Conference Agenda

The New York University Division of Libraries and NYU Information Technology collaborate to provide repository services for research. Following the launch of a new data repository in 2023, a working group formed to assess and make a recommendation for whether or not to merge institutional repository services into a single platform and service team. This presentation will focus on facilitation: how a team composed of developers, scholarly communication librarians and data curation librarians worked together on this charge.

Dataverse is an open-source repository software that has a community that has continued to grow over the last couple of years. With this community growth, challenges also appeared for the Dataverse community due to the variety of software deployments across countries, domains, and types of organizations, all having different needs and requirements.

To try and find a sustainable way to keep growing while continuing to be a tight-knit community, the Dataverse Sustainability Working Group was established in the Fall of 20231. The mission of the working group is to provide evidence-based, community-reviewed, and consensus-based recommendations on how to sustain and grow the Dataverse community and how to ensure that the Dataverse software will continue to be maintained and developed in a way that benefits the user community as a whole in a long-term perspective in a sustainable way.

During this lightning talk we would like to present the work we’ve done so far, from analyses and stakeholder consultation. The Open Repositories conference offers a timely opportunity to also get the outsider’s perspective on these matters and challenges as well as exchange experiences from other communities that have gone or are going through the same process.

The talk highlights the importance of repositories in the Open Access publishing landscape and addresses the transparency challenges associated with diverse payment models. The authors propose a solution through the OpenCost project, introducing a new "contract" record type with a dedicated metadata schema in repositories. This schema includes cost data and unique identifiers, allowing for the direct linkage of publications to specific contracts. The approach provides a means to transparently track the financial aspects of publishing, offering insights into expenditures for Open Access. By referencing contracts in the metadata, the system accommodates large transformative agreements, enabling a comprehensive overview of costs related to publications at a national and institutional level. This enhancement ensures financial transparency when all data is shared under a free license, contributing to a better understanding of the transformation process in scholarly publishing.

DOAJ sits at the intersection of transparency, community and sustainability. Although primarily an index of gold open access journals, we’re seeing more and more platforms apply to be indexed. Is this the beginning of a blurring of boundaries? If so, what can platforms and repositories learn from our twenty years of experience regarding quality assurance and trust? Our lightning talk highlights five things that might be relevant for the future of repositories and platforms.

At global level, open science is in situation of transition to maximize openness of data and research outputs financed with public funds in repositories, and to ensure this trend is necessary to implement information organization processes to data and research outputs, such as standards, metadata and FAIR principles in order to ensuring reproducibility and sharing those goods on various platforms. The aim of this document is to study some main metadata schemes that are currently used to organize logically and in a structured way Creative Commons Licenses to justify openness of research data, and based on analyzing factors, attributes and features of such metadata schemas foster implement principles of findable, access, interoperability and reusability unrestricted of such resources in repositories. Methodology for this analysis is carried out with methods theoretical and pragmatically, in which factors of open science are analyzed based on specialized literature and to prove assumptions raised carry out a content analysis of implementation of attributes of open licenses based in three main metadata schemas, such as OpenAIRE, Research Data Alliance, Dublin Core. A general conclusion is that organization of research data with metadata will be an element that will create right conditions for data sharing to become a standard.

Data sharing is considered one of the effective practical means to enhance research transparency. Data repositories are pivotal digital infrastructure in fostering this.

But the recognition and practice of data sharing among researchers are generally insufficient. This requires multiple efforts to jointly promote policies, standards, infrastructure service capabilities, and incentive mechanisms.

As a generalist data repository, Science Data Bank (ScienceDB) offers free services to the global community for sharing and dissemination of non-traditional research outputs, such as datasets and codes. To foster the practice of open data, the repository integrates with a variety of external systems, including preprint servers, manuscript submission systems, and data management tools. Through these integrations, Science Data Bank streamlines the data sharing process across diverse research outputs, linking datasets to preprints, manuscripts, and published articles. This proposal outlines the integration endeavors undertaken by ScienceDB and showcases their service offerings.

These integrations have many positive impacts on disseminate the best practice of data sharing and foster the research transparency.

ORCID’s Global Participation Fund (GPF) was developed to remedy current gaps in organisational participation in ORCID, and PIDs in general, in countries that lack capabilities or resources. The GPF is aimed at benefiting organizations in regions that are under-represented, especially in countries with low- and lower-middle-income economies (as defined by the World Bank). In these Focus Communities of the GPF, we aim to provide funds to: i) foster the development of ORCID Communities of Practice, working with local partners who can build understanding and use of ORCID in local contexts; and ii) create and enhance technical integrations to support the realization of the benefits provided by the use of ORCID. Since the launch of the GPF, we have awarded 14 grants in 3 cycles and this lightning presentation will provide an overview of the GPF as well as an update on the awarded projects.