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The importance of early career researchers for promoting open research
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Author: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS’ Director of Open Research Solutions
Early career researchers again appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers – as found in PLOS research released as a preprint this week.
At the end of March 2021
PLOS Computational Biologyintroduced a more stringent policy on sharing code associated with articles published in the journal. This was in response to a desire of members of the journal’s community to go further to promote open science, which appears to be reflected in the community at large – determined through collaborative research between PLOS and the journal’s community of editors and researchers.
How can we increase adoption of open research practices?
This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director of Open Research Solutions for PLOS.
Researchers are satisfied with their ability to share their own research data but may struggle with accessing other researchers’ data – according to PLOS research
. Therefore, to increase data sharing in a findable and accessible way, PLOS will focus on better integrating existing data repositories and promoting their benefits rather than creating new solutions. We also call on the scholarly publishing industry to improve journal data sharing policies to better support researchers’ needs.
PLOS has long supported Open Science with our data sharing policy. Our authors are far more likely to provide information about publicly available data compared to journals with less stringent policies. But best practice for data sharing – use of data repositories – is observed in less than 30% of PLOS publications. To help us understand