Openness Profile: Stakeholder Virtual Workshop

As part of our work on Open Scholarship, we are working to raise awareness of the lack of incentivising mechanisms & research evaluation practices for open scholarship contributions, and work towards a possible solution; through development of an 'Openness Profile'.

Part of KE's work on Open Scholarship seeks to enhance the evaluation of research and researchers. This currently does not cover recognition of non-academic contributions to make Open Scholarship work, such as activities to open up and curate data for re-use, or making research results findable and available. Our approach is to raise awareness on the lack of recognition in current evaluation practice and work towards a possible solution, through the development of an 'Openness Profile'. Our ambition is for the recognition of these essential activities to become part of standard research evaluation practice.

The KE Open Scholarship Research Evaluation Task & Finish group works on awareness issues, listing all academic and non-academic contributions that are essential to Open Scholarship and should be recognised when evaluating research. The group also works on the Openness Profile itself, a tool aiming to enable the evaluation of currently ignored contributions that are essential for Open Scholarship. For its development we seek the involvement of various key stakeholders - such as research infrastructure providers, funders and research support managers - and alignment with persistent identifiers - such as DOI and ORCID iD.