Creating a domino effect: what can we all do, however small, to make research more open and reproducible?

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[ ID ] f741b4ce-ac8e-4334-9b78-32a9085dca4d

[ Submitter's Name ] Karolina Mosiadz [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Authorea [ Submitter's Twitter ] @appleandworld

[ Space ] science [ Secondary Space ] badges

[ Format ] demo, learning-lab, fireside, hands-on

Description

Issues related to research transparency and reproducibility are becoming increasingly recognized for their importance in communicating and conducting research. However, practices by most academics could be improved.

Open science initiatives show the desire to change and an increasing number of academics have taken conscious steps to share their research and take a stand against paywalls.

The session will explore the great possibilities that come with open science. Participants will discuss challenges and brainstorm tools and incentives needed to drive a paradigm shift.

Authorea aims to make science more open and reproducible and believes that work should be open-access, linked to data, and easily discoverable and read by machines. Using Authorea's software, we show how researchers can publish and work openly within the confines of the current incentive structure.

During the workshop, the participants will create their own Authorea project and get hands on experience working with the platform.

Agenda

Part 1: The participants will share their challenges with research openness and reproducibility. Part 2: Brainstorming session to explore what can be done in terms of technology and society contributions to open up science. Part 3: Short introduction of the authoring platform (Authorea) and workshop. The theme of the workshop will be decided on the spot depending on the interests of the participants. Part 4: Project presentation and discussion of learnings. Part 5: Main take-outs of the sessions and how they can be applied. Small but effective action points for each participant.

Depending on the number of participants they will work on a project in one big group or a few smaller groups. The project will involve creating a digital journal with interactive data plots and multimedia files. It will simulate an environment of a big research project.

Participants

The formula of the workshop is essentially the same whether there are 3, 15 or 25 participants. We will either have one bigger group (if there are up to 10 participants) or a few smaller ones (if there are more than 15 participants).

Any part of the session can be highlighted and elaborated on depending on the number of the participants and their interests. We will also actively contribute to the discussion and brainstorming.

If there is only one group, instead of having a project presentation, we will opt for an in-group discussion about their learnings and feedback.

Outcome

We would love to see more open source contributions and hope to see the participants share their research and data on Authorea. We introduced an open science collaboration index which helps track the best open science contributors. We are also planning to add open science badges.

Our ultimate goal is to drive a lasting change in academia awarding system and award those that share the most and produce reproducible results.

We will encourage participants to actively contribute, invite their colleagues to the project and share ideas how to increase collaboration and get more people involved in open science.

[mattdigitalme]

Would be interested to hear more about how you're going to add Open Badges - do you want to drop me an email matt.rogers@digitalme.co.uk and we can chat further?

[arlissc]

@mattdigitalme - we are considering this session - where are you with this one and open badges ?

[mattdigitalme]

@arlissc We've spoken to Karolina about running the session in our space, but if you're keen to take it just let me know. I think we'd like to have her speak (about how badges could be used) but wouldn't need to be a full session if you wanted to host that?

[arlissc]

@mattdigitalme - we are full at this point. Are you OK to take this one ? I'll remove my label.