At the ARMA conference on June 18th, around 80 attendees joined a workshop exploring how open research indicators can help institutions support better research -not just meet REF requirements.
The session shared lessons from six UK Reproducibility Network pilot projects involving 15 institutions and five service providers. These pilots looked at things like open data, FAIR data, pre-registration, and author contribution tracking.
A key point is that monitoring research practices is tough – but essential. The pilots showed that while current data is patchy, there’s real potential if institutions, funders, and service providers work together to improve standards and data quality.
Open research isn’t just a compliance exercise – it’s a path to better, more transparent science.