Encouraging Open Science Practices in Minority Serving Institutions

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of philanthropic organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs and other forms of scholarship. They believe that open research accelerates the pace of discovery, reduces information-sharing gaps, encourages innovation, and promotes reproducibility.

 The researchers are planning to work with the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) to encourage Open Science Practices among traditionally underrepresented academic institutions. ORFG’s key hypothesis is providing a small amount of funding to such institutions for targeted interventions can kickstart a broader movement towards open science practices. ORFG is in conversation with several funders to support such interventions which could form a part of a larger field experiment testing the value of such funding. The researchers are planning to evaluate a smaller pilot ORFG is running with one funder to disburse about $100k to traditionally underrepresented institutions for Open Science Practices interventions.