What is this project?

Through ongoing collaboration with the Bay Area Open Science group, UCSF staff have co-created the Open Science Team Agreements Template, a tangible tool for guiding conversations around open science. Designed to be implemented by a research lab or team, the agreements include short descriptions of several open science topics like open access articles, publishing pre-prints, sharing data, open code, and more. This tool encourages teams to learn about the topics that interest them, and then to edit the document to best suit their research goals. Ideally these agreements can serve as a resource when on-boarding new team members and as a built-in accountability measure. The creators hope to introduce more teams to open science through these agreements and help shift the research ecosystem to be more transparent, accessible, and inclusive.

Where can I learn more?

The agreements template is freely available for download on Zenodo and the team encourages feedback!

In what ways does this initiative elevate or highlight NASA's Year of Open Science goals?

The project:

• Establishes strategic approaches for advancing open science.