Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us

“For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) was established to help the community assess the adoption and impact of open science across the research ecosystem and beyond. One of its areas of focus is to understand how content providers are monitoring both open research outputs and the outcomes enabled by open outputs and practices. A recent survey of publishers, repositories, and content platforms shows genuine momentum in adoption of open science monitoring, alongside a diversity of areas of interest and uneven maturity. The survey results reveal that existing approaches are often driven by policy compliance and reporting obligations, with a conspicuous gap between indicators for open objects and evidence for the downstream impact of openness. The findings reveal opportunities to strengthen practices among scholarly content providers through greater methodological alignment and better support for newcomers adopting monitoring practices.”