Research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, service providers and innovators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Training and skills for open science

research data infrastructure, institutional collaboration, RDM training

The talk will explain the role, activities, and context of the Disciplinary Open Research Data Repositories project run in Poland by the University of Warsaw and its partners. It will focus on the research data infrastructure elements that foster collaboration with other organisations and support the uptake of research data management & FAIR practice within universities and scientific institutes.

The talk will cover the partnership within the Disciplinary Open Research Data Repositories project that aims to develop disciplinary repositories (Macromolecular Xtallography Raw Data Repository MX-RDR and Social Data Repository RDS) as well as agreements with various research performing organisations interested in setting up institutional collections in the generalist Repository for Open Data RepOD.

Key aspects of institutional collaboration will be discussed, such as sharing best practices and knowledge, addressing legal aspects of open science and setting the research data infrastructure mission in the broader research context. Taking into consideration the project aims – improving the quality of the data and metadata and facilitating better use of scientific resources, among others – the talk will also highlight the progress towards sustainable data sharing that can be achieved by increasing the uptake of available services.

The talk will also take into account the situation in Poland: the ongoing development of data management policies. During the implementation of the project (2018-2021) significant changes in the research context occurred as the main funding agency in Poland, National Science Centre, introduced open science policy and mandatory research data management plans. Also, an increasing number of research organizations adopted open access policies.  The motivation for the talk is to share experiences in the development of research data infrastructure and to discuss a framework for building a sustainable collaboration model.

Value added data products/services from open science
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Collective funding models for open infrastructures and services

FAIR data, FAIRification, retrospective FAIRification, Pharmaceutical R&D

The FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) for scientific data management and stewardship aim to facilitate data reuse at scale by both humans and machines. The pharmaceutical industry's research and development (R&D) is becoming increasingly data-driven, yet managing its data assets according to these principles remains challenging. There is currently little empirical evidence concerning how FAIR is now used in reality, what its related costs and benefit are, and how decisions about retrospective FAIRification of datasets in pharmaceutical R&D are reached.

This talk aims to report the results of semi-structured interviews with pharmaceutical experts involved in various stages of drug R&D in seven pharmaceutical companies. The findings identified three main themes of the benefits and costs of FAIRification, as well as the factors that influence the decision to FAIRify historical datasets. The participants noted that the potential contribution of FAIRification to data reusability in several research disciplines, as well as the possibility for cost reductions. Participants, however, still saw implementation costs as a hurdle, citing the need for a significant investment in terms of resources and cultural change. legal and ethical reasons, management commitment, and data prioritization all influenced how decisions were made.

Main contributions of this talk are as follows:

- The findings have important implications for people in the pharmaceutical R&D business who are working to implement FAIR, as well as for outside parties who want to learn more about current practices and challenges.

The main motivation to look forward at the Open Science FAIR The feedback received on this talk at the Open Science FAIR will be extremely helpful for our project. This opportunity will support us to learn more about what others are developing, how our findings may be integrated and shared, and to discuss the most potential needs for the future development

Researchers, research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods Sharing best practices and knowledge, Legal aspects of open science; GDPR and IPR exploitation

Legal issues, data sharing, open research data

Drawing on the legal issues problems and queries expressed by scholars during writing a Data Management Plans (DMP) and uploading research data in an open data repository (The Bridge of Data), this study aims to describe the process of creating Legal Issues Knowledge Hub at the Gdańsk University of Technology Library that will be available at the beginning of 2022. The misunderstanding of legal issues or information gap during Research Data Management (RDM) activities causes tensions and discouragement within academic staff, data stewards and librarian who often are on advising position.

One of the most common activities for scholars is choosing which license (if any) they are supposed to use to disseminate the datasets and code. However, in many cases, resolving the proper license for research data is not enough. On the other hand, many legal doubts are related to the specific scientific discipline and cannot be generalized. Academic staff faces many tensions with a lack of clarity around legal requirements and obstacles, especially due to changes constantly occurred in this area. The increasing researchers' need for understanding and describing conflicting issues (e.g. patenting) results in looking for professional and knowledgeable support at the university.

We resolved to use thematic analysis approach to analysis 75 case studies collected from the researchers represented by several scientific disciplines from three Pomeranian universities. Several dozen legal problems were identified and divided according to the scientific discipline (e.g. chemistry, architecture, economics) and general ones (occurred within all scientific fields).

By analyzing collected data, we enhance our knowledge of legal difficulties in the context of sharing and disseminating research findings (data). Developing the Legal Issues Knowledge Hub will provide scholars with conditions and information to open their research data legally.

Open Science enablers, infrastructures and policies

Sharing best practices and knowledge, Sustaining open science training: people, resources, governance

TRIPLE, Training strategies, Engagement

In the last years, Open Science made a significant headway in European research policy and advocacy. Alongside the benefits of working towards enabling “open by default” in all disciplines, this momentum led to a complex, increasingly crowded and multidimensional landscape of Open Science enablers, infrastructures and policies. Questions of what exactly are we talking about when talking about the EOSC, how to navigate the latest generation of discovery services or whether to find no author-facing-fee OA funding schemes became recurrent points of discussions even among those who are actively involved in implementing certain aspects of the European OS roadmap.

TRIPLE is a H2020 project with a primary aim of developing a discovery platform for SSH. Within TRIPLE, we found it important to dedicate a specific task force to pave the way towards exchange and a shared understanding of the latest European Open Science advancements, filtered by the TRIPLE project perspective. Despite the original intention to address our events only to Consortium members, we decided to open them to the community and to focus on topics which have relevance for specific TRIPLE’s activities and tasks (i.e. the EOSC onboarding), and on services and solutions which are of interest to the whole community (i.e. Open Research Europe , and the EOSC state-of-the-art and objectives).

The presentation will specifically focus on:

• the synergies that have been implemented with the main RIs in the SSH field (OPERAS, CLARIN, CESSDA, DARIAH) and with training coordinators communities (EOSC Skills and Training Working Group, OpenAIRE CoP of Training coordinators, SSHOC Training community, ICDI Competence Center)
• the strategies adopted to a) provide support to TRIPLE members on Open Science and the EOSC via adequate training; b) engage new potential interested audiences in TRIPLE’s events; c) produce FAIR training materials, to ensure their reusability by the general public.

Agenda

Libraries, research administrators, Open Science Infrastructure providers, funders

Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
Value added data products/services from open science

OpenCitations, Scholexplorer, open citation and bibliographic data, bibliometrics

In this lightning talk, we will present ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations, two of the services included in the MONITOR portfolio of the OpenAIRE-Nexus project, a recently-funded H2020 project which aims at bringing in the EOSC several services provided by public institutions, e-infrastructures, and companies to implement and accelerate Open Science. In particular, ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations will feed the OpenAIRE Research Graph with billions of open data regarding bibliographic citations, and can be used to foster transparency and reproducibility of several activities (such as research results and assessment exercises) that were possible, in the past, only through the payment of a conspicuous fee to access proprietary services. ScholeXplorer and OpenCitations – and their tied relation with OpenAIRE, its Research Graph, and the EOSC – represent a new frontier of open citation indexing and can be used to enhance or develop new tools to support authors, researchers, bibliometricians, librarians, funders, academic administrators, research managers, data repositories, publishers, by providing, for example, metrics to monitor research at a given institution and by improving the discoverability of research products such as publications, data, and software.

Researchers from all fields, their employers (universities and research institutes), policy makers and funders

Training and skills for open science
Skills within the wider research context

Early Career Researchers Open science skills Transferable skills

As the employment landscape for Early-Career Researchers (ECRs) is becoming increasingly intersectoral, international, and interdisciplinary, it is important that doctoral programs include training in soft and hard skills that are not only fundamental for research, but are also transferable to other careers. These transferable skills can increase ECRs’ employability, allowing them to pursue different career paths and broaden their options in the academic, governmental, and private sectors. Among others, transferable skills related to Open Science are becoming increasingly important, and they can be acquired with doctoral training. However, as the EOSC Executive Board Skills and Training Group pointed out, several issues still exist. These include a lack of Open Science expertise (particularly in relation to Open Data), varying levels of digital literacy, inadequate media and communication skills, and a lack of centralization of learning and training resources. On the other hand, measuring researchers’ skills and competences is a key first step for the European Commission towards addressing the precarity of ERCs and reducing brain drain. We have reviewed the curricula of two course providers in Open Science, FOSTER and the Open Science MOOC, and have identified a list of transferable skills, classifying them on the basis of learning outcome. Through this classification, we have found that a diverse array of transferable skills are crucial to Open Science education. We foresee a key role of Open Science training and its derived skills in empowering researchers for their career development and assessment.

policymakers, research funders, research performing organisations, academic libraries, research infrastructures

Sharing best practices and knowledge, Skills within the wider research context, Sustaining open science training: people, resources, governance

open science, research data, research data management, scholarly communication, training

Last year, the proposal for a National Open Science Plan in Greece was published outlining the steps that the national stakeholders in Research & Innovation should make. The two OpenAIRE members, “Athena” Research Center (NOAD) and the consortium of academic libraries “HEAL-Link”, have a long standing cooperation in the country. They support each other's work by building the bridges between academia and research, and laying the foundations for the sustainable implementation of Open Science in Greece. In particular, they exchange knowledge and practices on:
- (co-)developing data services that follow best practices to enable FAIRness of data and EOSC compatibility, such as through the Hellenic Data Service “HELIX” and the University data repositories “HARDMIN”.
- promoting skills on Open Science and Research Data Management (RDM) to incubate competencies of researchers as well as to contribute to upskilling and reskilling of the research support workforce.
- providing apt guidance and support in EU framework programme requests, including the COVID-19 calls, via the OpenAIRE helpdesk and the material in Greek language of the Scholarly Communication Unit of HEAL-Link.

Moreover, “Athena” and HEAL-Link both perform activities to draw the bigger picture, in support of informed decision and policy making. For example, the monitoring reports by SCU/HEAL-Link are giving the community the insights to understand the progress of OA publishing in the country. Similarly, the OpenAIRE NOAD collaborates with others and initiates actions that assist in understanding the current challenges and opportunities in R&I, including the EOSC and the COVID-19 crisis.

The lighting talk will provide a detailed update on the actions that the two organisations have taken to promote Open Science in Greece.

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, libraries, research administrators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sharing best practices and knowledge, Responsible metrics and research assessment

European Universities, responsible assessment, transformation of higher education, Open Science, incentives & rewards, European Research Area

Policy initiatives such as the European Research Area and infrastructures such as the European Open Science Cloud include calls for a reform of research assessment, recognition, and reward systems to more strongly reflect Open Science criteria. However, while several frontrunners at national and institutional level are emerging, many universities are reluctant to reform, citing systemic obstacles to changing research assessment.

A potential answer to this collective action problem are the alliances funded by the European University Initiative, which are expected to introduce “academic career systems that support and reward researchers who participate in engaging with society and in a culture of sharing the results of their research, in particular by ensuring early sharing and open access to their publications and other research outputs”.

The EUTOPIA European University – consisting of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE); University of Warwick (UK), University of Ljubljana (SI); Cergy Paris Universite (FR); University Pompeu Fabra (ES); University of Gothenburg (SE) – is implementing a process to reform research assessment based on the INORMS SCOPE Framework for Research Evaluation. Through deliberation about the purpose and methods employed for research assessment, the alliance will develop an overarching framework for research assessment and draft individual commitments to update the individual assessment systems.

The lightning talk will present this change process and the intended impact. The talk seeks to stimulate exchange of experience and collective action across research institutions, universities, university networks and alliances, to accelerate the ‘practical turn’ of research assessment reform and align incentive and reward systems towards Open Science practices.

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, service providers and innovators, EOSC

Interdisciplinary collaborations: Networks, services, methods
Sustaining Open infrastructures, services and tools for research communities
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and FAIR data

RDM best practice, open community development, life-science data

In this lightning talk we will cover the following on RDMkit.

• How RDMkit organises its best practice guidance. Components of RDMkit and entry points.
• The RDMkit approach to achieve FAIR data.
• The RDMkit community and editorial process.
• How RDMkit is integrated into other platforms channeling RDM expertise.

Proper management of research data is increasing its presence in the lifecycle of data-driven investigations. On the one hand, funders or host institutions demand research data management (RDM) by requiring researchers to build and implement data management plans for projects. On the other hand, research infrastructures provide a plethora of RDM support in the form of tools, policies, standards and guidelines. Researchers often find themselves lost in the middle, overwhelmed in their task to take advantage of the available support and to meet the funder demands for RDM.

ELIXIR is a distributed European infrastructure for life-science data. ELIXIR's 23 national nodes have observed recurring RDM challenges for life-science data and the major pitfalls that researchers find themselves in. To address these RDM experts in ELIXIR have combined forces to build RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org), launched in March 2021. For researchers, RDMkit is a one stop shop of information, advice and signposting to research data management know-how, tools, examples and best practice, written by life scientists for life scientists. For data managers, RDMkit is a resource to complement institutional guidelines. For funding agencies and policy makers, RDMkit is a resource that can be included in guidelines. RDMkit is recommended in the European Commission's Horizon Europe Program Guide as the "resource for Data Management guidelines and good practices for the Life Sciences." The RDMkit is an open community with editorially guided content from over 95 contributors.

In this lightning talk we will present how RDMkit organises its guidance, the distinctive aspects that it takes in making life-science data Findable Access Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) and how RDMkit is integrated into other tools and platforms channeling RDM expertise in registries such as FAIRsharing, bio.tools and the TeSS Training portal, and working with ELIXIR's Data Stewardship Wizard decision support tool.