Journal practices (other than OA) promoting Open Science goals

Poster presented at meeting "Editorial boards and the transition to full open access" - Utrecht University, October 25 2019

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Journal practices (other than OA) promoting Open Science goals (relevance, reproducibility, efficiency, transparency)

• Early, full and reproducible content
  • preregistration – use preregistrations in the review process
  • registered reports – apply peer review to preregistration prior to the study and publish results regardless of outcomes
  • preprint policy – liberally allow preprinting in any archive without license restrictions
  • data/code availability – foster or require open availability of data and code for reviewers and readers
  • TDM allowance – allow unrestricted TDM of full text and metadata for any use
  • null/negative results – publish regardless of outcome
     
• Machine readable ecosystem
  • data/code citation – promote citation and use standards
  • persistent IDs – e.g. DOI, ORCID, ROR, Open Funder Registry, grant IDs
  • licenses (in Crossref) – register (open) licenses in Crossref
  • contributorship roles – credit all contributors for their part in the work
  • open citations – make citation information openly available via Crossref
     
• Peer review
  • open peer review – e.g. open reports and open identities
  • peer review criteria – evaluate methodological rigour and reporting quality only or also judge expected relevance or impact?
  • rejection rates – publish rejection rates and reconsider high selectivity
  • post-publication peer review – publish immediately after sanity check and let peer review follow that?
     
• Diversity
  • author diversity – age, position, gender, geography, ethnicity, colour
  • reviewer diversity – age, position, gender, geography, ethnicity, colour
  • editor diversity – age, position, gender, geography, ethnicity, colour

• Metrics and DORA

  • DORA: journal metrics – refrain from promoting
  • DORA: article metrics – provide a range and use responsibly