Pilot projects are planned in 14 institutions that are members of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), to explore the potential and value of indicators of open research to inform how those institutions plan, implement and evaluate their support for open research. The views of both institutions and individuals in the UK academic research sector were sought, to establish which aspects of open research should be priorities for monitoring in those pilots.
A total of 29 responses were received, which identified 83 discrete priorities. The results of that exercise were that the following aspects of open research were prioritised:
• Sharing research data
• Sharing research software
• FAIR research
• Open Access to publications
• Open research beyond publications
• The use of persistent identifiers
• Metadata and technical standards
• Links across the scholarly record
• Pre-registration
• Reward and recognition
• Training and awareness
• Equality, diversity and inclusion
Some of the priorities are on technical infrastructure, which may also enable the other priorities, and there are existing principles and initiatives informing open infrastructure.
The pilot institutions reviewed this list and selected a sample of the priorities as likely to be the focus of those pilots. These were around research data sharing, pre-registration and recognition and reward
