Cultivating Openness: From Community Resources to Institutional Acceptance

"Open community resources are increasingly used to promote open research practices, and are themselves an open practice. They are a powerful way to create shared ownership of a resource and provide agency to add or change them. However, they also present new struggles around embedding them in institutional practice, which we experienced in our own work. In this blog post, we provide our distilled experiences from working on The Turing Way, the Utrecht University Data Privacy Handbook, and the VU Research Support Handbook.

This is a report from our discussion session at the Dutch Open Science Festival, held on 22nd of October, 2024...."