NASEM Roundtable Releases Open Science Toolkit

On September 30, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted an event to commemorate the public release of Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices: Proceedings of a Workshop. The toolkit, authored by members of the Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, is primarily intended to assist university leadership, academic department chairs, research funders, learned societies, and government agencies develop incentive structures to properly nurture and reward open research practices. It contains modular elements that can be adapted and adopted for a range of use cases, including language for hiring, tenure & promotion, and grantmaking; primers on good practices for openly sharing articles, data, and a number of other resource types, and an Open Science Success Stories Database, which compiles research articles, perspectives, case studies, news stories, and other materials that demonstrate the myriad ways in which Open Science benefits researchers and society alike. Notably, the National Academies is publishing the toolkit under a CC-BY license. The aim is for this to not only encourage open dissemination and widespread reuse of the resource, but it will also encourage the community to adapt and remix it to suit their open research use cases. The Open Research Funders Group, which facilitates the Roundtable, is available to answer any questions about the toolkit, as well as to help organization interested in applying it. Please contact us to discuss further.