The Open Science Dialogues: Summary of stakeholders round tables

"A key mission of academic research is to generate new knowledge and disseminate it. Since their establishment following the printing revolution, scientific journals have become the primary vehicle for knowledge dissemination. Additionally, in some fields scholars share the results of their work in books and monographs. Recruitment and promotion as well as granting and award committees rely heavily on the publication track record in their deliberations. They look at the number of publications, the prestige of the journal or publisher and the impact of the work as evidenced by how often it is cited or used by others. Research data that is not part of such publications has not been historically broadly shared, though there are shifts in some disciplines enabled by digital transformation, supporting infrastructure and disciplinary culture...."