In September 2024, the 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators was held in Berlin. The conference theme: ‘Into the great wide open?’ was explored in a wide variety of presentations, posters and panel discussions. Topics ranged from reforming research assessment, researcher mobility and policy impact to bibliodiversity, data sharing and researcher mobility, and much more. You can read more in the recently published STI conference proceedings. 

One of the conference’s sessions was dedicated to scoreboards and dashboards, and how these dashboards can be used for monitoring trends and developments in Open Science. It is well known that Open Science practices differ across scientific disciplines and communities and that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist. Monitoring models, such as these dashboards, should be flexible and always provide context, for example, regarding how the data used for the visualizations in the dashboard was collected.

The Open Science Dashboard for the Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin has been developed as part of the BUA OS Dashboards project and the BUA OS Magnifiers project. The dashboard includes metrics on the share of Open Access publications for the three different institutes within the Department of Earth Sciences, the types of Creative Commons licenses being used and the number of Persistent Identifiers utilized for identifying non-journal-article-output (e.g., books, book chapters, conference abstracts etc.). 

You can read more about the data collection and enrichment processes, the dashboard’s use within the community, and the planned dashboard metrics in our paper:

Duine, M., Iarkaeva, A., & Hübner, A. (2024, November 15). Initiating discipline-specific Open Science Monitoring with the Open Science Dashboard for Earth Sciences. 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024), Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14170751