SDUB wants to monitor the Open Science Policy implementation across all faculties and to reward their efforts in relation to open science considering their open access, open data and and open outreach outputs. We plan to give five awards in total, one per faculty, to the research unit with the highest open science output in their faculty during the past year.
To do so, we have created an indicator to measure the degree of Open Science conducted by a research unit called the OADO indicator (Open Access, Data & Outreach). We decided to apply the OADO indicator to the research units of a faculty (smaller groups, similar discipline-specific methods, traditions and codes of conduct ) because the values seem to be more normally distributed in relation to applying it directly on the researchers or the departments of the faculty.
OADO = a (Open Science in research publications + FAIR datasets) + b (Open Science in communication publications)
(the weights a and b can be adjusted, we have set a=1 and b=0.6 giving more emphasis on research)
w-OADO = Weighted-OADO for the unit under consideration in relation to the rest of the unit's peers.
We have done this to:
- provide the opportunity to assess research units on a metric they have the opportunity to influence and directly control by opening up their research and communication outputs;
- be able to provide a comprehensive overview of a researcher unit's openness in relation to their "peers" meaning other research units in the same field, so that it is a fairer comparison than between widely different disciplines (via w-OADO);
- increase awareness of and incentive to practice Open Science, as well as incentive to register outputs in Pure, as this is where the OADO is calculated from.
Research units are pulled from the local CRIS system Pure which is synchronized with the personnel data system HCM that is managed by the departments, in which research units are created and employees are registered under them. We then calculate the w-OADO for all units (created directly under the departments) in relation to their faculties. A publication or a dataset can be affiliated with more than one research units and in these cases, they are included in each of these calculations.
The existing research units included in the OADO calculations cover 89% (n:2557) of the total number (n:2880) of VIP employees with at least one counted research output included in the OADO calculations. The remaining 11% are VIPs who are either registered under a department or a faculty in the HCM system (and consequently in Pure), and not under any research units. This is the case specifically for the faculty of the Humanities, where the OADO coverage for “ Institut for Kultur- og Sprogvidenskaber” is 14% and for “Institut for Design, Medier og Uddannelsesvidenskab” is 23%.