Office for Open Research and Scholarship projects 2024/2025
The Office for Open Research and Scholarship is leading a series of open research initiatives aligned with the new Research Culture Action Plan
Overview
From September 2024, the Office is leading on a series of key open research initiatives aligned with the new Research Culture Action Plan. These include initiatives to support the professionalisation of research data stewards, to understand and increase the visibility of non-traditional research outputs, and to prepare the ground to action the University's commitments to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
Projects
Data Stewards Network
We're launching a Data Stewards Network to increase the visibility and recognition of data stewards across the University. Data stewards from across the University will benefit from an online hub of resources, as well as regular opportunities to meet with other network members, share good practice, and receive relevant training and peer support. The Network will support the recognition of data stewards’ activities and roles, and highlight their vital role in our research and research communities.
Editors and Publishers Network
In partnership with the academic-led Open Research Working Group, we're launching an Editors and Publishers Network to better support University of Sheffield editors, further develop our support and services for open publication practices, and to increase the proportion and forms of our research that are freely available and accessible to all.
Understanding reproducibility in different disciplines
Working with the Open Research Champions, this project will run School-level activities to understand ‘reproducibility’ in different disciplines, particularly as it pertains to research engaged with qualitative, practice, participatory, and multi-modal methods. The projects will enable the Library to build its resource bank of case studies and guidance and to develop our support and services for disciplines who currently feel excluded from ‘open research/ open science’ conversations and practices.
Improving the institutional visibility and external discoverability of non-text research outputs
Working with the Open Research Champions, this project will run School-level activities to surface and understand the different forms of non-text/ non-traditional research outputs created across the University of Sheffield. The projects will enable the Library to build its resource bank of case studies and guidance and to develop our support and services for the preservation and dissemination of different forms of non-traditional outputs.
CRediT: recognising and rewarding all contributors to research
This project will run a CRediT advocacy and adoption campaign to increase both the use of the contributor role taxonomy by Sheffield authors and the diversity of CRediT contributor roles recorded in myPublications. The project seeks to increase the recognition, attribution, and professionalisation of research-enabling staff such as technicians, data stewards, and librarians, and to increase the sharing of workflows, software, data, and other research artefacts.
Open research metrics
This scoping project will prepare the ground to action the University’s commitments to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. This will include developing our open research metrics and being open in our use of metrics.
Contact us
Email: library@sheffield.ac.uk