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Instructions

Communities and collaborators

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Related Initiative

TIER2

Goal

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Duration (hours)

1

For whom is this important?

All stakeholders in research

Steps

1Reproducibility Network Award

2Stakeholder communities

3Primers Inititative

4Consortia Partners

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Reproducibility Network Award

What is a Reproducibility Network?  

A national Reproducibility Network is a countrywide peer-led consortium that aims to improve research practices by promoting, supporting, and investigating factors contributing to robust research including, but not limited to, reproducibility, replicability, and Open Science. Activities may include promoting training activities, disseminating best practices, supporting research on reproducible research practices, and advocacy for reproducible and open research.  

A Reproducibility Network typically serves as a hub to connect researchers to exchange ideas and good practices, promoting collaboration among researchers from a range of scientific disciplines. These networks provide infrastructure, facilitate opportunities for researchers and initiatives to support and amplify each other’s efforts, and foster community building as well as shared problem solving.  

Reproducibility Networks can serve as connectors to other stakeholder groups such as universities, funders, or academic publishers.  

Why an organizations should consider setting up their own seed funding award for new Reproducibility Networks?

• Benefits for setting up an Reproducibility Network?
• Reflections on the TIER2 Reproducibility Network Award

• Resources to set up a Reproducibility Network

Awardess of the TIER2 Reproducibility Network Award

Not sure, if your country has an established Reproducibility Network?

Visit the Global Networks page hosted by the UKRN to find out if a Reproducibility Network already exists in your country: https://www.ukrn.org/global-networks/.  

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Stakeholder communities

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Primers Inititative

The primer initiative from the United Kingdom Reproducibility Network was designed introduce a broad audience to important topics and aspects of open and reproducible scholarship. Each primer is a 3-to-4-page summary document which describes the open or reproducible research practice, why one might be interested in it, and how they can be applied or adopted with thorough guidance. More information on the Primers Initative can be found here: https://www.ukrn.org/primers/ .

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Consortia Partners

TIER2 brings a unique combination of skills and perspectives, consisting of eleven partners from seven countries, well spread across Europe. The partner organisations all bring a wealth of expertise and experience regarding the target communities (computer science, life science, social science), research culture reform, technical aspects of infrastructure and services, as well as expertise in social sciences and humanities, and gender aspects of R&I.  

iRise

iRise aims to deepen understanding of reproducibility drivers, evaluate their effectiveness and provide concrete solutions to enhance scientific evidence.

Their direct objectives are:

- Develop working definitions and a general framework for diagnosing and addressing reproducibility problems, define costs, benefits and opportunities, and assess the utility of theoretical evidence in forecasting the success of interventions.

- Perform scoping and systematic reviews to identify and evaluate existing interventions to improve reproducibility.

- Explore the interface between reproducibility and research culture, and in particular considerations and mainstreaming of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).

- Consult and engage key stakeholder groups in prioritising practices and practical tool development for adoption to increase reproducibility.

- Test efficacy and feasibility of specific interventions to increase reproducibility.

OSIRIS

Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science (OSIRIS) aims to facilitate the shift by systematically gathering knowledge on the underlying drivers, testing effective evidence-based solutions, identifying incentives for reproducibility by stakeholders, and embedding reproducibility in research design.

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