The Openness Profile: Modeling Research Evaluation for Open Scholarship (and All Open Scholars)

Open research practices and outputs are increasingly understood as being a collective good—for countries, disciplines, and institutions. However, it has been extremely difficult to balance this with the need to reward the individuals performing the research for sharing and publishing their outputs openly. Over two years, the Knowledge Exchange Task & Finish Group worked with MoreBrains Cooperative Consulting to develop the Openness Profile (OP). The OP is a digital resource, a portfolio of a research contributor's outputs and activities, accessible in a single place. Academic and nonacademic open scholarship activities become visible and more easily recognized. Relying on persistent identifiers to combine existing information with additional (including narrative) testimony of achievements, the OP could become a standard reference model in open research evaluation routine. This poster shows how the OP has been developed, centering researchers and research-adjacent workers in its thinking. We were able to develop its framework by building a community of stakeholders and reaching a common understanding of the need for collective action. The next step, of which this presentation is a key part, is to engage with the wider community and begin to chart the next steps for supporting both Open Scholarship and Open Scholars.