Final Policy Brief

IN PREPARATION

As a significant output of the OPUS project, the Final Policy Brief served as a comprehensive guide to policymakers, science managers, and other institutional leaders, presenting key lessons learnt and policy advice to support the uptake of Open Science practices at the institutional and individual researcher’s levels. This policy brief aims at extracting lessons from the five case studies implementing Open Science Action Plans so as to guide the research policy reform required to support the incentivisation, implementation, and evaluation of open science practices at the researcher level in European institutions.

On this last aspect, the OPUS project developed a Researcher Assessment Framework (RAF) to reward open science practices and expand beyond the criteria of publications in researchers’ career prospects, responding to emerging European and global policy agendas, in particular the UNESCO Recommendations on Researchers and Scientific Researchers (2017) and on Open Science (2021).

The brief also explores the relation between Open Science and incentives/rewards; precarity; gender equality; industry or trust in science, among other lessons from the implementation of Open Science interventions in both Research Performing and Research Funding Organisations in five EU countries.

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The Initial Policy Brief

The initial policy brief presents the preliminary results of the OPUS project, derived from two state-of-the-art studies:
A review of existing academic and policy literature related to researcher assessment and Open Science.
An analysis of current initiatives aimed at improving researcher assessment and supporting Open Science.
These findings form the basis of policy recommendations on researcher assessment and Open Science.

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

The OPUS project developed a Researcher Assessment Framework (RAF) designed to assess researchers in an academic context, with a focus on incentivising and rewarding Open Science. The RAF includes:

Indicators/metrics to assess both researchers and their Open Science activities.
Interventions to support Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) in implementing the RAF.

The framework and interventions have been:

Tested in pilots at partner RPOs and RFOs.
Shared with stakeholders and the research community for co-creation and validation.

The RAF builds on key policy developments and existing frameworks in research assessment and Open Science. It has been developed through close collaboration with key stakeholders in these areas.

Importantly, the RAF is not prescriptive. Instead, it offers a comprehensive, adaptable framework of indicators/metrics, allowing RPOs and RFOs to tailor assessment approaches to their specific organisational needs and interests.

Initial Policy Brief

IN PREPARATION

Final Policy Brief

The Initial Policy Brief

POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

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