Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
252 University of North Texas (142140)
Principal Investigator: Drummond,Christina Jennifer Siroskey
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 8,819
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 2/15/23 - 7/31/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: University Library-Gen
Department, Center, School, or Institute: University Library
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Workshop | Exploring National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
University of Michigan
CFDA Link: NSF
47.070
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Note:
As the volume and practice of open and publicly accessible federally funded research outputs increases, the ability to comprehensively report on the impact and usage of open outputs has become increasingly challenging. Usage and impact data pertaining to a single OA book, article, or dataset is created across a complex array of public and private publishers, publication distributors and aggregators, discovery services and service platforms. Access to comparable, high-quality information is vital to CRIS (research information management) systems, impact reporting, and innovation policy; and is inherent to implementing the Open Research Funders Group vision where open scholarship impact statements are included alongside data management plans in grant proposals and reporting. Yet, compiling usage and impact metrics across public and private repositories, services, and publishers is a time and data-science expertise intensive activity undertaken by individual researchers, universities, libraries, and publishers. While services exist that aggregate and provision publicly available usage data sources (e.g. CHORUS, Crossref, OpenAIRE UsageCounts), challenges are encountered around incorporating commercially derived usage data sources. While the European Data Strategy is fostering “data spaces” to facilitate interoperable, federated, secure data exchange and processing for specific industries, the OA Book Usage (OAEBU) Data Trust effort funded by the Mellon Foundation is exploring the application of this model to the secure, ethical aggregation, provision and benchmarking of public and sensitive, proprietary OA usage generated by commercial publishers and distributors. As OSTP’s August 2022 Memo on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research set expectations that by 2025 OA usage reporting will become a universal requirement for all federally-funded scholarly outputs, scholarly communications stakeholders wish to explore shared cyberinfrastructure requirements to facilitate and reduce data science and infrastructure needed to meet OA compliance and reporting burdens. This proposal requests support to host a facilitated workshop of up to 30 stakeholders before the 2023 Coalition for Networked Information Spring Member Meeting. The workshop will invite international experts and leading scholarly cyberinfrastructures to: a) identify challenges to cross-platform OA usage and impact analytics at scale, b) explore open infrastructure opportunities to improve the FAIRness of usage data, and c) identify what’s needed to scaffold America’s national infrastructure for scholarly output impact reporting in light of the Nelson memo and the European Open Science Cloud Core and Interoperability Framework. Challenges related to public access impact reporting of data, articles, and books will be considered alongside anticipated issues related to complex, expansive digital publications that may include simulations, 3D models, datasets, videos, and other multimedia. Workshop findings will be documented in a report that will be distributed through multiple public repositories. Intellectual Merit Workshop findings will: 1) inform service and technical roadmaps of core infrastructure related to public access impact reporting, 2) surface opportunities for collaboration and efficiencies among infrastructure efforts, and 3) identify potential projects for future research and development. Broader Impacts In bringing together key public-access related usage and impact reporting stakeholders to focus on the efficacy and future of FAIR research impact reporting, this project can identify ways to build economies of scale for institutional reporting while also identifying ethical concerns related to the aggregation and use of scholar-specific impact data in an automated fashion at the global scale.
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