To sustain the progress of open science, we need reliable ways to track how openness is being adopted and its impact.
OSMI’s WG3 surveyed publishers, repositories, and platform operators to understand how they monitor open science and what support they need.
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🔎 Key findings include:
• 70% of survey respondents conduct open-science monitoring
• Motivations to implement monitoring are primarily policy-aligned
• There are different levels of maturity in practices for monitoring open science outputs and outcomes
• Those not yet monitoring need funding, staff capacity, guidance, standards & better metadata
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OSMI’s WG3 will use insights from the survey to:
✅ document benefits of open science monitoring
✅ offer practical implementation guidance
✅ develop recommendations for indicators to adopt
More info: https://open-science-monitoring.org/monitoring-open-science-by-scholarly-content-providers-2025-osmi-survey-findings/
Extended post: https://upstream.force11.org/monitoring-open-science-survey/
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Open science is gaining momentum, and monitoring its adoption – across research activities and scholarly communications – is essential for its continued progress. To support OSMI’s work on open science monitoring, the OSMI Working Group 3 (WG3) ran a survey of scholarly content providers (publishers and journals, repositories and archives, and platform operators) seeking to ...
Open Sci Monitoring Initiative