OPEN SCIENCE BADGES What are Open Science Badges

OPEN SCIENCE BADGES

What are Open Science Badges? ● Visual cues to readers that a manuscript has followed open science practices. ● Badges appear on publications along with information about where the “evidence” for them - data, materials, or registration - can be found.

Examples in the wild

Who develops and maintains Badges? ● Badges and their criteria are developed and maintained as a community-driven initiative of COS. ● The Badges committee, a group of researchers and journal editors interested in Badges, developed and maintain the criteria for the badges. more info: osf. io/tvyxz

What are the criteria? ● Persistent path to the data, materials, pre registration, etc. ● Sufficient information for an independent person to reproduce the results ● Other more specialized items. . .

Open Data Badge ● Digitally-shareable data are publicly available on an open-access repository (e. g. , university repository or one at www. re 3 data. org or www. databib. org) ● A codebook is included with sufficient description for an independent researcher to reproduce the reported analyses and results. Data from the same project that are not needed to reproduce the reported results can be kept private without losing eligibility for the Open Data badge.

Open Materials Badge ● Digitally-shareable materials are publicly available on an open-access repository ● Infrastructure, equipment, biological materials, or other components that cannot be shared digitally are described in sufficient detail for an independent researcher to understand how to reproduce the procedure ● Sufficient explanation for an independent researcher to understand how the materials relate to the reported methodology

Preregistered Badge ● A public date-time stamped registration is in an institutional registration system (e. g. Clinical. Trials. gov, OSF) ● Registration pre-dates realization of the outcomes ● Registered design and analysis plan corresponds directly to reported design and analysis ● Full disclosure of results following the registered plan

Who issues Badges? 28 journals! See the full list: osf. io/tvyxz/wiki/

Who endorses Badges?

Do Badges Really Incentivize Sharing?

How to get a Badge: 1. Disclosure --- author provides public statement that they’ve met badge criteria 2. Peer Reviewed --- independent review of author’s public statement and meeting of criteria

What comes next? ● Improve the badge issuing workflow ● Refine integration into peer review process ● Gain adoption of more journals and organizations

Future Directions: Baking Badges

Thank You! Find out more and get involved: cos. io/badges Email: contact@cos. io [Ambassador Name] [Ambassador Title/Affiliation] Ambassador, Center for Open Science