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The following post originally appeared on the Templeton World Charity Foundation blog. It is reposted here with their permission. Emerging policies to better recognize preprints and open scholarship Research funding organizations play an important role in setting the tone for what is valued in research assessment through the projects they fund and the outputs they…

Announcements Reformscape in Full Swing Since its release in January, Reformscape has been serving the research community in providing 230 documents encouraging openness & transparency. New documents and information continue to be added and are always publicly available. Upgrades have also been made to make the platform more user-friendly. You can now search for responsible…

Each quarter, DORA holds a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting for National and International Initiatives working to address responsible research assessment reform. This CoP is a space for initiatives to learn from each other, make connections with like-minded organizations, and collaborate on projects or topics of common interest. Meeting agendas are shaped by participants. If…

Since Reformscape launched on January 30, 2024, we have been very grateful for the community response. This blog post will serve as an ongoing link round-to articles about Reformscape from sources other than DORA. This post will be updated every week that we spot new articles about Reformscape. January 30, 2024 to February 4, 2024…

Washington DC, USA – The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is delighted to announce the launch of Reformscape – a new online resource enabling the global academic community to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse. For years, the traditional way in…

This is part of a series of curated insights for Reformscape, a new tool from Project TARA. The Open University is an interesting example of how changes in assessment can contribute to a broader strategic goal. It also offers inspiration for how to create a participatory change process. Between 2012-2015, the Open University took action…

This is part of a series of curated insights for Reformscape, a new tool from Project TARA. Utrecht University (UU) and Utrecht University Medical Centre (UMC) have been steadily developing policies and practices aimed to reward a variety of academic activities in assessments. Their most recent tool that captured our attention is a set of…