Openness

For authors, editors, collaborators and funders, here are my Open Scholarship principles:

Open Access

  1. I will only edit Diamond Open Access collections and volumes
  2. I will not review for any publication that is not Gold Open Access, and preferably Diamond.
  3. My preferred Creative Commons license is CC BY, with a preference for choosing the least restrictive license required for the task
  4. I will foster and encourage innovative modes of peer review, publication, dissemination and scholarship through open access
  5. I aim for 100% Open Access in my peer reviewed journal article publications. Due to the preponderance of transformative agreements applied to hybrid journals, my standards have risen. My preference will always be for Diamond Scholar-led or Library-led venues over for-profit publishers, alternative funding models over transformative agreements, and full OA journals over hybrid. Where not possible, I will publish an overall majority of these publications.
  6. Where this is not possible to publish open access, I seek to a) retain copyright of my work, b) publish a post-print green Open Access copy on a research repository.
  7. I will publish all future books Diamond Open Access; I will not pay Book Processing Charges; and I will only consider publishers that meet these requirements

Open Data

  1. I will make all digital research outputs FAIR principles compliant: findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable
  2. I will create a data management plan for all digital projects, defaulting to the Science Europe template
  3. I will ensure that my research design takes a series of incremental steps towards ambitious open data practices
  4. I will take advantage of freely available open datasets and reward those who make their research freely available
  5. I will create and support initiatives with open software, open data and open access principles embedded at their heart
  6. I will encourage colleagues to follow open data principles

Open Ethics

  1. People, and not publishers, are the arbiters of scholarly rigour and quality. I will strive to make positive change in-keeping with DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research assessment. I will adhere to the decision-making, citation, metrics-based and assessment-based recommendations for researchers in DORA. I am moving towards COARA compliance
  2. I will not make easy decisions that result in my research becoming unavailable to my colleagues and the public
  3. I will cultivate an ethics of care that seeks to build the community necessary for an equitable, non-abusive and scholar-led publishing ecosystem we can all be proud of
  4. I will encourage those who I mentor to challenge themselves and experiment in a safe environment, and assist them in doing so
  5. I will never give publishing advice that I would not implement myself
  6. Just because the publishing environment suits me at any stage of my career, I will not assume that others experience the same privilege