At the LU Open Science Days, the Open Science Community Lunds (OSCL) was launched. As part of the launch, we gathered ideas for fostering constructive actions on open science. These actions will be discussed further at the Open Science Community Lund start-up meeting on the 5th of February. Do you want to join the meeting and hear more about the community? Sign up here.
Here are all the actions collected from the participants, in no particular order.
Blue (Researchers and teachers)
- Join the ReproducibiliTea journal club.
- Cite the data you re-use properly!
- Get a DOI for your datasets/metadata.
- Publish open but ethic (avoid hybrid journals).
- Share the movie from yesterday.
- Regulatory switch venues for scientific groups/host new groups to foster new connections + knowledge sharing.
- Pick a Open Science Community Lund sticker and put it on your water bottle.
- Improve communication on other aspects of open science (not only open access and open data)
- Conduct a collaborative assessment to identify optimal IT tools and infrastructures for Open Science practices involving researchers, librarians and IT professionals.
- Integrate education on Open Science in doctoral education.
- Teaching in the lab: Discuss with students how the lab work is connected/related to Open Science, and how we could possibly make it more open (and why).
- Enterprise license for GitHub at LU.
- An award that is given out every year at conferences.
- Organise seminars/workshops to share experiences of Open Science practices.
- Sharing DMPs.
- Helping others: show that [you] understand the concerns of others [such as] confidentiality, commercial aspects, time.
- Connect with people and organizations that promote Open Science, even beyond LU/Lund (follow their LinkedIn/social media or sign up for their newsletters).
- Have regular seminars at your lab/department/division about what groups are doing to use/promote Open Science in their work and share experiences.
- Sharing knowledges and experiences/photos/videos through international network media.
- Focus on science topics itself, e.g. climate change is about climate change – not political interpretation.
- Involve artists in the whole research process – communication starts at the beginning of the collaboration.
- Work with artistic researchers from the beginning.
- What can we do tomorrow/next week?
- Work together with the editors to write the stories
- [Publish in] The Conversation.
- Vattenhallen outreach with PhD students.
- Experiments for kids.
- Faculty of medicine: 3 meetings in one – scientists, nurses, patients (patient organisations).
- Award: reward outreach in a similar way as education: excellent outreach practitioner.
Green (support staff)
- Small workshops within the faculty library team.
- Fine and preforming arts – librarian: a lot of material is available, just time is needed.
- Promote systems like OBLU and OJLU for local open publishing.
- Build open data infrastructures in associations or networks.
- Senior scholars lead by example – contribute time/energy in Open Science projects and publish in ethical venues.
- Start and maintain an online group/slack channel where all can share news, events, questions etc about Open Science.
- Information in international newsletters and on the internal staff web pages.
- Suggest a fellow researcher for a different faculty to comment/discuss tentative results.
- One page infographic with how-to actions to make your research open and FAIR.
- For administrative staff: find actions within your field of work/admin that require less formal approval (probably those actions still need some kind of approval).
- Recognise/promote researchers who follow Open Science practices e.g. in LU blogs or newsletters (or have a dedicated Open Science newsletter that highlight how people are using Open Science practices in Lund).
- Promote Open Source software.
- Training employees for company and governments, sharing data with different organisations.
- Help researchers engage in public outreach – writing popular stories about science, news items, professional journals.
- Include info about Open Science and OSCL in introductions to PhD candidates.
- Create a centralised repository for open source research tools and data.
- Add “I support OSCL” to your e-mail signature.
- Mirjam’s presentation to the LU leadership.
- Interact with PhD students, junior researchers, have workshops/seminars.
- Organize one seminar on open science opportunities as part of the faculty’s research seminar series, recurring every year.
- Open the librarians support practices and give transparency.
- Promote Diamond publishing.
- Long term data storage, standards for data, sharing etc.