Call for Participants: 5 min Survey on Open Research Practices

[Rima-Maria Rahal]

Dear NOSIs, 

The UK Reproducibility Network has initiated an international survey on open research practices and is looking for participants. Please consider participating and forwarding this call to your networks (co-authorship offered for support with data collection, see below).

You can access the link to the survey here: https://uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ibDSD34iOPWvFI 

Survey Info: Whether or not you are aware of open research practices, experienced in using them, or even deem them to be necessary, your opinion is vital for us to decide strategic objectives at departmental and institutional levels. Specifically, we are seeking to understand awareness of open research practices (e.g., data sharing, pre-registration, open peer review), including personal experiences of their use and their perceived importance for ensuring the efficiency, reliability and reproducibility of research.

This survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete and is voluntary. It is open to researchers from any discipline and all academic staff, researchers and doctoral researchers (Ph.D. level and above). Survey data is completely anonymised at the point of data collection and we intend to use this information to offer guidance and training workshops on open research. The study has received ethical clearance from Brunel University and Aston University. Please note that the survey asks for information about respondents' affiliations and departments. Providing this information is voluntary and data about affiliations and departments will be redacted from the dataset to be shared publicly. However, these data is planned to be shared with the country-specific Reproducibility Network. Individual-level descriptive statistics will be not be run on a combination of demographic variables in an effort to prevent identifiability of individual respondents. 

Co-authorship: Any person who contributes to the data collection process by distributing the survey link and provides feedback and approval on the final draft of the manuscript will be eligible for co-authorship. You will see that co-authors are typically Institutional and Local Network Leads for the RN at UK institutions; for international collaborators, collaborators who help with the survey distribution can become coauthors if they join in leading the distribution. Please complete this spreadsheet to include your co-author details: this is essential as they will not know that you contributed if you do not complete this sheet. For details, please contact Charlotte Pennington at Aston via c.penn...@aston.ac.uk.

For any questions, feel free to reach out. 

Warmest,
Rima 

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Dr. Rima-Maria Rahal

Senior Research Fellow 
Behavioral Law & Economics Research Group | Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 10 | 53113 Bonn | Germany