Incentivizing Open and Collaborative Research (ICOR)

Here’s to Stratos, our work together, and the future of Open Science - Stratos As Stratos enters its seventh year, our focus is on synthesis and convergence to bring the ideas and innovations together to maximize progress and impact.

As 2025 draws to a close, we pause to reflect, and consider what's ahead for Open Science in the new year.

#openaccess #openscience #openresearch

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From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR

From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR https://incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from-tools-to-adoption-a-path-to-modular-and-interactive-scientific-publishing/

Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing...

Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...

From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR

Introduction: @tracykteal.bsky.social

Lightning talks:
- @row1.ca: OXA
- Monica Granados: Modular Reuse, Licensing & Attribution
- Jason Priem: OpenAlex: Building the Connecting Layer
- @bluerezz.bsky.social: Innovating on the Connecting Layer

🔗Registration: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...

📣 NEW PUBLIC WEBINAR: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing

📅 December 1st | 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET

Learn the outcomes from a recent meeting that focused on laying the foundation for machine-readable research publishing.

Schedule:

Really inspired by the energy at the @openrxiv.bsky.social Meeting last week — feels like a turning point for preprints and open research. 🌌

Excited to see how this community is connecting data, code, and narrative into something more open, interactive, and alive. 🚀

ORFG Members celebrated @openrxiv.bsky.social at the @cziscience.bsky.social meeting!
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social
and others!

We're excited about the future of preprints!

#preprints #OpenScience #OpenFunders

Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge. But, as we continue to see OS be adopted across the world, it becomes increasingly cl…

The #OpenScience movement aims to transform how scientists work with each other and with society. These shifts pull in different directions — and “scientific cultures” helps make sense of the tension.

NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...

Open Research Beacon Launches New Platform — Open Research Funders Group Open Research Beacon , a community-driven resource catalog of open projects, has launched on a new platform showcasing nearly 100 projects and growing. It aims to connect organizations and individuals...

@icoropen.bsky.social launched Open Research Beacon, a hub for those in the open community to connect products, projects, and services. It's a great way to find out what's going on in "open" especially if you're a funder. #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenCode www.orfg.org/news/2025/10...

Introducing Open Research Beacon | ICOR

Built by ICOR on PubPub Platform with generous funding from SPARC, ORB connects you with up-to-date information about open research projects and their needs.
Explore, give feedback, and submit your project today! 👇2/2
🔗 incentivizingopen.org/2025/10/intr...

Navigating the ever-growing number of #OpenResearch projects is tough. It's easy for projects to fly under the radar.
Good news! We just launched ICOR's Open Research Beacon (ORB)- the searchable, central hub for the global open research movement! 1/2

NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

Democratising funding evaluation can slash the time it takes to deliver a final decision by over 50% - Research on Research A new RoRI study with the Volkswagen Foundation shows how distributed peer review can make funding decisions more democratic

🚀 New study out!

Together with @volkswagenstiftung.de, we’ve tested distributed peer review - a model where applicants also act as reviewers - to see how it compares with conventional panel review: researchonresearch.org/democratisin...

ASAPbio Seeks New Board Members – ASAPbio ASAPbio is seeking several new members for our Board of Directors to support our mission to drive positive change in science communication. Read more about

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance!

asapbio.org/asapbio-seek...

@asapbio.bsky.social
@katiecorker.bsky.social
@iaincheeseman.bsky.social
@ludowaltman.bsky.social

Schmidt Sciences Joins ORFG — Open Research Funders Group The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome Schmidt Sciences as a supporting member. Founded in 2024, Schmidt Sciences brings together the science-focused efforts of Eric and Wendy ...

Please help us welcome @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as the newest ORFG supporting member! 🎉https://www.orfg.org/news/2025/8/4/schmidt-sciences-joins-orfg

#openscience #philanthropy #openresearch #opendata #sciencefunding

Why are indexers unable to see that peer review can be more than a thumbs up or a thumbs down? | DORA Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. At eLife we believe that the conte...

"Who controls the scientific literature?"
New guest blog post by @fionahutton.bsky.social, Damian Pattison and @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social explores the @elife.bsky.social model and the challenges of driving change in scientific publishing.
Read it here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

Excellent work to show alignment with funder preprint policies! Keeping the work going in the #openscience and #openoutput space. #preprints #funderpolicies

A new research communication paradigm | Future of Scientific Publishing Workshop Please provide suggestions/feedback/thoughts in comments A New Research Communication Paradigm Future of Scientific Publishing Workshop Janelia Research Campus | Axon-Dendrite | Dec 10-12, 2024 Organi...

Great to see our workshop report on the future of scientific publishing mentioned in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social. We couldn't invite everyone, but this got the conversation going, we'd love to get feedback from all stakeholders and incorporate more diverse voices: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A screenshot of the paper, titled "Bridging qualitative methods and open research"

My comment about open research and qualitative methods is out! I argue that open research needs to take seriously the notion that "rigour" looks different for different methods and can learn from qualitative traditions. It feels very apt to be at #QMIP2025 for this publication day rdcu.be/evEpk

Systematic problems require large scale systematic solutions: we need convergence - Stratos Scholarly communication doesn’t work well enough for enough stakeholders. But why is that, exactly? What are the root causes? How do these point to solutions?

Like the parable of the elephant in the dark, those of us working #scholcomms point to different issues depending on our role and what parts of the system we touch.

What happens if we turn on lights and examine the complete picture?

strategiesos.org/systematic-p...

#openscience #openresearch

We’ve arrived here, and just in time for #Metascience2025. For those who don’t know us, our goals are to collect data on the impact of open research policies and practices and connect open research to improved collaboration and outcomes. Say hi to @mmmarksman.bsky.social in London to find out more!