Working groups

The objective of this working group is to better understand the needs of open science (OS) monitoring as the basis for the future work of the OS monitoring community. The working group will: 

• Map the key stakeholders and beneficiaries to better understand who is impacted by OS and how, and who benefits from it at the international, national, and local levels.
• Explore the scope of OS monitoring and define what should be monitored and why. 
• Identify areas that require quantitative and/or qualitative methods to serve the needs of OS monitoring effectively.

The working group will collaborate closely with the working group on “Understanding the OS Monitoring Landscape”. By aligning the efforts of both groups, a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of OS monitoring can be achieved, facilitating more informed decision-making and planning for the future of OS monitoring.

The goal of this working group is to ensure OSMI’s better alignment with other initiatives in order to promote synergies and avoid the duplication of efforts.

The working group will scan the global landscape for OS monitoring projects, services, methods and tools. 

The working group will collaborate closely with the working group on “Scoping the needs of open science monitoring”. By aligning the efforts of both groups, a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of OS monitoring can be achieved, facilitating more informed decision-making and planning for the future of OS monitoring.

This group aims to support the goals of OSMI by identifying ways in which scholarly content (as defined under “scientific knowledge” in the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science) and its providers can support the creation of solutions that meet diverse open science monitoring needs. Scholarly content providers include scholarly publishers, scholarly and research infrastructure providers (e.g. open archives, repositories), standard-setting organizations, research libraries, research funders, meta-researchers, citizen scientists and others.

The working group aims to develop a collective framework for extracting and sharing essential metadata from scientific publications, such as author affiliation, data use, software sharing, funding, etc. Its main objectives are to:

• Foster the use of state-of-the-art open source tools for extracting information from full text;
• Encourage the sharing of the extracted metadata within a framework consistent with full-text access licenses;
• Meet the considerable computing and storage requirements via resource pooling mechanisms.

The ultimate goal is to create a shared global resource that aggregates this metadata for scientific research, encouraging collaboration to solve problems related to text access, detection methods and resource sharing.