Transitioning to Open Science in Research Labs
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Traditional practices in scholarly communication have been useful in protecting the research findings of labs until they could publish. Specifically, methods of data collection, the analysis of data, and the drafting of scholarly products, have taken place in closed systems. Investigators at East Carolina University believe that a partnership between librarians and researchers will help ease the transition from a culture of guarding research findings of labs to a system of shared results. This collaboration is intended to develop a method by which librarians could help researchers make the transition to open science, by documenting barriers researchers will face and offering a structure for addressing key issues. This project will be based in the Human Movement Analysis Laboratory (HMAL) at East Carolina University. The lab is highly productive as evidenced by the publication of more than 20 peer-reviewed and indexed manuscripts in the last two years. Notably, none of the manuscripts or data sets from these projects were open access. A lab research team consisting of a graduate assistant and the director of the HMAL will generate, collect, analyze, and share data related to a health-related research project usinghuman subjects. To accomplish this, the research team will meet with librarians to explore the benefits and barriers of using an open science approach with conventional human movement laboratory methodologies and document this project using the Open Science Framework (OSF) along with other tools like Mendeley and Dataverse. In the second part of the project, we will create and document effective methods that can be established in other labs to promote openness while maintaining necessary confidentiality. After creating an effective method, we will apply for external funding to establish a program to promote Open Science at ECU.
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