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Research Assessment Reform Movements in the Same Room
Date: May 13, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/5Y5X-M612 Make Data Count will be part of a pre-conference event focused on advancing research assessment reform across the Asia-Pacific region. The framing is ambitious but necessary: how do we move toward systems that better reflect the full range of scholarly contributions, while avoiding the unintended consequences that have...
On the ascent and with the summit in sight – Reflections on three years at Make Data Count
Date: May 11, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/CQ98-3H62 By Iratxe Puebla Three years ago, I took on the rewarding challenge of leading Make Data Count‘s work to build the tools, practices, and community needed to drive recognition for data as a primary research output. As I prepare to transition out of the role as Director of...
Data as Scholarship: A Conversation at FORCE2026
Date: May 7, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/2PEK-XM77 By John Chodacki and Kristi Holmes For all the progress around open science, one thing remains stubbornly unresolved: research data is still rarely treated as a first-class scholarly output for tracking and reporting. This limits our ability to reward data contributions in tenure and promotion processes, and it...
The Road to Open Science Requires Making Data Count Better
Date: April 7, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/02AM-ZT31 Image by Scott Edmunds, CC-BY. Post by Scott Edmunds, Make Data County Advisory Group Member. New reports tracking the benefits of Open Science practices such as data sharing have presented inconsistent results, but better scholarly metrics for data and more systematic analysis will make the outcomes and benefits...
DSpace perspectives on open infrastructure, open data and recognition for data
Date: March 31, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/h6aq-cx32 Following our series of interviews with SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we spoke with leaders of DSpace, asking them about their perspectives on the importance of open infrastructure, and milestones for open data and data recognition. Photos (left to right): Bridget Almas; Holger Lenz; Erik Moore; Kristi Park Please...
Typology of Data Uses: A tool to capture consistent, actionable insights into the uses of data
Date: March 26, 2026
DOI 10.54900/37xnm-pg324 This post has been cross-posted on the Upstream blog. Iratxe Puebla, Françoise Genova, Monica Morrison The development of practices and policies in support of data sharing has resulted in a growing number of open outputs being published every year. This has been followed by an increasing interest in...
Community perspectives on open data and data recognition
Date: March 16, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/pha7-2t30 Photos of Jen Gibson, Hilary Hanahoe, Lautaro Matas (left to right). In the second of a series of interviews with leaders from SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we asked about their perspectives on open data. In this post, we present perspectives from Dryad, RDA and La Referencia on milestones...
Community perspectives on open science and open infrastructure
Date: February 27, 2026
DOI: 10.60804/MX4V-7K47 Photos of Jen Gibson, Hilary Hanahoe, Lautaro Matas, (left to right). In the first of a series of interviews with leaders from SCOSS-funded open infrastructure organizations, we asked about their perspectives on open infrastructure for open science. In this post, we present perspectives from Dryad, RDA and LA...
Working together to advance data evaluation: A look back at 2025
Date: December 9, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/zae0-cy06 What if we could measure the reach and impact of open data? This question remains central to Make Data Count and has shaped our 2025 initiatives. Over the past year, we have worked on expanding the data-usage information available to the community and we championed practical ways to...
Data sharing, visibility and evaluation at PLOS: An interview with Veronique Kiermer
Date: December 2, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/71BR-9Z42 Can you tell us a bit about your role at PLOS, and your involvement with open science? I’m the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS and I have responsibility for the Editorial department. PLOS’s mission is to drive open science forward through meaningful changes in publishing. Therefore, open...
Implementing data evaluation: A resource toolkit for institutions
Date: October 27, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/5×77-bq53 Many institutions are looking at their evaluation processes with the goal of making assessment more reflective of the variety of researchers’ contributions and also more aligned to open scholarship. A key area of attention as part of assessment reform relates to the recognition of a diversity of open...
MATILDA: building an open bibliographic database and the role of data in enriching articles for discovery
Date: October 1, 2025
DOI: 10.60804/9qxx-bh58 Didier Torny is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, and the project lead for Matilda, a bibliographic platform built specifically for open science. We spoke with Didier about the project, and their plans to incorporate links to datasets for the articles they index in Matilda. The motivation for Matilda...