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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...