Short abstract:

This session will take the format of a dialogue that brings together insights from the first session of this panel and “Interrogating Openness and Equity in the Data-Centric Life Sciences” (Panel 095). The focus of the dialogue will be on monitoring equitable open science practices.

Long abstract:

Chair: Louise Bezuidenhout (University of Leiden)

Speakers: Ismael Ràfols (University of Leiden), Paola Castaño (University of Exeter), Mariana Pitta Lima (CIDACS, Center  for Data and Knowledge  Integration  for Health – Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz) and Gustaf Nelhans (University of Borås)

In the various recent efforts to monitor open science practices globally and ensure comparability across contexts (OSMI 2024, Hrynaszkiewicz and Heid, 2024), equity and inclusion are mentioned but in a peripheral or circumscribed manner. However, as contributors to the panels have pointed out regarding the conceptualization of open science (Leonelli, 2023) and its monitoring (Ràfols and Bezuidenhout, 2024), these issues are at the core of the challenges of implementing open science. In consequence, it is insufficient to rely only on bibliometric outputs, data and code sharing as criteria of evaluation. Thus, if principles and practices of equity and inclusion are at the core of critical understandings of open science, how to monitor their enactment?

In conversation with the audience, the four panellists will address the following specific questions:

- What constitutes criteria of success for the implementation of open science in the settings in which you conduct research? Which dimensions or properties of research can be monitored to describe these criteria of success?

- What are the roles of the various key stakeholder communities (researchers, infrastructure providers, funders, governmental agencies and non-profit organisations) in processes of monitoring different dimensions of open science?

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