Making open research practice easier for researchers: Insights from protocols.io and the Francis Crick Institute | Advancing Discovery | Springer Nature

"Research data forms the foundation of research, providing the evidence behind published articles. Ensuring all parts of research – methods, data, code, protocols – are open, ensures research can be built upon, used and reused – the result? A more equitable, fairer, and less wasteful research ecosystem.  

It is no secret that Springer Nature is firmly committed to promoting and better enabling open research practice and last year, following a collaborative partnership, protocols.io became part of the Springer Nature family. 

As one of the central platforms available to all researchers, protocols.io, supports open sharing, and since its integration into Springer Nature, many new partners have come on board to explore the impact of integrated protocol development and collaboration can have for their researchers. One such partner is the Francis Crick Institute, who share the goals of advancing open and reproducible science for societal impact. We took the opportunity to sit down with President and co-founder of protocols.io Lenny Teytelman, and Beth Montague-Hellen, Head of Library Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute to discuss open science research practices, current challenges and opportunities as well as what they believe partnerships such as this can achieve. ..."