Open Research Funders Groups Joins US Federal "Year of Open Science" Effort

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to collaborate with more than a dozen US federal agencies and departments in promoting 2023 as the Year of Open Science. The Year of Open Science is an opportunity for large-scale actors — governments, funders, universities, international bodies and others — to align incentives, increase training opportunities, and support infrastructure to make open scholarship easier, more rewarding, and scalable. In service of these goals, the ORFG commits to the following specific activities:

  • Engaging with federal agencies to establish common language and policies that create consistent incentives for open scholarship activities such as data and paper sharing

  • Sharing tools developed by the ORFG to make open scholarship easier and more equitable for both individuals and the organizations that support them

  • Supporting the critical infrastructure that enables the sharing and reuse of research outputs at scale

  • Promoting tools and best practices that support the sharing, tracking, and reuse of research outputs, including common standards, open licenses, persistent identifiers, and machine readability of both outputs and their underlying metadata

  • Elevating the importance of including measurement, evaluation, & learning to rigorously assess the impact of open scholarship interventions

  • Convening events that advance open scholarship practices within and across domains, campuses, geographies, and communities

  • Identifying strategies to embed equity and inclusivity in open scholarship programs, initiatives, and activities

Read more about our motivation for participating in this cross-sector effort in our op-ed entitled, “The Stakes Are Too High to Continue Locking Research Away”, and on the NASA Year of Open Science GitHub page.

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