Conveners
Session 6: Research Evaluation and DORA
- Frank Scholze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
As a global research foundation, the Wellcome Trust is committed to ensuring that the outputs of research (including publications, datasets, software and materials) can be widely accessed and used in ways that will maximise the benefits to health and society. We are a long-standing champion of open access and research data sharing, and established a dedicated Open Research team in 2017 to...
In this presentation I will introduce the idea of the variety of perspectives on OA, and what it means in terms of policies undertaken. OA publishing has been mostly considered as a more or less defined process, whereby the various types of OA formats play a role in the monitoring and rewarding of OA publishing , against toll access publishing. In this presentation I will introduce the idea...
In recent years the open access movement has broadened into a movement for open science, which aims not only to improve exchange between researchers but to strengthen the links between academics and the societies of which they are an integral part. However, progress towards this goal has been slowed by the tenacious roots of our established forms of research assessment, which place great...
Research evaluation drives the culture and practice of research. It provides a framework for how researchers think about what they do and the values they prioritise. It also affects the behaviour of other actors in the system, such as publishers. Open metrics and campaigns such as the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) are fundamental to the process of scientific communication and...
