Quality Assurance in Service of Transparency: A Practice Report from PsychArchives, the Disciplinary Repository for Psychology
Yi-Hsiu Chen, Marie-Luise Müller, Lea Gerhards, Anne Königs, Peter Weiland, Christiane Baier, Martin Kock, Hannah Franke
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), Germany
PsychArchives is a disciplinary repository for psychological science and neighboring disciplines. To ensure the quality of all submissions, PsychArchives implements a comprehensive set of quality assurance measures, containing both manual and automated processes.
Individual researchers can submit their content via a customized submission platform. To populate the repository with content, PsychArchives also cooperates with publishers, conference organizers, and other institutions. A consequence of these two varying ways of ingesting content – individual submission and batch import – is the implementation of two different quality assurance workflows, which nevertheless share the same goal.
This paper will outline how quality is defined when it comes to PsychArchives DROs, and will demonstrate a number of ways in which quality is assured during and after the submission of content to the repository. While this paper aims to present solutions and lessons learned in practice, we also want to highlight some challenges we are still facing regarding the quality management of PsychArchives content. By providing insight into the internal quality workflows of PsychArchives, we aim to shed light on how quality assurance is an essential prerequisite for transparency and reusability of research-related output archived in a disciplinary repository.
The OpenCost project - Using repositories to achieve transparency in the transformation process to open access as part of the science economy
Julia Bartlewski1, Christoph Broschinski1, Gernot Deinzer2, Dirk Pieper1, Bianca Schweighofer2, Colin Sippl2, Lisa-Marie Stein3, Alexander Wagner3, Silke Weisheit2
1University of Bielefeld, Germany; 2University of Regensburg, Germany; 3DESY, Germany
The "openCost" project introduces a standardized metadata schema developed in collaboration with libraries and international experts on publication costs. The schema contains metadata on payments and contracts related to publication, enabling the identification of hidden costs and providing a detailed breakdown of publication costs. The use of well-connected interfaces such as OAI-PMH enables efficient data exchange and harvesting by service providers. This approach not only increases the transparency of publication costs, but also promotes cross-institutional comparisons at national and international level, benefiting both the institutions involved and the funders.
University Research Management and Open Science - an OMEGA-PSIR case study
Łukasz Skonieczny, Henryk Rybiński, Jakub Koperwas
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
This workshop aims to demonstrate how integrating various functionalities into a single system can transform university management and enhance open science promotion and research support. Targeting university administrators, research managers, and academic staff, the workshop focuses on the strategic and practical aspects of implementing an integrated system like OMEGA-PSIR, exemplified by the experience at Warsaw University of Technology.
The workshop will cover a range of topics, including a brief introduction to the integrated system's functions, emphasizing its role as a semantic knowledge base where everything is interconnected. It will delve into the system's basics in the context of university research data management and assess the impact of data integration on open science initiatives and university operations.
Key areas of discussion include techniques for boosting global visibility of university research, enhancing internal processes for project collaborations and partner selection, and optimizing research management and reporting through OMEGA-PSIR. The workshop will also explore efficient resource allocation strategies, including identifying top teams, successful international collaborations, and promising young academic talents, and strategies for fair distribution of research resources.
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