Panel

Made to measure: how do we responsibly monitor and assess Open Science?

16 September 2025| 16:15

81/R-003B - Science Gateway Auditorium B

Moderator

Agata Morka

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Agata Morka serves as the Regional Director of Publishing Development for Europe at PLOS. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Washington, from which she graduated with a PhD in architectural history. She holds additional degrees in culture management. For the past 13 years she has been involved in various projects in open access (OA) academic publishing. She has managed De Gruyter’s OA books programme, worked as Senior Product Manager for OA books at Springer Nature, and as European Coordinator for Open Book Publishers. Her research contributions span several European projects, including COPIM, OPERAS P, DIAMAS, and PALOMERA, focusing on alternative OA models and Open Science policies. She also co-coordinated the Open Access Books Network and advanced open science initiatives as a Communications Specialist for SPARC Europe. Agata is currently based in Berlin.

Measuring What Matters: Rethinking Open Science Monitoring

As Open Science policies multiply, how do we know if they’re working? This panel brings together global leaders to explore emerging frameworks, indicators, and tools for tracking Open Science adoption and impact. From national monitors to institutional pilots, we’ll examine how to move beyond metrics that oversimplify—and toward evidence that informs, includes, and drives meaningful change.

Over the past decade or more, Open Science (OS) has rapidly gained momentum, with thousands of policies and recommendations from national agencies, funding bodies, institutions, and journals intended to foster a paradigm shift toward openness. Despite this enthusiastic embrace of Open Science, the tools and frameworks necessary for knowing whether greater openness is being achieved have lagged behind. Better evidence is needed on the adoption and the effects of Open Science – to inform the development of support services, policies, incentives, and to identify unintended consequences . As a result, we face critical questions: How can we avoid overly narrow or reductive approaches to monitoring Open Science? What frameworks and tools can ensure equity, transparency, and meaningful insights and promote responsible use?
This panel brings together leading innovators and thinkers in OS monitoring. They will offer perspectives on emerging and established initiatives and discuss the opportunities and challenges of monitoring OS practices, processes, and outcomes at various levels—global, national, institutional, and case-specific.
We will hear from the Open Science Monitoring Initiative about their efforts to provide a common, global framework for monitoring Open Science. We will explore new research examining the impact of Open Science practices, via a collaboration between the French Open Science Monitor and PLOS. The UKRN will share insights from their pilot projects to develop Open Research Indicators for institutions.

The session will conclude with an engaging Q&A, inviting the audience to critically examine diverse approaches to OS monitoring, critically examining their strengths, limitations, and blind spots.

Panelists

Laetitia Bracco

Laetitia Bracco is a library curator within the Research Support Mission of the Université de Lorraine libraries, in charge of research data and bibliometrics support services. At the national level, she chairs the research data Working Group of the Couperin Consortium and is the project leader of the French Open Science Monitor on research data and software code. She also co-coordinates the international Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI).

Kirsty Merret

Kirsty Merret has worked at the University of Bristol for 26 years and is the Research Support Librarian lead for research data management. She advises researchers how to manage, store and share research data, and publishes open and controlled access data at the University's repository, data.bris. She is a strong advocate for sharing qualitative data using FAIR data principles and has authored publications on data access and Bristol’s sensitive data processes, and rebooting institutional policies which support Open Science to make them more practical. Kirsty previously worked as the Open Access Administrator, managing Gold OA funds for RCUK/UKRI, and Wellcome. Kirsty works with UKRN to promote Open Science, and delivers workshops for Train the Trainer.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

PLOS

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Director, Open Research Solutions at Public Library of Science (PLOS). He leads a programme of activity to understand and the increase adoption of Open Science practices, and increase the benefits of adopting Open Science. This includes a variety of research activities, Open Science Indicators (monitoring activities), and PLOS’ initiatives to promote preprints, research data sharing, code sharing, and detailed methods sharing.