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Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education

The Open Science (OS) movement is rapidly gaining traction among policy-makers, research funders, scientific journals and individual scientists. Despite these tendencies, the pace of implementing OS throughout the scientific process and across the scientific community remains slow. Thus, a better un...

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Autores principales: Strømme, Christian B., Lane, A. Kelly, Halbritter, Aud H., Law, Elizabeth, Nater, Chloe R., Nilsen, Erlend B., Boutouli, Grace D., Egelkraut, Dagmar D., Telford, Richard J., Vandvik, Vigdis, Cotner, Sehoya H.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542605
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278339
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author Strømme, Christian B.
Lane, A. Kelly
Halbritter, Aud H.
Law, Elizabeth
Nater, Chloe R.
Nilsen, Erlend B.
Boutouli, Grace D.
Egelkraut, Dagmar D.
Telford, Richard J.
Vandvik, Vigdis
Cotner, Sehoya H.
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Lane, A. Kelly
Halbritter, Aud H.
Law, Elizabeth
Nater, Chloe R.
Nilsen, Erlend B.
Boutouli, Grace D.
Egelkraut, Dagmar D.
Telford, Richard J.
Vandvik, Vigdis
Cotner, Sehoya H.
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description The Open Science (OS) movement is rapidly gaining traction among policy-makers, research funders, scientific journals and individual scientists. Despite these tendencies, the pace of implementing OS throughout the scientific process and across the scientific community remains slow. Thus, a better understanding of the conditions that affect OS engagement, and in particular, of how practitioners learn, use, conduct and share research openly can guide those seeking to implement OS more broadly. We surveyed participants at an OS workshop hosted by the Living Norway Ecological Data Network in 2020 to learn how they perceived OS and its importance in their research, supervision and teaching. Further, we wanted to know what OS practices they had encountered in their education and what they saw as hindering or helping their engagement with OS. The survey contained scaled-response and open-ended questions, allowing for a mixed-methods approach. We obtained survey responses from 60 out of 128 workshop participants (47%). Responses indicated that usage and sharing of open data and code, as well as open access publication, were the most frequent OS practices. Only a minority of respondents reported having encountered OS in their formal education. A majority also viewed OS as less important in their teaching than in their research and supervisory roles. The respondents’ suggestions for what would facilitate greater OS engagement in the future included knowledge, guidelines, and resources, but also social and structural support. These are aspects that could be strengthened by promoting explicit implementation of OS practices in higher education and by nurturing a more inclusive and equitable OS culture. We argue that incorporating OS in teaching and learning of science can yield substantial benefits to the research community, student learning, and ultimately, to the wider societal objectives of science and higher education.
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spelling pubmed-97703602022-12-22 Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education Strømme, Christian B. Lane, A. Kelly Halbritter, Aud H. Law, Elizabeth Nater, Chloe R. Nilsen, Erlend B. Boutouli, Grace D. Egelkraut, Dagmar D. Telford, Richard J. Vandvik, Vigdis Cotner, Sehoya H. PLoS One Research Article The Open Science (OS) movement is rapidly gaining traction among policy-makers, research funders, scientific journals and individual scientists. Despite these tendencies, the pace of implementing OS throughout the scientific process and across the scientific community remains slow. Thus, a better understanding of the conditions that affect OS engagement, and in particular, of how practitioners learn, use, conduct and share research openly can guide those seeking to implement OS more broadly. We surveyed participants at an OS workshop hosted by the Living Norway Ecological Data Network in 2020 to learn how they perceived OS and its importance in their research, supervision and teaching. Further, we wanted to know what OS practices they had encountered in their education and what they saw as hindering or helping their engagement with OS. The survey contained scaled-response and open-ended questions, allowing for a mixed-methods approach. We obtained survey responses from 60 out of 128 workshop participants (47%). Responses indicated that usage and sharing of open data and code, as well as open access publication, were the most frequent OS practices. Only a minority of respondents reported having encountered OS in their formal education. A majority also viewed OS as less important in their teaching than in their research and supervisory roles. The respondents’ suggestions for what would facilitate greater OS engagement in the future included knowledge, guidelines, and resources, but also social and structural support. These are aspects that could be strengthened by promoting explicit implementation of OS practices in higher education and by nurturing a more inclusive and equitable OS culture. We argue that incorporating OS in teaching and learning of science can yield substantial benefits to the research community, student learning, and ultimately, to the wider societal objectives of science and higher education. Public Library of Science 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9770360/ /pubmed/36542605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278339 Text en © 2022 Stromme et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Strømme, Christian B.
Lane, A. Kelly
Halbritter, Aud H.
Law, Elizabeth
Nater, Chloe R.
Nilsen, Erlend B.
Boutouli, Grace D.
Egelkraut, Dagmar D.
Telford, Richard J.
Vandvik, Vigdis
Cotner, Sehoya H.
Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education
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title_fullStr Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education
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title_short Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education
title_sort close to open—factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9770360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36542605
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278339
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