The Scholarly Publishing Process

  • Understand the institutional, funder, and publisher influences on publishing choices
  • Assess publication venues critically for openness and accessibility
  • Open science values can be embedded in authoring, publishing, and reviewing choices

Open Authoring Tools

  • Authors can use open source tools to write and produce manuscript submissions.
  • The open science community continues to develop workflows for submitting manuscripts to publishers that require proprietary formats.
  • Some journals do accept open source file formats during the initial submission or review stage.

Authorship and Conflict of Interest

  • Authorship in open science includes more than writing; it encompasses many research roles.
  • The CRediT taxonomy provides a transparent way to attribute contributions.
  • Conflicts of interest can bias research and must be disclosed to maintain trust.
  • Open science encourages structured authorship and transparency in conflicts.

Open Peer Review

  • Peer review in its current form can support oppressive systems and policies.
  • Open review comes in different flavors which vary in their openness.
  • These open reviews can both support inclusive science and hinder it if not implemented in a respectful and responsible way.
  • Many of the hindrances to open review are cultural and can be changed over time just as Open Science generally is changing cultural norms in science.