OSCoffee: Contributions of open science to research culture – A scoping review
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- Wednesday 5 November 2025
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- An open OSCoffee for anyone to join!
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Contributions of open science to research culture – A scoping review
This talk presents results from a recently completed project on how open science practices contribute to the values of research culture, an emerging but under-researched area of inquiry. Sponsored by Science Europe, the project addresses a growing need for evidence on whether and how open science supports research culture values such as equity, diversity and inclusion, ethics and integrity, collegiality and collaboration, and openness transparency. Through a rapid scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature, our team focused on different open science dimensions (e.g. open access, data sharing, citizen science etc.) and identified the mechanisms through which they have been reported as helping to realise (or not) research culture values such as transparency, autonomy, equity, and collaboration. The review identifies a highly varied evidence base, with both positive examples and unintended consequences. While open science is frequently positioned as a system-wide reform effort that will enhance research cultures, most existing literature is fragmented, with limited focus on longer term cultural outcomes and impacts. By mapping what is known and gaps in current knowledge, this review provides a starting point for more systematic evaluation and monitoring of open science's contributions to research culture, thereby supporting more informed, evidence-based policies and practices across research systems.
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