Research integrity and Open science - How does Open science support research integrity, and what can young researchers do about it?

Document confidentiel – ne peut être reproduit ni diffusé sans l'accord préalable de Sorbonne Université. Research integrity and Open science NOVEMBER 6TH 2025 MATHILDE DELAUNAY, PHD IN ECOLOGY, TRAINING MANAGER DEPARTMENT « PUBLICATIONS AND OPEN ACCESS », SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ LIBRARY [email protected] How does Open science support research integrity, and what can young researchers do about it? 2 Slides available at: https://zenodo.org/communities/doctoral-training-library/ Research integrity and Open science 3 Session overview Research integrity and Open science 1. HOW OPEN SCIENCE SUPPORTS RESEARCH INTEGRITY 2. ACTIONABLE TOOLS FOR EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS 3. BUILDING A CULTURE OF INTEGRITY OUTLINE OBJECTIVES 1. UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN OPEN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH INTEGRITY 2. GAIN TOOLS AS EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS TO STRENGTHEN RESEARCH INTEGRITY THROUGH THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF OPEN SCIENCE 4 1 HOW OPEN SCIENCE SUPPORTS RESEARCH INTEGRITY Research integrity and Open science 5 “Open science is a set of principles and practices that aim to make scientific research from all fields accessible to everyone for the benefit of scientists and society as awhole” – UNESCO (2022).Understanding open science. UNESCO open science toolkit. Research integrity and Open science Open science: four key pillars 6 Transparency Citizen trust Quality of science Research integrity and Open science Why promote Open science? Research dissemination 7 In France in 2024, expenses for electronic subscriptions reached €130 million across 311 public institutions. At Sorbonne Université alone: €2.5 million in 2024 … and costs continue to rise everywhere! Publication costs Research integrity and Open science Consortium Couperin (2025). Enquête sur les ressources électroniques, données 2024 –Synthèse. 8 Worldwide fairness in access to knowledge Proportion of paywalled full-text articles available (n= 115) for each of the 27 institutions in the study Boudry et al. (2019). Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology. PeerJ, 7: e7850. Research integrity and Open science Access to knowledge is deeply unequal, even among research institutions 9 Citizen trust “March for Science” © REUTERS – BBC News, 2017 Research integrity and Open science Openness is not only a matter of cost or access, it’s also about restoring public trust in science Patients’ associations, environmental activists, journalists… Many actors outside academia are calling for more transparency and accountability in research. They expect science to be accessible, understandable, and trustworthy – especially when it shapes public decisions. 16 Open access: Fairness & transparency Open access is not only about visibility, it’s about fairness and accountability Research integrity and Open science How to publish in Open access? open-access.network (2021). Pathways of Open Access (CC-BY 4.0) Shafee (2020). Typical publishing workflow for an academic journal article with open access sharing rights per SHERPA/RoMEO. Adapted from diagram by Ginny Barbour Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY 4.0) 17 The Green Open access route Research integrity and Open science 18 The Diamond Open access route: Diamond journals Financially supported and managed by universities, foundations, etc. Free publication Research integrity and Open science 19 Reproducibility crisis Nature's survey of 1,576 researchers: More than 70%of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. + Waste of public money Research integrity and Open science Baker (2016). 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature, 533: 452–454. Open data: Reproducibility & honesty Data sharing and transparent methods make misconduct harder, and honest errors easier to detect 20 Zenodo ▪a general-purpose open repository ▪developed within the European OpenAIRE program, operated by CERN ▪each submission is assigned a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for easy citation Research integrity and Open science How to open the data? 21 The principles FAIR logo: SangyaPundir. CC BY-SA 4.0 Image: ANDS. CC BY 4.0 « As open as possible, as closed as necessary » -European Commission Research integrity and Open science 22 Open peer review: Accountability & trust PCI is a collaborative, transparent peer review model Peer review works best when everyone can see the process. Everyone shares the responsibility; transparency builds trust. Peer Community in (PCI) Research integrity and Open science 23 Peer Community in (PCI) Research integrity and Open science 24 Research integrity and Open science Peer Community in (PCI) 25 Research integrity and Open science Peer Community in (PCI) 32 References Research integrity and Open science Baker M (2016). 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility. Nature, 533: 452–454. https://doi.org/10.1038/533452a Beall J (2012). Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature, 489(7415): 179. https://doi.org/10.1038/489179a Boudry C, Alvarez-Muñoz P, Arencibia-Jorge R, ... & Mouriaux F (2019). Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology. PeerJ, 7: e7850. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7850 Briston K (2019). Plan S: how open access publishing could be changing academia. Biomedical Odyssey. Johns Hopkins Medicine. 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