IvOS – Impact of Open Science

Project Description

The opening up of science and the required methods and infrastructures aim to promote the transparency, accessibility, reproducibility and reusability of scientific results and scientific practices. The implementation of Open Science is not a matter of course, but must be anchored in research as part of good scientific practice. The Leibniz Strategy Forum Open Science is committed to supporting and monitoring this strategic anchoring in the Leibniz Association.  

In November 2022, the Leibniz Association adopted its Open Science mission statement "Leibniz Open Science. A mission statement for open research". It thus invites the Leibniz institutions to engage with open science, to make use of the diverse range of dimensions mentioned in the mission statement, taking into account the specific needs and requirements of the subject and institution, and to develop their own strategies on the topic of Open Science. The ‘Impact of Open Science’ project empirically accompanies this initiated process by surveying the current status of the establishment of Open Science at the individual institutes and in different specialist cultures of the Leibniz Association and deriving statements on the effectiveness of the Leibniz mission statement. Based on this, measures will be developed to address and reduce potential obstacles and challenges to the development of an Open Science strategy and to expand and systematically operationalise Open Science monitoring.

A mixed-methods approach with three sub-studies in three work packages is planned for this. Firstly, the institute's own policy documents will be recorded and analysed (work package 1). A subsequent focus group study with Open Science officers from the Leibniz Institutes will provide specific insights into how the policy documents were developed and how the implementation of the Open Science practices described therein is monitored and supported, taking into account the different research cultures (work package 2). A subsequent online survey of the Leibniz Institutes records (future) measures for the strategic implementation of Open Science practices, such as incentive structures and the monitoring of Open Science (work package 3).

Project Objectives

The project results will show which institutional measures the Leibniz Institutes have taken to develop their own Open Science strategy in line with the Leibniz mission statement and how the effectiveness of these measures is assessed.

The findings from the project indicate the effectiveness of the Leibniz mission statement. They also allow us to derive recommendations for any further measures that may be necessary at the community level to bundle efforts to promote Open Science even more efficiently within the Leibniz Association, such as training and further education programmes and a joint dashboard for Open Science monitoring. The latter ties in with the objectives of the EU's Open Science Monitor, which creates incentive systems for researchers to actively practise Open Science by making practices visible. The results of the study can form the basis for establishing structured Open Science monitoring in the Leibniz Association.

Funding

Strategy fonds of the Leibniz Association

Cooperations

• Dr. Kerstin Hoenig, German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE)
• Dr. Tim Höffler, Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)
• Dr. Guido Scherp, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Project Management

• Dr. Tamara Heck
• Verena Weimer

Project Details