Gjalt-Jorn PetersFeb 24, 2023

The UNESCO Open Science Recommendation was adopted by the UN member states in 2021.

Open Infra is an important part: science should use publicly/community-owned infrastructure and avoid proprietary software and platforms.

This means Open Science requires some switches, eg:

👉 Qualtrics 🔁 LimeSurvey/formr

👉 NVivo/Atlas/MaxQDA 🔁 QualCoder/ROCK

👉 Mendeley/Endnote 🔁 Zotero

👉 SPSS/SAS/STATA 🔁 jamovi/JASP/R

Who would you say share the responsibility for making these changes?

[ please boost! 🙏 ]

🏛️ Universities
37.7%
💰 Funders
30.7%
🧑‍🔬 Individual researchers
27.8%
✒️ Other, please elaborate in a reply
3.8%
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Show threadMarc Kaulisch
@matherion @sarahderijcke I am not entirely convinced. Who pays for software development and has an eye on quality control? Additionally, these software companies have emerged from a need in science that people pay for. I am not sure if your options are true alternatives.
Feb 26, 2023 at 8:13amWeb
Show threadAlastair DunningFeb 26, 2023
@m_kaulisch @matherion @sarahderijcke this is why organisations such as Invest In Open exist. @investinopen - Not to manage everything but to coordinate to help with the long term sustainability challenges. https://investinopen.org/
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Show threadGjalt-Jorn PetersFeb 26, 2023
@alastairdunning @m_kaulisch @sarahderijcke @investinopen Seems like a great organization! 👍
Marc - there are many ways to organize this. Licenses for most proprietary software packages are incredibly expensive, so universities have the funds to pay for this. And the emergence of these companies doesn't mean that these needs require a commercial solution. And companies can also be open core or "SAAS-funded". These options are viable alternatives: several universities use them (incl mine) 🙂
Show threadAlastair DunningFeb 27, 2023

@matherion @m_kaulisch @sarahderijcke @investinopen

Just to follow up on this thread. At TU Delft Library, we made a list of all the infrastructure we use and / or support.

It shows how much work there is for open infrastructures, and how important it is to prioritise this list. Where do we put our efforts first?

https://openworking.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/charting-library-use-of-open-vs-closed-infrastructures/

Charting library use of open vs closed infrastructures

Open Working
Show threadJan VlugMar 1, 2023

@alastairdunning @matherion @m_kaulisch @sarahderijcke @investinopen

Interesting list.

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