TY - JOUR
AU - Kristijan Armeni
AU - Loek Brinkman
AU - Rickard Carlsson
AU - Anita Eerland
AU - Rianne Fijten
AU - Robin Fondberg
AU - Vera E Heininga
AU - Stephan Heunis
AU - Wei Qi Koh
AU - Maurits Masselink
AU - Niall Moran
AU - Andrew Ó Baoill
AU - Alexandra Sarafoglou
AU - Antonio Schettino
AU - Hardy Schwamm
AU - Zsuzsika Sjoerds
AU - Marta Teperek
AU - Olmo R van den Akker
AU - Anna van't Veer
AU - Raul Zurita-Milla
AB - Despite the increasing availability of Open Science (OS) infrastructure and the rise in policies to change behaviour, OS practices are not yet the norm. While pioneering researchers are developing OS practices, the majority sticks to status quo. To transition to common practice, we must engage a critical proportion of the academic community. In this transition, OS Communities (OSCs) play a key role. OSCs are bottom-up learning groups of scholars that discuss OS within and across disciplines. They make OS knowledge more accessible and facilitate communication among scholars and policymakers. Over the past two years, eleven OSCs were founded at several Dutch university cities. In other countries, similar OSCs are starting up. In this article, we discuss the pivotal role OSCs play in the large-scale transition to OS. We emphasize that, despite the grassroot character of OSCs, support from universities is critical for OSCs to be viable, effective, and sustainable.
BT - Science and Public Policy
DA - 2021-10-01
DO - 10.1093/scipol/scab039
IS - 5
N2 - Despite the increasing availability of Open Science (OS) infrastructure and the rise in policies to change behaviour, OS practices are not yet the norm. While pioneering researchers are developing OS practices, the majority sticks to status quo. To transition to common practice, we must engage a critical proportion of the academic community. In this transition, OS Communities (OSCs) play a key role. OSCs are bottom-up learning groups of scholars that discuss OS within and across disciplines. They make OS knowledge more accessible and facilitate communication among scholars and policymakers. Over the past two years, eleven OSCs were founded at several Dutch university cities. In other countries, similar OSCs are starting up. In this article, we discuss the pivotal role OSCs play in the large-scale transition to OS. We emphasize that, despite the grassroot character of OSCs, support from universities is critical for OSCs to be viable, effective, and sustainable.
PY - 2021
SP - 605
EP - 611
ST - Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices
T2 - Science and Public Policy
TI - Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities
UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab039
VL - 48
Y2 - 2025-03-18
SN - 0302-3427
ER -