The importance of investment in open research infrastructure-NISO Plus

Trillions of dollars are spent annually on research programs. Research funders and organizations recognize the need to link the research that has been funded or received to publications, patents, clinical trials, and other outputs. Several advancements and initiatives are demonstrating progress in making these critical linkages to increase and understand the impact of research across the scholarly publishing lifecycle.

This talk will explore how advances in metadata and open science make it possible to create transparency into outcomes from award to publication and beyond, and why transparency into outcomes benefits the entire research ecosystem.

Led by subject matter experts representing scientific research, data standards, and technology, this panel presentation will explore how constituents across the research ecosystem can identify outcomes – years after a program has concluded as well as trace the arc of their researchers’ work from award to publication and beyond.

NISO Discourse Discussion for this session
https://discourse.niso.org/t/the-importance-of-metadata-and-open-science-on-research-outcomes/599

Machine-readable metadata makes it possible to draw connections between the various stakeholders and phases of the research process from the time a scholar submits their work for peer review through publication. There's just one big challenge — getting that information to "go with the flow" of publishing and remain clean, correct, and complete along the way. And there's a lot to keep up with, from established metadata standards like Persistent Identifiers to new ones under development like the Peer Review Taxonomy. In this session, we'll discuss steps scholarly publishers can take to improve the flow of metadata from the point of peer review, including: How author education can lead to better metadata quality and linking Ways to bridge peer review and production gaps to keep metadata moving forward The potential of digital-first production processes to streamline metadata creation and dissemination and the latest developments

Open Science, as defined by UNESCO’s Recommendation approved November 2021, states it as “an inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society”. The key pillars start with “open scientific knowledge” that includes scientific publications, research data, open-source software and source code, and hardware.

As publishers we have an opportunity, perhaps even an invitation, to better collaborate with scientific data repositories, software development platforms, and hardware manufacturers to consider what the workflows of open science could and should enable for researchers and ways we can help support these efforts.

In this session we will explore the anticipated benefits that Open Science will have on complex cross-domain challenges, bringing more inclusion and equity for researchers in low- and middle-income countries, and encourage more co-design and co-development of research efforts with those impacted by the research outcomes.

NISO Discourse Discussion for this session
https://discourse.niso.org/t/open-science-catch-phrase-or-a-better-way-of-doing-research/602

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) (https://ror.org) is an open registry of research organization identifiers that can be used to enrich metadata for scholarly outputs and enable more efficient tracking of research by institutions. ROR IDs are being integrated into many types of platforms and systems wherever affiliation details are collected and presented. In order for the registry to be a trusted data source, we need to keep records up to date as organizations change over time or when new organizations need to be added. ROR is piloting a unique community-based approach to curating registry metadata as part of a funded project through the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This approach involves leveraging community curators from around the world, building open infrastructure to support updates to the registry, and developing open, transparent, globally inclusive policies and workflows for handling registry updates. In this talk, we will explain how and why we have developed this approach, share the lessons we have learned along the way, and discuss what we will be doing to further develop our infrastructure and workflows to support the usability and accessibility of the registry over the long term.

NISO Discourse Discussion for this session
https://discourse.niso.org/t/curating-a-community-registry-of-research-organizations/592