key_elements.md

Learning Objectives:

LO10a: To understand the needs of different stakeholder groups in scholarly communication, and the impact that Open Science can have on them.

LO10b: To be able to translate your knowledge into an effective program or tool for external engagement.

Key components:

• What does it mean to be an 'advocate' for Open Science.

• Advocating for your own rights as an author.

• The basic steps for achieving local culture change (e.g., Kotter's 8-step change model of management).

• Advocating to your peers, including writing letters and articles advocating for Open Science.

• Talking to journal editors - catalysing the Open Access conversation within your field.

• Talking to policymakers about Open Science.

• Building or joining an Open Science community.

• Effective leadership and training in Open Science, and empowering others to make change.

Who to involve:

• Individuals: Josh Bolick (and colleagues, see the rebuttal article below), Johan Rooryck, April Clyburne-Sherin, Nick Shockey, Joseph McArthur, Heather Joseph, Nicole Allen, Erin McKiernan.

• Organisations: R2RC, SPARC, Creative Commons, IGDORE.

• Other: Country specific advocacy groups (e.g., AOASG, Open Access Nigeria), OpenCon.

Key resources:

Tools

• Why Open Research?, Erin Mckiernan.

• Open Speakers Database, a crowdsourced database of regional experts on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

• Women Working in Openness database, Vicky Steeves.

• Starting Open Projects From Scratch (CC0, Crowdsourced by OpenCon attendees).

• Open Research Advocacy Train-the-Trainer (CC0, by April Clyburne-Sherin).

• Train the Trainer workshop, Allegra Via and Patricia Palagi.

• Leiden University Centre for Innovation toolkit.

• Open Science Leadership Workshop, Mozilla Science Lab.

• Advocating for transparency policies - a toolkit for researchers, staff, and librarians (FSCI2017).

• Advocating Open Access - a toolkit for librarians and research support staff (UCL).

• Making an Impact with Open Science, TU Delft course.

• SPARC author addendum, to help advocate for your own rights as an author with a scholarly journal.

• Open Science course, Puneet Kishoor (CC0).

• Open in order to....

• Academic job offers that mentioned Open Science, Felix Sch?nbrodt and David Mellor.

• The guidebook for Supporters.

• Free our Knowledge campaign.

Research Articles and Reports

• Open letter to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Tennant et al., 2014).

• When will 'open science' simply become 'science'? (Watson, 2015).

• How open science helps researchers succeed (McKiernan et al., 2016).

• How open access is crucial to the future of science (Bolick et al., 2017).

• Open Science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond (Allen and Mehler, 2018).

• A grand challenges-based research agenda for scholarly communication and information (Altman and Bourg, 2018).

• Answers to 18 questions about Open Science practices (Banks et al., 2018).

• A layered framework for considering Open Science practices (Bowman and Keene, 2018).

• Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study (Dawson, 2018).

Key posts

• An early career researcher's view on modern and open scholarship, Laurent Gatto.

• Lingua is dead. Long live Glossa!, Eric Bakovia.

• The Open Access movement and activism for the knowledge commons, Jackie Smith.

• Defending the global knowledge commons, Jackie Smith.

• Racing to the crossroads of scholarly communication and democracy: But who are we leaving behind?, April Hathcock.

Other

• AskOpen Science.

• IGDORE, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education.

• The global benefits of open research, collection edited by Martin Rittman.

• Open Access escape room, Katrine Sundsbø.

• How to be an Open Scientist, University of Camerino

• Berlin Open Science and Reproducible Research Meetup.

• National Open Science Plans:

  • National Plan Open Science (Netherlands).

  • Ciência Aberta (Portugal).

  • Open Science and Research (Finland).

• Open science guides: How universities promote putting it into practice, ZBW Mediatalks.

• Challenges and strategies for the success of Open Science, FOSTER.

• Open science and its advocacy (FOSTER).

• FOSTER Plus: Supporting the practical adoption of Open Science (LIBER).

• Strengthen Advocacy Capacity (PATH).

• OpenCon blog posts from participants.

• Geo for All teaching resources.

• Retraction Watch.

• Tag libraries from the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP):

  • Oa.best_practices; oa.data; oa.ecr; oa.incentives; oa.obstacles; oa.open_science; oa.policies; oa.reproducibility; oa.south; oa.stem.

  • Each one grows in real time; each one is available in HTML, RSS, Atom, and JSONP; each one is open to additions from anyone, and the project welcomes volunteer taggers; there are similar feeds on disciplines (e.g., oa.anthropology, oa.biology, oa.chemistry) and countries and regions (e.g., oa.africa, oa.brazil, oa.china); these are just a few of hundreds of OATP feeds.

Tasks:

• Write a letter to your local political representative about why you think research is important.

  • What do politicians care about? Use this context to empathise with them and deliver your message effectively.

• Send an email to an editor (or editorial board) of a 'closed access' journal in your field to start the OA conversation.

  • Is the journal OA already (or 'hybrid')? How much are APCs for it? Are there any cheaper alternatives they might not be aware of?

• Does your research institute have a magazine, forum, or newsletter? Write a letter/post for it in support of Open Science.

• Draft your own email template reply for requests to peer review about how you only review for OA journals.

  • Re-use/base it on ones out there already. What has worked or not worked so well in the past?

• Outline opportunity costs for your university administrators on role of Open Science in hiring, tenure and promotion guidelines.

  • Outline concrete solutions and benefits Open Science can deliver for current headaches university administrators may struggle with.

• Find your local Open Science advocacy group and volunteer for them!

  • Does one not exist yet? Why not start one! Local groups are a great way to meet like-minded individuals and work together.

  • Having a webpage like Meetup can help keep people engaged and aware of meetings.