The Public Library of Science is beginning a project to track open science behaviours across scientific publishing, calling the lack of such data a critical barrier to making meaningful advances in research-sharing.
Plos, the pioneering non-profit open-access publisher founded in 2000, said that its new Open Science Indicator project would measure and report three characteristics of published articles: how many appeared in a preprint format, shared their research data, and made available the computer code underlying that data.
“It’s a really, really important evidence piece that helps us understand what the current state of open science practices is,” said Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, the director for open science solutions at Plos.
