New Outreach Award for Visible Research

Four research groups from SDU’s faculties have been invited to the Open Science Champion Awards, where they will receive a newly established prize.

This award recognizes the groups’ significant efforts to promote open and transparent research practices. The new outreach award focuses on the research groups’ entries in Pure, and knowledgeable staff from the library have developed a metric - OADO: Open Access, Data & Outreach - which forms the basis for selecting the award recipients. Read more about the OADO metric, which underpins the evaluation process.

“We created this outreach award to honor researchers who excel in communicating their research through updates to their Pure profiles. Pure is more than an administrative requirement - it’s a strategic tool that benefits both the individual researcher and the university. By keeping your profile updated, you ensure your research is visible, properly documented, and that the university presents a strong and current research profile,” says Anne Thorst Melbye, Head of the Research Documentation Department at the library.

• The award ceremony will take place on Monday, September 29 at 13:00 in the library’s Atrium Garden, and everyone is welcome.

The new award was created to highlight SDU’s Open Science policy. The University Library of Southern Denmark supports the implementation of SDU’s Open Science Policy across faculties and aims to recognize researchers and research environments that make a special effort to strengthen open science—open access, open data, and open research communication.

• SDU’s Open Science Policy was updated on October 31, 2024, and has been in place since 2018.
• Read more in these articles:
  New SDU Open Science Policy
  SDU’s Open Science Policy Revised – What does this mean for you?
  Both articles are from December 2024 but remain relevant.