Open Science in project sharing and publishing

DDLS Research School 19/03/2026

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SciLifeLab Training Hub

Kristen Schroeder, PhD

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How to implement Open Science

The Open Science workflow

Plan &

Design

Collect &

Analyse

Publish &

Spread

Access &

Reuse

Evaluate &

Build

Communicate & Involve

Reuse data from data repositories

Use open-source software for method documentation & data analysis

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Publish preprints

Publish Open Access

Publish all research outputs

Practice Open peer review

Deposit all outputs in open repositories

Use open licensing

Attach persistent identifiers

Add rich metadata

Use responsible research metrics

Adopt qualitative research assessment

Track Open Science contributions

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Share key insights through (social) media

Encourage Citizen Science

Turn research into MOOCs or OERs

Evaluate IP potential

Determine research type

Choose transparent practices

Write a DMP

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Evaluate Open Access publishing options, including their benefits, limitations, and ethical implication
• Explain the current landscape of Open Access publishing, including challenges, inequities, and the implications for research transparency

Publish &

Spread

Workshop structure

• The life of an article and OA in Sweden
• Analyzing Open Access publishing
• Pair discussions
• Black Open Access
• Evaluating Open Access publishing
• Group work & discussion
• Open Peer Review

The Traditional Life of an Article

In 2023, ~90% of publications in Sweden were OA

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From report “The Swedish Research Barometer 2025”, Vetenskapsrådet, 2025. ISBN 978-91-89845-39-8

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So why are we discussing this?

There are different types of Open Access

• Are all equitable?
• Is this system sufficient for both our work and the long tail of science?

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Transformative agreements, and the shifting market

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Fully OA

• Publishing model is shifting
• From: subscription-based (pay to read)
• To: APCs compensate publishers for the costs of OA publishing
• Transformative agreement: instead of subscriptions, institutional libaries pay APCs
• Globally, Sweden and Finland publish the largest share of articles through transformative agreements between libraries and publishers

Figure: Sweden’s coverage of TAs in articles published by Elsevier. From ESAC Initiative Market Watch Report. https://esac-initiative.org/market-watch/

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Sustainability in academic publishing

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Smith, M.; Anderson, I.; Bjork, B.; McCabe, M.; Solomon, D.; Tananbaum, G., et al. (2016). [Final Report]. UC Office of the President: University of California Systemwide Libraries. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8326n305

Figure: Top 20 publishers in Sweden based on market share. From ESAC Initiative Market Watch Report. https://esac-initiative.org/market-watch/

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• APC for one Nature Communications article: €6150.00

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• APC for one Cell Host & Microbe article with 12 month embargo: €9044.00

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Analyzing OA publishing types

Use the first paper you chose for the pre-course assignment (5m)

Find a partner and discuss your answers.

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What was the advantage of this publishing type?

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Can you access the data these papers are based on?

Record your answer in the menti…

(the menti will open in 4 minutes)

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Analyzing OA publishing types

Use the second paper you chose for your assignment (5m)

Find a different partner and discuss your answers.

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Who paid for publishing this article? Research budget, taxpayers, library…

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Could a retired plumber from Borås access the data used to create this article?

Record your answers in the menti…

(the menti will open in 4 minutes)

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Is Black Open Access a relic?

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8/15 Articles in the March 5 edition of Cell were Black Open Access

Science is international – it matters what we do on a global scale

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Evaluate OA publishing types

What barriers and compromises exist in the choice of OA?

Photo by Jack Stapleton on Unsplash

Evaluate OA publishing types

• You are a PI in a lab in South Africa with very little funding for APCs, what strategy would you use to publish?
• You are a postdoc in a highly funded lab at UCLA, who has found a new amino acid in shrimp, and your boss wants to submit to Cell. How would you plan to publish it? Tip: what are Elsevier’s preprint policies?
• You are a PhD student working on a protein crystal structure. A sharky Harvard lab is solving the same structure, how would you plan to publish your findings? Tip: how does scoop protection work?
• You are an editor trying to find peer reviewers for an increasing number of OA articles, how would you manage this?
• You are an early-career PI and your idealistic PhD student wants to publish their work only as micropublications. How would you navigate this?

In groups of 4-5, discuss one or more of the following questions (20m)

Discussion: Evaluating OA publishing types

• You are a PI in a lab in South Africa with very little funding for APCs, what strategy would you use to publish?
• You are a postdoc in a highly funded lab at UCLA, who has found a new amino acid in shrimp, and your boss wants to submit to Cell. How would you plan to publish it?
• You are a PhD student working on a protein crystal structure. A sharky Harvard lab is solving the same structure, how would you plan to publish your findings?
• You are a journal editor trying to find peer reviewers for the increasing number of OA articles, how would you manage this?
• You are an early-career PI and your idealistic PhD student wants to publish their work only as micropublications. How would you navigate this?

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Beyond OA publishing

Some ideas for moving forward…

Open peer review

Best practice in Open Access is to open peer review as well.

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Expert critique of research is important for transparent and open science, as well as establishing public trust.

Open peer review case study – Review Commons

Open peer review case study - mSystems

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Coffee break!

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Module 4 starts 15:15