) on June 3. Since the project does not necessarily involve coding and already has some web presence (albeit a very basic one), I have not started a GitHub repo for it yet, but might do so, or just contribute to https://github.com/OKScienceDE/Open_Science_101 .