Open Science Organizations

This page collects some information about open science organizations together with a brief description, their motives and goals, and the services they offer.

Coalition S

cOAlition S is an organization built around "Plan S", a committment to make all articles written on publicly-funded research Open Access, effective immediately. You can read more on the cOAlition S about page and on :memo: Plan S.

• The 🔻 🏢 Coalition S preamble is the founding document of the coalition, with all considerations made when creating it plus its goals.

COARA

COARA, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, is an organization striving to reform the methods for research assessment in accordance to ➰ Open Science principles.

In particular, they aim to find methods to reward all types of research outputs, not only publications and patents.

COARA is a coordinated group effort divided in 📰 COARA National Chapters and 📰 COARA Working groups. The COARA Website is the access point of all resources for the COARA initiative.

• Stakeholder may sign the "⭐ 📝 COARA - Full text agreement" in order to participate. It defines concrete goals, such as the creation of action plans.
  • What are Action Plans and published COARA action plans on Zenodo
  • 📝 🔻 COARA - See Annex 4 of the full text for useful practical tools and options to consider when dealing with research assessment: Annex 4 of the full text agreement
  • A list of all signatories of the agreement is available in the signatories page of the COARA website
• Origins of COARA:
  • The COARA funding document by the European commission: :office: :closed_book: European commission report - 2021 - Towards a reform of the research assessment system
  • 🏢 📕 2021 - Outcomes of proceedings, on research evaluation;
  • 🏢 📕 2018 - Commission Recommendations on access and preservation of scientific information
  • 🏢 📕 2022 - Outcomes of proceedings, on research evaluation;

COARA and the force behind it has produced some changes:

• 📰 The ERC abandons the Impact Factor
  • 📰 Additional information
• 📝 Making FAIReR assessments possible
• 🍪 📰 University of Uthrect rejects current university ranking standards
• 📰 Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions
• 📰 Sorbona ditches WOS
• 📰 DORA case studies on the implementation of alternative metrics
• 🔨 Reformscape, an overview of ongoing changes and policies in research evaluation. Works a bit like a search engine.

Alternative metric sources, detached from canonical publishers and publishing in general are crucial for COARA. Here are a few tools and resources built for that regard:

• 🔨 Leiden Open Ranking, for the scientific performance of universities, publication-centric.
• 🔨 Open Alex, a non-profit organization that indexes publications. Similar to Elsevier's Scopus and Clarivate's Web of Science, Open Alex is an open, transparent replacement.
• 🔨 Open Citations provides a public, free index of citations (which papers cite which) for bibliometric and research purposes. It is chiefly useful for other applications that query its underlying knowledge graph (e.g. through SPARQL).
• 💬 The benefits of Open science are not inevitable: monitoring its development should be value-led
• 📕 ⭐ 🔻 OPUS - Reforming research assessment, on alternative indicators and metrics of researcher performance
• ⚫ PathOS and the :hammer: PathOS indicator handbook
• 📕 🏢 🔻 European commission - Indicator frameworks for fostering open knowledge practices in science and scholarship

Miscellaneous resources on the reform of research evaluation:

• ▶️ 💁 🇮🇹 Open Science Cafe' - Riforma della valutazione della ricerca
• 📄 What we talk about when we talk about research quality. A discussion on responsible research assessment and Open Science
• 📰 Revisiting the metric tide
• 🇮🇹 💬 Qualita' o formalita'?, an italian document on the European research assessment reform.