This past week ORFG Members from Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s | ASAP, Schmidt Sciences, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, had the opportunity to spend time thinking though future visioning, collaborations, and generally celebrating openRxiv as part of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Open Science Meeting 2025. We're excited about the future of preprints and their possibilities!
Open Research Funders Group
Non-profit Organizations
A community of philanthropies supporting open science and open scholarly outputs.
About us
The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs and other forms of scholarship. ORFG explores how research funders can advance open science via policies and practices that increase sharing and collaboration across the global research enterprise. ORFG identifies policies that benefit society by accelerating the pace of discovery, reducing information-sharing gaps, encouraging innovation, and promoting reproducibility.
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External link for Open Research Funders Group
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- open science, research assessment, PIDs, open data, open access, science communication, scholarly communication, funding, research funding, open infrastructure, philanthropy, open scholarship, and open policy
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Open Research Funders Group reposted this
🔓 It’s Open Access Week! Open Access is about more than free, immediate access to research results; it’s about transforming how science is shared and applied. By ensuring that publications and data are openly available, we accelerate discovery, foster collaboration, and break down barriers that can slow progress in fields like #Parkinsons research. At ASAP, #OpenScience is central to our mission. We believe the knowledge generated through research should benefit everyone: patients, clinicians, and scientists alike. That’s why we champion open sharing across our network and collaborate with a global community of researchers and consortia to make openness the norm in scholarly communication. We’re proud to celebrate International Open Access Week alongside our collaborators, including the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Parkinson's Foundation, Parkinson's UK, Cure Parkinson's, Allen Institute, CatalystNeuro, DataSeerAI, DNAstack, DataTecnica, Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), Verily, YLD, AMP® PD, the Open Research Funders Group, and Plan S, whose shared commitment to transparency and accessibility is advancing science for all. #OAweek
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Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR) launched Open Research Beacon, a hub for those in the open community to connect products, projects, and services. It's a great way to find out what's going on in "open" especially if you're a funder. #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenCode https://lnkd.in/gX7e8An5
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Very exciting to see funders pushing for change in how outputs are shared and communicated. Moving towards an interoperable knowledge stack every day. 👏👏👏 Nice work Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Astera Institute, and Gates Foundation!!! #Preprints #OpenScholarship #OpenData #OpenScience
We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done Michele Avissar-Whiting, Prachee Avasthi, Ashley Farley & Open Research Funders Group! https://lnkd.in/eXgqkyv5
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Some scientists aren’t waiting for journals to catch up. They’re showing us what’s next. The Beyond the Journal awards through Experiment Foundation honor those breaking the mold in how science is shared. More details: https://lnkd.in/gteZcbhp Nominate or self-nominate here: https://lnkd.in/gd4_8BsS
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In partnership with the UK Metascience Unit and SSHRC-CRSH, the Sloan Foundation is supporting a cohort of 29 early-career scholars to investigate the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem. The US-based fellows supported by the Sloan Foundation are: 🔹Mel Andrews of Princeton University Evaluating the Epistemic Credentials of AI in Science Evaluation 🔹Kati Kish Bar On, PhD of Boston University The Shape of Intelligence: AI and the Changing Culture of Mathematical Knowledge 🔹Gabrielle Benabdallah of University of Washington Technologies of Reading: From Print Culture to AI-Augmented Science 🔹Benjamin Genta of New York University AI, Similarity, and the Future of Systemic Reviews 🔹Moh Hosseinioun of Northwestern University Funding the Future: AI Changes What Is Science, Who Does It, and How 🔹Siyu Yao of University of Cincinnati Understanding the AI Revolution in Science: An Integrated History, Philosophy, and Metascience Approach For more information, visit the Foundation's website: https://lnkd.in/eGXZ8S4v For the list of all 29 supported fellows, visit: https://lnkd.in/en2y3Q-Q ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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Check out details on new federal publication and data sharing requirements. Search by agency to get the latest on what you need to do to comply & help research results be shared widely. https://lnkd.in/etjii6W3 and https://lnkd.in/ecqX7r7q
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📢 New preprint! In our latest paper (with Bianca Kramer) we examine how different manuscript submission systems (Editorial Manager, ScholarOne, OJS, eJournalPress) impact the level of #openmetadata publishers deposit with Crossref. We find that some systems are better at capturing specific metadata types – but wide differences between publishers using the *same* systems suggest that other factors (policy, priorities) than only technological play a role. We identify four reasons why metadata may not reach Crossref. We hope our analysis will prompt publishers to exchange best practices on workflow improvements and collaborate with tech vendors to address technical challenges in collecting and submitting open metadata to Crossref. 🔗 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eJi8vxAn #OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
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Open Research Funders Group reposted this
✨ Preprint mandates gather momentum ✨ Richard Sever reflects on the new Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) access policy where HHMI investigators, scholars and scientists employed at HHMI’s Janelia research campus must now “make original research articles that represent major contributions from their laboratories publicly available as…preprints”. With this new policy, HHMI is another organization aligning with 'Plan U' which outlines that preprint mandates are the easiest route to universal free access and could stimulate the evolution of scientific publishing and academic assessment. "The new HHMI policy is not just a smart move that ensures immediate, free access to the research it funds but is also a push towards a better scholarly communication ecosystem." We love to see it. 💚 https://lnkd.in/gJUAWSda
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This is a great step forward in increasing funding transparency, and allows funders to track their impact more readily. ✨✨
Chief Program Officer at Crossref. Working to make a difference in open science while transforming community, membership, metadata, and product.
Another new open dataset just dropped! Last time it was affiliations, now it's GRANTS! Here are over 250,000 Crossref grant<>publication matches for your use and pleasure. https://lnkd.in/eFT55ejf * 488 (0.2%) were deposited by a Crossref member as a "finances" or "isFinancedBy" relationship * 2,003 (0.8%) were deposited by a Crossref member as a Grant ID provided in the award number field in funding information (dedicated Grant ID field coming ASAP) * 247,672 (99%) were matched through award number and funder information. Still planning to get these into Crossref's main corpus and API soon, but in the meantime, here is the data for anyone to ingest as they like. Thanks go to Rocío Gaudioso Pedraza, PhD for the context and write-up and to Dominika Tkaczyk and her team for the methodologies and data. More info about the overall Metadata Matching work is here: https://lnkd.in/e7E4tST3