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6 years ago Participants broke into smaller groups, introduced themselves and discussed the challenges they have faced in researching openly and/or what benefits they have experienced - putting each item on a separate colored post-it note.
- What challenge(s) have you faced to researching openly? [pink or orange post-it]
- What benefits have you experienced? [blue or green post-it]
Barriers/challenges:
- Colleagues against the open science movement
- Protected data can't be uploaded to GitHub
- Requires active challenging of status quo consistently (requires mental energy)
- Falling out of the mainstream, not taken with the same level of appreciation
- Very narrow definition of open!
- Lack of external feedback on my project for 2 years
- Institutional support for proprietary software only
- Disinterest
- Time & money i.e. doing it well needs some effort
- Collaborators not aware of benefit of OS & prevent sharing
- Need to protect intellectual property
- Limited understanding of resources around openness (e.g. CC licenses)
- How to be OPEN as opposed to 'more open' (definitions/scope)
- Convincing my colleagues to work open: data sharing, preprints, etc.
- Data privacy
- Access to science knowledge/new research to people who can't access journals & academic papers (i.e. people who don't work for a university)
- X Journal is the best / that open one is just about a blog - no good!
Benefits:
- Greater confidence in correctness of results due to best process management
- Serendipitous reuse of outputs (data, materials)
- New collaborations
- Grant money
- Encouraged me to explore and learn lots of new technical skills
- Unexpected links
- Easier reproducibility
- Finding jobs
- Community support/review improves code
- Cross disciplinary research/projects e.g. as an artist working with science ideas/research
- Multi-lab replication efforts
- Ability to include the public in ideation, creative process of research
- Better interaction with the community
- Open means others can tell you about mistakes & suggest fixes
- Students get really engaged and excited about open science!
- Learning new skills
This issue will contain the notes from Session 582: What resources do we need to break down barriers to open science? which will need to be turned into a post for the project website.
Many scientific fields are still dominated by closed research practices. It is often difficult to reproduce results and frustrating to build on the research of others. The reasons for this are diverse, but one prominent barrier is a lack of understanding about how to work in an open way.
In this session, participants discussed the barriers to and benefits of open science based on their own experiences. From this discussion, we gained insight into what an open science toolkit for researchers should contain and began compiling resources.
This session aimed to address the why's and how's of open science in order to incentivize and make it easy for researchers to open up their workflows.
Session objectives:
Session slides