Open Science in university approaches to academic assessment: Follow-up to the 2020-21 EUA Open Science survey

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Summary:

"Our research shows that Open Science is currently given limited consideration in university approaches to academic assessment. However, this report also shows that the importance of Open Science as a strategic priority is increasing, suggesting that its limited role in academic assessment is an issue of practical implementation. Finally, the report points to growing university awareness of the issue and willingness to make changes....

Figure 1 shows that 34% of the 2020-21 survey respondents do not include Open Science practices in their career progression or funding allocation decision processes....

Respondents to the 2020-21 survey who use at least one element of Open Science in their academic assessments mostly confine their attention to Open Access to research publications. Some 77% look at article deposition in a repository, while 49% consider article publication in Open Science journals. Only 33-39% of universities examine Open Access books, science communication activities, depositing data in a repository and open education. In stark contrast, less than 25% of the respondents consider any other kind of research outputs or stages in the research process....

It is important to note that respondents to the 2020-21 survey predominantly understand Open Access to publication “incentives” in financial terms. Various types of financial support for Article Processing Charges (APCs) and other Open Access publishing fees are mentioned by just under a third of the 81 responses to this question.... 

Open Science and Open Access activities are only considered important or very important by 38% of institutions, and 36% considered them as having low importance...."

Link:

https://www.eua.eu/downloads/publications/academic%20assessment%20follow-up%20report.pdf

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Tags:

oa.new oa.open_science oa.universities oa.assessment oa.surveys oa.eua oa.europe oa.incentives oa.hei

Date tagged:

12/17/2021, 10:38

Date published:

12/17/2021, 05:38